INHALE and EXHALE completely!!  

WOW, what a couple of weeks it has been here at St John’s!!

As you will all know the girls recently competed in the Aerobics competition, School Cross Country and School Swimming Sports all in one week.

Last week, a group of our Year 5/6 girls completed in the Rippa Rugby Carnival at Rugby Park and the All Saints Cross Country.

Perhaps the busier we are the more productive we are!

Our School Cross Country was held on Tuesday 25th May. It was a wet, blustery afternoon, but as always the girls took it in their stride and did their best running around Queens Park with smiles intact!

Results: (Order:1st, 2nd, 3rd)

NE/Year 1: Nina Russell, Eleanor Anstice-Shirley, Lucy Dixon-Calder

Year 2/3: Greer Valli, Charlee Miles, Portia Smith

9-Year-Olds: Isla Patterson, Mia Padgett, Ella Calvert

10-Year-Olds: Martina Bosma, Gwynedd Ryder, Tayla Nel

11-Year-Olds: Jessica Hay, Sophie Purdon, Ingrid Fleming

12-Year-Olds: Harlow Sheehan, Olivia Sorensen, Stacy-Jay Harvey

13-Year-Olds: Charlee O’Connor, Matilda Stevens, Molly Stockman

Junior championship: 1st Martina Bosma, 2nd Jessica Hay, 3rd Sophie Purdon

Senior championship: 1st Harlow Sheehan, 2nd Olivia Sorensen, 3rd Charlee O’Connor

House points:1st Enderby, 2nd Lester, 3rd Marchant, 4th Alabaster

I would like to say a huge thank you to the parents who gave up their afternoon to marshal the course. We really appreciate the help keeping the girls safe around the course and cheering them on. These parents did an amazing job and we hope they all enjoyed the afternoon.

This event is for boys and girls aged 10 & 11 and is held annually at Elizabeth Park.  This was held on Thursday 2nd June. The following girls ran the 2000m course and their results were as follows:

Age 10: 1st Drew Peddie, 2nd  Martina Bosma, 3rd Gwynedd Ryder,  4th Tayla Nel

Age 11: 3rd Amelia Frew, 4th Jessica Hay, 5th Sophie Purdon, Ingrid Fleming.

Not only are we proud of these achievements, but more importantly the support that the girls gave each other throughout this event was brilliant. Well done girls, outstanding effort!

The Southland Primary School Cross Country will be held at Waimumu on Friday 17th June (postponement Tuesday 21st June). Further information will be emailed to the parents and students who have qualified to compete.

Netball is well underway. Thank you again to the parents who have volunteered to coach/manage our teams.

It was a bit of a rocky start with grading games. However, we hope the creases have been ironed out and it is smooth sailing from here on in.

Have a great season girls!

The Rippa Rugby Carnival took place on Wednesday afternoon, the 1st of June at Rugby Park.  Southland Rugby put a huge amount of effort into hosting this event and they did a fabulous job.

I’d like to thank Scott Patterson and Tracey Hamilton for taking the time out of their day to coach/manage our St John’s Spinners.

I’d also like to thank Kelly Jennings for helping out with transport.

Again, we couldn’t offer these additional sporting events without your help.

The girls won their first game and had two more close games.

A comment below from Rugby Southland regarding our girls.

“It was remarked on by both our Community Team members as well as some of the other schools, on the skill and talent that your girls showed in their games.”

Awesome work girls – we look forward to seeing you in the upcoming Tag Touch season.

The senior school attended Splash Palace to either compete or support our swimmers.

It was a fantastic morning at the pool, and it was great to see the comradery across the houses!

The overall results are as follows:

Junior championship: 1st Sophia Warbrick Smith, 2nd Eilidh Gordon, 3rd Ave Valoa-Jack

Senior championship: 1st = Shanna-Beth Smith and Nieve Peddie,  2nd Olive Rutledge,  3rd Olivia Sorensen 

House points: 1st Enderby, 2nd Alabaster, 3rd Marchant, 4th Lester

Well done to all of you who competed, there were some very close races!!

Thank you to Calli Peddie and Kelly O’Connor for assisting with stopwatch duty and walking back and forth from one end of the pool to the other.

We had a team of superstars in our parent vs year 8 girls relay. Calli Peddie, Jen Gordon, Vicki Unahi and Glen O’Connor who certainly gave the girls a run for their money, such an exciting race!  Glen I think you took one breath in 25m!!!

Tag Touch registrations for Year 5/6 and Year 7/8 will be open for another week.

If you are interested in giving it a go please click on the link below.

https://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/187538

At this stage, we don't have enough players to create a team for either grade.

Recently Emily achieved gold at the Step 1 gymnastics competition and is off to compete at the South Island Championships in Timaru.

Well done Emily, wishing you all the best.

If anyone has taken any photos of our after school sports teams in action, please feel free to email them through to me as it would be nice to put some in the sports section of the newsletter when space is available.  sports@stjohnsgirls.scxhool.nz.

If your daughter has made a representative team or has excelled in her sport, please remember to inform either myself or Mrs Roberts in the school office so we can acknowledge it in the newsletter. If they participated in a St John’s Girls’ School sports team we will note this for end of year achievement certificates and for Y7/8 stripes. Thank you.  My email is sports@stjohnsgirls.school.nz

Courage doesn’t always roar. 

Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow”

-Mary Anne Radmacher.