It has been another busy fortnight of sporting achievements with our Divisional Cross Country and the SSV District Winter Sports Competition.

Divisional Cross Country

On May 20th, 24 students headed to the Geoff Watt Track to participate in Divisional Cross Country.  The weather was perfect and 6 of our students were successful in the top 12 in their age level. 

Niamh Jensen, Layla Craig, Hamish Johnson, Sinead Juster, Josh Robertson and Lexi Walsh have been invited to attend the Regional Cross Country on June 5th. We wish them all the best.

 SSV District Winter Sports

St Joseph's students participated in SSV District Winter Sports held on Tuesday May 27th. Five  teams participated mostly made of grade 6 students with a few Grade 5 Invitations.

Two Netball teams headed to St Pauls to participate, while Soccer, AFL Girls and Boys Teams teams had the opportunity to play at Bellbird Park in Drouin.

The AFL Girls had marvellous success winning both of their games.

Ida Blackwood, Sophia Borg, Alirah Dalton, Liv Hynd, Morgan Knowles, Suzen Kuol, Isla Molenaar, Indy Phillips, Chloe-Lee Stott, Lexi Walsh and Remy Youlden  will  now represent our school at the SSV Divisional Winter Sports on June 16th at Bellbird Park.

Thank you to the parents and supporters who cheered the students on as they displayed a grand effort.

Footy Recount

By Sophia Borg, Chloe-Lee, Remy Youlden & Lexi Walsh

Today, we went to play a round robin at Bellbird Park for the St Josephs girls team. The girls in our team were Lexi W, Remy Y, Sophia B, Alriah D, Isla M, Morgan K, Chloe-lee S, Suzen K, Indi P, Liv H, Ida B.

G1- St Joseph's VS Trafalgar 

The first game we played was at 11am and it was against Trafalgar! In the team's opinion we played really well. During the game we were really puffed but Lexi, Suzen, Remy and Alirah were for sure almost in every part of the field as the play was moving around the field,were, which really gave the team options. During the game someone had high tackled Lexi W to the ground and Lexi W had landed and as she landed she moved her fingers wrong and then when she tried getting up someone on the other team stood on her fingers while wearing footy boots. Soon after that she went for a mark and when she was about to mark it she had jard her finger when marking the ball. 

Final scores G1- 12/3

Before we played our next game we had a 30 minute break, so we decided to go to the footy box and cheer for the boys St Joseph's team. The boys were playing really well when we were watching. It was like the girls little cheer squad on the side lines were giving them some enthusiasm. 

G2- St Joseph’s VS St Paul’s 

The next game we played was at 12.40pm and we were playing against St Paul’s. St Pauls were a pretty tough team but we still managed to work together and win. During the game we were all working together and communicating like a team and it worked really well for us because not only that but we were also encouraging each other. 

Final scores G2- 21/6 

In Conclusion 

Overall it was a very good experience and it gave us all an opportunity to work/play with people your not always with. Being at Bellbird with our friends was really fun and we all enjoyed every part of the day and we also enjoyed watching the boys play and going over to the soccer field to watch some of our other friends play their final games of soccer!