Senior Swimming Carnival “Swim Meet”

This year, our senior swimming carnival will look different to previous years.

Changes are essential to the organisation of the swimming carnival, due to mandatory swimming safety risk management measures as specified by the Department of Education. Unfortunately, this means participation events cannot be offered.

• This year, the “Senior Swim Meet” will be for students who are turning 10, 11 or 12 in 2025 who are aspiring for district level swimming.
• The Swim Meet will be held on Wednesday 4^th December at the Yeronga Park Memorial Pool.
• Student swim times from the swimming lessons earlier this year will be used for nominating students for the competitive 50m races.
• Swimmers will have an opportunity to check this list from today and into next week to confirm their qualifying swim time and can speak with Mr Bateman if they see a discrepancy with their swim time.
• Students invited to participate in the Swim Meet competitive event will be required to be at school at 8:45am on Wednesday 4^th A consent will go home via Qparents next week. 
• The Swim Meet begins at 9am, and finishes approximately 1:00pm with the relay and gift.
• Students in years 5 and 6 who are not competitive swimmers, will be invited to attend the swim meet from 10am to cheer on their house mates. A separate consent will be issued via Qparents next week.

As the carnival is now a competitive event only, moving into next year, we will trial a ‘swim off’ concept, where students in every year level will have an opportunity to earn points for their house during their swimming lessons.  This ‘swim off’ will be built into the year level swimming lessons, and points will contribute to their overall house tally.  This will provide students with the opportunity to swim at their level and in the safest water depth conducive to their swimming ability.

We acknowledge there may be some disappointment in the community as this required change is a departure from a well-established tradition on the school calendar at Yeronga State School.  If you have any questions about the Swim Meet please feel free to reach out and contact the school.  

Departing Students

In preparation for 2025, can you please notify the school if your child will not be returning to Yeronga State School in 2025. You can notify us via email on: studentdepartures@yerongass.eq.edu.au .

Please provide the following information:

Student Name:

2024 Year level:

2025 Departing to (school name):

Please note, we do not need an email for year 6 students graduating to High School.

Congratulations to Chess Champion Leo

7 November Prep student Leo, played in the Brisbane Age Chess Championships, which is the strongest chess tournament for six-year-olds in Queensland. It was going to be a tough event for Leo, but he was very excited to play.  Leo was fortunate enough to win his age division, which was children born in 2018 or later. There were 39 players. This result means that Leo is the Brisbane Under-7 Champion for 2024. Congratualation Leo!

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