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:
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 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 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.
Gayle & Jenny.