SCHOOL SPORT AUSTRALIA 12 YEARS AND UNDER TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014 Last year in late November, Bili Robertson attended the 2014 School Sport Australia 12 years and under WYVERN SPORT TERM 1 - WEEK 2, 2015 Track and Field Championships. The event was held in the small town of Penguin, located on the north WYVERN HOUSE SPORT HANDBOOK west of Tasmania. Known for its unpredictable weather, Penguin put on wonderful sunny days for The Wyvern House Sport Handbook is being printed Australia best primary school able and athletes with and will be issued to parents of children in Years 3 – disabilities to showcase their months of training. 6 shortly. It is designed to assist you with Eighteen U10 boys competed in the 800m. Bili understanding the day-to-day organisation of sport ran third in his heat and the following day finished at Wyvern. The 2015 Sport Handbook will also third in the final, achieving a bronze medal and PB accessible via the sport page of the Wyvern along the way. The day only got better when Bili Newsletter. joined another 800m runner and two 200m runners from NSW in the U10 800 Sprint Medley (200m, Please familiarise yourselves with this booklet as it 200m, 100m, 300m). The spikes went on and the will answer many of those questions that you may NSW boys flew home to win gold and set a new have during the year about sport and the school’s Australian record of 1:55:68. The relay medals were requirements from your son. In addition to this it presented by Steve Hooker, Olympic Gold Medalist contains maps of some of those school sporting and former World Champion Pole Vaulter. venues that are usually difficult to locate in a street directory. NEWINGTON PREPARATORY SCHOOLS’ INTER- HOUSE SWIMMING CARNIVAL ROUND 1 SUMMER SPORT COMMENCES SATURDAY 7 FEBRUARY PLEASE NOTE: 8:00AM Departure from Wyvern The Wyvern fixture sheet for Term 1 sport can be The annual NCP Inter-House Swimming Carnival is accessed via the Wyvern sport page on Spaces. scheduled for Wednesday 11 February at the Ryde Aquatic Centre, Victoria Road, Ryde. Students from All team lists, venues, starting times and opposition Years 3 – 6 will be departing Wyvern by bus for the teams are listed. On rare occasions there may be Aquatic Centre at 8:00am sharp and returning by unavoidable last minute changes to fixtures. Please 3:00pm for dismissal. Parents are welcome to check these fixtures on a Thursday evening and attend. contact Joel Wilson through the office if you have any questions or problems. Boys will enter their chosen events on the day and if they are one of the eight fastest swimmers from the In the case of wet weather a message will be heats, they will progress to a final. The 100m recorded on the WET WEATHER NUMBER (9432 Freestyle, 200m Individual Medley, 50m Butterfly 6460) and it can be called after 6:45am on the and 50m Backstroke events will be straight finals on morning of the match. For early matches a message the day and selection for these finals will be held in will be left prior to 7:00am. week 2 at the Senior School Pool (Refer below for SCHOOL SPORT IS COMPULSORY AND details regarding swim trials) PUNCTUALITY IS EXPECTED PROGRAM OF EVENTS... Some of our boys are involved in club sport outside 50m Butterfly Finals for U9 – U12 of Newington and this can be very beneficial to their development. I do not want to discourage this 50m Backstroke Finals for U9 –U12 practice, however, I feel it is necessary for there to Junior 200m Ind. Medley FINAL be an early reminder that school sport is compulsory Senior 200m Ind. Medley FINAL at Newington and it must take priority over outside club commitments. Any requests for ‘Leave from U8 50m F/S HEATS Sport’ must be made in writing and addressed to the U9 50m F/S HEATS Head of Campus (Mr Ian Holden). It is also expected U10 50m F/S HEATS that the boys arrive in their correct sport uniform 30 minutes prior to the match commencing to allow U11 50m F/S HEATS sufficient time for the team to warm up and prepare U12 50m F/S HEATS for the match. Junior 100m F/S FINAL Senior 100m F/S FINAL U8 25m BR/S HEATS U9 50m BR/S HEATS Depending on the program offered by the host U10 50m BR/S HEATS school, the swim team may vary from carnival to carnival as we match up swimmers with the events U11 50m BR/S HEATS on the program. U12 50m BR/S HEATS Our first invitation swimming carnival will be The 50M Freestyle Finals for U8 – U12 Scots College Invitation on Friday 20 February. This 50M Breaststroke Finals for U9 – U12 will be followed by the South Harbour Invitation on Friday 27 February. The IPSHA swimming carnival is The carnival is scheduled to commence at 9:00am scheduled for Wednesday 4 March and conclude by 2:15pm. Please be advised that there is a spectator fee charged by the Aquatic A note will go home providing greater detail to all the Centre and that the parking is sometimes limited. boys selected in the swimming team, after the Inter- There is free parking for 4 hours from 10:00am, House Carnival. after that the car park is patrolled by Rangers who SWIMMING SQUAD will issue fines. As part of our Swimming program at Wyvern, we Students travelling to and from school will wear full would like to offer you the opportunity to enrol your PE uniform including their House coloured polo shirt. son in a swimming squad that will be held at the They should already have their swimmers on Senior School Pool on Tuesday and Thursday underneath. Students will travel to the pool by bus. mornings (7:00am) during Term 1. The first session Any students wishing to travel directly to the pool will commence on Thursday 12 February. The from home may do so provided a note is given to the swimming squad will continue during Terms 2, 3 class teacher prior to the day. All students must and 4. This swim squad will be coached by remain at the carnival until it concludes at 2:15pm. experienced coaches and there will be a charge of Parents may depart the carnival with their son, $8 per session for their services. These charges will provided you inform your son’s classroom teacher be deducted from your sons stage account upon prior to leaving. receipt of his permission note and no refunds are The boys must bring their own recess and lunch and given if your son does not attend or changes his they will eat this during the carnival when there is an mind. appropriate amount of time between events. Please note that this program is not a “Learn to Students will NOT be permitted to visit the Swim” program. It involves boys’ who can already canteen during the carnival. swim being assessed and graded into squads on PLEASE NOTE: ability. SWIMMING CARNIVAL TRIALS FOR INDIVIDUAL Whether this swimming squad goes ahead or not MEDLEY, 100M FREESTYLE EVENTS, 50M will depend on the number of enrolments we BACKSTROKE AND 50M BUTTERFLY EVENTS receive. Before boys can participate in the Swim Squad, a permission note must be returned to the Please note that this week we held time trials prior front office, by Wednesday 11 February. Enrolments to the swimming carnival to determine our finalists are accepted on a first in best dressed basis and for the Junior and Senior Individual Medley, the positions are limited. Upon receiving your enrolment Junior and Open’s 100m freestyle and the 50m you will only be contacted if your enrolment is too Backstroke and Butterfly events. late and the positions are filled or if there are insufficient swimmers attending for the squad to If a child wanted to try out for these events but was proceed. unable to attend the Senior School pool this week due to unavoidable circumstances, please contact WYVERN BASKETBALL SKILLS COACHING – Mr Joel Wilson first thing Friday morning to arrange WEDNESDAY MORNINGS (7:30AM – 8:10AM) an alternative time for a trial. Your son will need to bring swimmers and goggles to school on Friday. To assist in the development of young basketballers at Wyvern Preparatory School an additional skill NEWINGTON PREPARATORY SCHOOLS’ session will be completed each Wednesday SWIMMING TEAM morning. This voluntary session will run from 7:30am – 8:10am and it is available for boys in Based on the results from the Inter-House swimming Years 3 - 6. carnival, a Newington Swim team will be selected. These boys will be required to represent Newington This program will be overseen by the Director of at a number of swimming invitation carnivals and at Basketball at the Senior School, Rex Nottage. the IPSHA swimming carnival. It should be noted that no Preparatory School RBCC also held an inter-club team time trials teachers will be present at these sessions and event, with teams from Dulwich Hill Cycling parents will be required to transport their boys from Club and Manly Cycling Club. Hugh was a the Newington Senior School Gym to Wyvern team captain, and through excellent following the completion of the training session. teamwork, they achieved a Bronze Medal, Alternately, you may grant permission for your child overhauling one of the U15 teams! to walk back to Wyvern by indicating it on the bottom of the permission note. Senior School • Late last year in term 4 a number of Wyvern prefects supervise the pedestrian crossings boys participated in the Waverley Shield between the Senior School and Wyvern at this time Nippers Carnival involving Bronte, of the morning.