Athletics Day tomorrow (Thursday 26th October)

Athletics Day



Tomorrow, Thursday 26th October is our Year 5-8 Athletics Day out in Beckenham Park.

At 9:40am all classes will be heading out to the East Hub Inner Courtyard (in front of the office) to listen to instructions for the day and for a Jump Jam style warm-up. All students will then walk out to Beckenham Park and head to their first rotation, for a start time of 9:55am.

Families are welcome to meet us on the park at 9:55am. We will be finished by 3:00pm. At 3:00pm all children will walk back to their hubs and be released to go from there.
In our earlier communication regarding the start time, we said to meet at 9:30am, this has now changed to 9:55am.

Children are to come to school tomorrow with the following:

  • Comfortable P.E / athletics gear or their house t-shirts if they have one
  • Comfortable running shoes or sneakers (the children may run in bare feet or wear socks that are taped to their feet)
  • Sunhat
  • Waterbottle
  • Sunscreen - It would be a good idea to apply sunscreen before school and we will have sunscreen available to apply throughout the day
  • Warm jacket or jersey (school jacket is great)
  •  Lunch, more food than usual may be helpfual as the children will be on the go all day  
Please do not use the lunch-online service tomorrow, if possible.


Please see below for the run-down of the day and a map of the field.


9 year olds
10 year olds
11 year olds
12 year olds
13 year olds
9:55 - 10:40
Shot Put
High Jump
Sprints
Discus
Shot Put
10:40 - 11:00
Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:45
Sprints
Discus
High Jump
Shot Put
Sprints
11:45 - 12:30
High Jump
Shot Put
Discus
Sprints
High Jump
12:30 - 1:15
Lunch
1:15 - 2:00
Discus
Sprints
Shot Put
High Jump
Discus
2:00 - 2:45
Sprint Finals
2:45 - 3:00
House Relay
Adults Verses Children Relay


The long jump will be held at Hillview Christian School on Friday 27th October. We will be leaving school to walk down to Hillview School at 1:30pm, for a start time of approximately 1:50pm, returning to school for 3:00pm.

The long-distance races will be held at Hillview Christian School on Wednesday 1st November.  

The postponement date for the Athletics day is Monday 30th October.

Warm regards,
Gayle & Jenny.

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