All Schools Touch Football

Last Saturday the Yeronga Mixed Touch Football Team played in the inaugural Brisbane All Schools Touch Football tournament at Corinda. This was the culmination of many weeks of training and learning. For most of the players this was their first experience of representative Touch Football and playing with a structure that included using many of the current plays and policies used by seasoned club players.

The day involved a double robin round competition against Sacred Heart Booval and St Benedict’s Mango Hill. In both games against Sacred Heart they proved a little too strong with their Touch experience. Team Yeronga certainly made them work hard for their wins and asked plenty of questions of their defence. In the two games against St Benedict’s we had two very good wins.

The overall improvement of the players’ skills and knowledge was really evident by the final game. The journey proved to be an excellent opportunity to develop our Yeronga talent. Congratulations to all the players involved.

Boys Softball A Gala Day Summary

This group of young men put on an impressive display of softball skills over the three Gala Days at Runcorn with a nine win and no loss performance!

From Day 1 they showed their high level of play with three wins from their first three games. Alec’s pitching was very good and Harry, Jarvis, Josh and Amin handled the infield play in first-class style. Our outfield players Sebastian, Hamish, Campbell and Aidan were ever-so reliable and made some outstanding catches. Lewis did a great job handling catching duties for the majority of the time and capped his good batting off with a ‘stand up’ (no slide required) 3-base hit in the final! With an 18-4 domination over Sunnybank Hills the boys had a successful end to a few months of concentrated skill work. Throughout the three days the boys batted well as a team with many 6 run innings on the scoresheet. The lads showed that a little hard work goes a long way! Well done boys, I enjoyed being your coach this season!

Thank you to Yeronga State High School for releasing two of their softball girls on Day 1 and Day 3 to do the scoring for two of our teams.

Mr McGuire

Swimming has Commenced

Swimming lessons are being held at the times stated in the permission note. Please remember to refer to the equipment list on the permission note so that your children have everything they need for their lessons. Children should have a complete change of clothes, swimming togs including a rashie for lessons, goggles (essential), towel, sunscreen, bathing cap (essential), deodorant (for older students) and flip flops or thongs (much preferred). Rashies are not required for races at carnivals, but students should cover up when not racing.

Swimming Carnivals

Preparations are beginning for these very important events on the Yeronga State School Calendar. Students need to be thinking, from the commencement of lessons, exactly which events they would like to compete in as once the program is written there will be very little time for changes. If children wish to withdraw from events that they can swim they will need parental permission. A form will be uploaded to the school web page for this purpose. Please remember that as the carnival will be held in the 25m pool at Yeronga Park there should be little concern over the completion of 50m events.

We will, as always, require parental support in the form of officials to make these carnivals run efficiently. If you are able to help please contact Mr Bateman via email; cbate12@eq.edu.au. We have been very fortunate, over the years, to have outstanding parental contributions from people like Ruth Bennet and we hope that this tradition continues.

On a lighter note the big question is; who can end Lawson’s 8 year dominance in swimming? Can Kendall, who are winless this year? Can Evans, who won the Athletics? Could Paterson, who are yet to chalk up a win this year? Only time will tell.

Logistics of the Senior Swimming Carnival

Assistance needed to set up at Yeronga Park Swimming Pool from 7.30am Please (on bended knees)!

Please advise and remind children of their age for the carnival i.e. the age they turned or will turn this year e.g. Born in 2007 = 12 years.

Children cannot compete in the same 50m and 25m event. e.g. 50m & 25m freestyle - not permitted; 50m & 25m in different strokes - permitted.

All events will be swum in the 25m pool. 25m swimmers, if in the shallow lanes, will slide in before the starter commences, hold the end of the pool and then push off the when the whistle goes. They must leave the pool immediately upon finishing their race and then wait at the end of their lane for the judges to record their placing.

Trophies for Championship on age e.g. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 and Yeronga Gift.

Yeronga Gift - An Open freestyle event for boys and girls who swim the six fastest times in the 50m Freestyle.

There will be one relay (6 x 50m freestyle) event for girls and one for boys made up of at least one swimmer from each age group (8, 9, 10, 11, 12). Team members may swim in any order.

POINTS:

50m events - 2 points for each participant in heats

Given after considering all heat times for an event

1st place: 15 points; 2nd place: 12 points; 3rd place: 10 points

4th place: 8 points; 5th place: 6 points; 6th place: 4 points

7th place: 2 points; 8th place: 2 points; 9th place: 2 points

10th place: 2 points

25m events (each heat) - 1 point for each participant

25m Kickboard events - 1 point for each participant

Relay - 1st place: 30 points 2nd place: 24 points 3rd place: 20 points 4th place: 16 points

This meet is a Carnival event for 2019. Our school swimmers for the District Meet in 2020 will be selected on the basis of these performances.

Senior Swimming Carnival Indicative Timetable

9:00 50m Freestyle Events, 25m Freestyle Events, Kickboard on front,

10:30 50m Breaststroke Events, 25m Breaststroke Events (may be held over until after break 11 to 11:30),

11:00 to 11:30 Break

11:30 Yeronga Swimming Gift: (Boys/Girls Open Freestyle Race (eight fastest times swum in 50m heats for boys and girls))

12:00 to 12:30 50m Backstroke Events 25m Backstroke Events, Kickboard on back,

12:45 to 1:15 Break

1:15 to 1:45 50m Butterfly Events 25m Butterfly Events,

2:15 Freestyle Relay, if time permits, 100m Events

Logistics for the Junior Swimming Carnival

Junior Swimming Carnival (Years 1 & 2) and Sno cone day (3 December)!

9am – 10am 1P & 1M

10am – 11am 1BR, 1O & 1W

11:45pm All of Year 2

1P & 1M must be ready for departure at 8:40am. First events to be marshalled at 9:00am.

1BR, 1O & 1W must be ready for departure at 9:40am. First events to be marshalled at 10:00am.

Year twos be ready for departure at 11.30pm following a bell at 11:20pm. First events to be marshalled at 11.45pm.

All students will swim in their grade level.

Students will be nominated into races based on their school swimming group.

Finals will not be conducted for any events. All children who participate in the heats will receive place ribbons.

Please turn over (scroll down) for a full list of events.

What to bring to the pool:

Swimming togs, swimming cap, towel, thongs/crocs, water bottle, hat and sunscreen.

Parent helpers

We need about 6 parent helpers for each time slot. 4 Judges and 2 Ribbon writers. Please see either your class teacher or contact Mr Bateman at cbate12@eq.edu.au if you can assist.

The Rationale

Due to the large number of students in Year 1, the limited shade available at the venue and the range of swimming ability across the student group, we have tried to create a program that gives all students an insight into what they may experience in the years to come at the senior carnival. We are again using several innovations including mid pool blocks for the kickboard races and noodles to assist students.

Sno cones!!!!!!!!!!

All students will have the opportunity to buy a sco cone for $2. All money needs to be given to the class teacher the day before the swimming carnival. The sno cones will be given out after second break at school, for the year ones when all classes have returned from the pool, and on the following day at first break for the year twos.

Rebel Sport Community Kickbacks

Just a quick note to publicise our involvement with this scheme and how it works. For some time now Yeronga State School has been part of the above mentioned scheme. The scheme gives the school credit for purchases of equipment at Rebel as anyone who purchases equipment nominates Yeronga State School as the recipient of Community Kickbacks. I have purchased cricket equipment, Footballs and Netballs with this credit. It is an easy way to contribute resources to our school especially if you enjoy spending time and money in sports stores like myself.

Gala Days

Congratulations to all of our Gala Day participants. Everyone seems to have had a great Spring/Summer season. Don’t forget to thank you coaches. They did a wonderful job donating their time for some quality coaching.

Yeronga State School (YSS) District Trial Selection Policy Special Consideration (Years 3 to 6)

The representative pathway for school sport is for children from 10 to 12 years of age. Yeronga is part of a very strong district which consists of 28 schools from Yeronga State School to the Calamvale area. In contact and skill team sports those aged 11 and 12 need to possess the advantages of size and speed, as well as skill on most occasions. Selectors will choose those with the skill and the resilience to compete at a higher level. Remember that selectors give up their time for these trials meaning that it is important for us to send only those ready to compete at a higher level. Very seldom is it appropriate to send students for experience. An indicator of readiness for participation at a higher level would be being among the best 3 or 4 players in most games for your club under 12 teams.

In order to be selected to attend a District Trial children should make themselves known to me (Mr Bateman) for either a selection trial with the appropriate teacher or so that they may be given the appropriate forms. Remember that children must give at least two weeks notice that they wish to attend a district trial to allow for a school selection trial to be held in the event of a great deal of interest being shown in a particular sport.

Important Sporting Dates

YSS Senior Swimming Carnival: 26 November

YSS Junior Swimming Carnival: 3 December

Cameron Bateman
Sports Teacher