Children from Years 1-3 participated in four weeks of tennis coaching sessions this term, run by MacKillop 2009 graduate, Joshua Grace. The children were excited to learn skills with Josh each week, and thoroughly enjoyed his sense of humour.
The main focus was on developing the fundamental movement skill of 'striking'. The students also learned different grips, practised forehand and backhand shots and improved their ability to rally with a partner.
Australian International athletes, visited the College last week as part of the Champions 2 Country 2017 South West regional tour.
The aim of the tour has been to motivate students and aspiring athletes to reach for goals which were out there and targets they could aim for.
The Primary Athletics team went to Bunbury on Thursday 19 October to compete in the SWPSA Athletics Carnival at Hay Park. Forty-one students represented our College in their year level for a range of track events as well as jumps and throws. The College competed against five other Catholic and Independent schools in Group 2, with a total of twelve schools from the South-West region attending this year’s carnival.
The Perth Scorchers Bus visited the College last Wednesday to give students the opportunity to have a go at playing cricket.
Facilitated by the South West Cricket Development Office, the sessions gave students a chance to try out the sport, with the aim of promoting cricket to ages 7-12.
The activities continue the College’s primary sports program of refining fundamental movement skills to develop specific skills used in organized games such as cricket.
With the College Equestrian Team performing so well at the WA Inter Schools Championships in April, both Annabel Creek and Katie Shepherd were selected for the WA Inter Schools Equestrian Team following the competition, although Katie will unfortunately be unable to attend.
On Wednesday 14 June a team comprising of Year 9 and Year 10 boys competed in the ACC Schoolboys Cup at Hay Park in Bunbury. The annual football carnival saw our boys compete against teams from Bunbury Catholic College, Mandurah Baptist College, Mandurah Catholic College, and Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School.
On Thursday, 22nd June the St Mary MacKillop College girls and boys hockey teams travelled to Bunbury to play against three other schools in the ACC Hockey competition for the South West.
Our boys’ team knew they would be facing a challenging day, with half the team made up of Year 7 and Year 8 students.
When the salmon were biting around Busselton during April, little Ember Jensz was in amongst it, breaking a national game fishing record in her wake.
Confirmation has recently come in that the Pre Primary student at St Mary MacKillop College now holds both the state and national Australian Small Fry Female Record for Salmon caught off a 3kg line.
Last Friday 16 June, Years 3-6 competed in cross country races, while students from Kindy to Year 2 participated in a Fun Run to raise money for the College P&F.
The Year 6 House Leaders took the whole campus through a warm-up, and a little ‘YMCA’ got the children moving and in the mood to run.
The Year 5 and 6 students represented our College at the South West Primary Schools Association (SWPSA) Winter Sports Carnival on Thursday 8 June, at Hay Park in Bunbury. Students chose to participate in hockey, netball, football or soccer in teams against other schools, on what turned out to be a gorgeous winter’s day with sunny blue skies.