Kicking off sport for 2016

Wk 4 Term 1

Where do we begin?  It would seem that sport here at Sylvia Park School has started with a BANG!  At any given lunchtime you can expect to find a group of students training with their coach.  First sport out of the blocks being delivered by Active Sport Auckland is softball.

This coincides well with as our first Tamaki Cluster event this year is softball.  Congratulations to the following students who will be representing SPS this Wednesday at Dunkirk Reserve.  All the very best for your tournament!

TAMAKI CLUSTER YEAR SOFTBALL TEAMS

YEAR 5	YEAR 6
Moehau	David
Francois	Loma
Kaleb	Tupou
Khyani	Tevita
Brandon	William
Karl	Bosco
Rylah	Reign
Yasmin	Sienna-Rose
Gabriella	Nesi
Angelina	Adi

YEAR 7	YEAR 8
Malachi	Justin
Bismarck	Sililo
Nelson	Leki
Chiko	Monica
Tyreece	Ezetera
Nia	Mele
Charlize	Sharon
Tali	Eneio
Terrie	Sione M
Launa Jean	Sione L

We have also had our first trials for the netball academy.  We are thrilled to announce two amazing coaches that are on board this year to take our Yr 5-8 teams, Coach Mary and Miss Whittle.  A squad will be chosen and trainings will take place in earnest over the next few weeks.

Lastly we are so thankful to have the wealth of talent and experience that Coach Fletcher and Coach Mary bring to our Rugby and League trainings.  Students have been very excited to receive such expertise from our coaches and the enthusiasm has been tangible.  

This has also resulted in SPS being able to enter 5 Rippa teams into the Friday night Interschool Rippa Tournament held at Mt Wellington Rugby Club at Hamlin Park.  It's been so great to see all the students, supported by their families, out on the field having a wonderful time.  A great start to a year of great sport SPS!  Keep it up!

Sports Photos and Tamaki Cluster

Term 4, Week 4

Last Friday we spent the morning in the hall ensuring that all our sport teams were given the opportunity to have their official photo taken.  It was wonderful to see how many students have been involved in such a wide variety of sporting codes.

This week we had the Tamaki Cluster Touch Tournament.  We took 1 x mixed Yr 5 team and 1 x mixed Yr 6 team.

The teams were

Yr 5 Mixed Coach Mary Green	Yr 6 Mixed Coach Whaea Dagmar
Maedana Tupou Tevita Bosco Loma William Meliame Adi Lina Elisa	Malachi Chicko Richie Nelson Tyreece Julius Charlize Margaret Terrie Launa-Jean

It was a great day and the teams played some great games of touch.  Both teams came a very credible third place.  Congratulations!  And a huge thanks to Coach Mary for all your support and dedication to our students.

Term 4 sports has started with a bang!

Term 4 Week 2

Term 4 sport has kicked off to a great start with our League Boys representing us with pride at the Interzone competition held on Thursday the 15th October at One Tree Hill Domain.  The tournament had numerous cancellations last term due to wet weather so despite our boys being a bit 'rusty' they rose to the challenge and played their hearts out.  Many thanks to Coach Fletcher and Mr Timo for supporting the boys.

Tamaki Cluster teams have been named and in Week 3 the two mixed teams will battle it out with our local primary schools.  We will keep you posted with the results.  Coach Mary is back on board with trainings and taking the Yr 5 team.  Whaea Dagmar has been coaching the Yr 6 team and Whaea Elizabeth will take the team on the day.  Good luck to you all!

We have also entered two touch teams in a Friday after school competition at Hamlin Park.  So far we have been playing really well and the main thing is everyone is having lots of fun!

Our Cross Country Speedsters!

On Wednesday week 10 Mrs Key took 24 students to compete in the Tamaki Cluster Cross Country event. The weather was not very good in the morning but it turned out to be a beautiful day. Our runners did a great job as they had a very tough course to run. It was a long wait for our year 8 students who were in the last 2 races of the day.

Everyone who competed did a great job with every runner coming in the top 20 of their age group. We may even see some of these kids competing at the olympics one day!