Dear Swimmers

For those swimmers who were selected into the BISAC Squad please remember to continue attending your weekly swimming commitments; we are carefully monitoring the attendance registers (Level 0 – 3: 2 sessions per week, Level 4 – 6: 3 sessions per week) to ensure only those swimmers fulfilling their training requirements are selected.

FREE FLOW HOUSE TICKETS

Until the end of term we will be offering Free 1 hour Flow House Ride Tickets as spot prizes during training. Flow House were are a major sponsor of the FOBISIA Swimming Championships and have provided the swim team with a small number of free tickets.  Over the next five weeks we will rewarding outstanding training / commitment with one of these spot prizes. These tickets may be issued for the following reasons:

• The first person from a squad on poolside ready to train
• Bringing the correct equipment to poolside – water bottle, shoes, kickboard, pull buoy etc
• Streamlining off every wall
• No breathing inside the flags – every time during the session
• Keeping the head down on every wall touch
• No breathing the first stroke off the wall – every time during the session
• Tumble turning every freestyle or backstroke set
• Two hand touch every breaststroke or butterfly set
• Being particularly helpful
• Working extra hard throughout the session
• The winning relay team in a training practice

Good luck swimmers.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

The Family Reading Challenge 2015, “Exploring Genres,” begins this week and will run until the end of Term 2. All families in the Junior School are invited to participate.

The Challenge is designed to encourage families to read together, for parents/carers to read aloud, and most importantly, to introduce families to exciting new authors and genres.

Studies show that reading for pleasure increases academic performance in maths, spelling, and vocabulary, that being read to allows children to make more meaningful connections to thoughts and ideas, and that more that 80% of children love or like being read to.

To participate in the Challenge, stop by the library to pick up a Family Reading Challenge Passport and check out a book. The rules are simple:

• Books must be checked out by a parent or carer
• Only one book for the Challenge may be checked out at a time
• Families must check out one book from each genre (The genres are: Adventure, Animals, Fairy Tales/Myths, Information, Poetry, and Realistic Fiction.)
• One book may be from Tumblebooks, our e-book library for Junior School
• The Challenge must be completed by Friday, 3rd April (end of Term 2)

All families that complete the Challenge will be invited to a special awards assembly in Term 3a.

If you have any questions, please see Ms Beeman in the library. This presentation also has more information.

Dear Swimmers

Congratulations to all the swimmers who achieved 1st – 8th place at the recent FOBISIA Swimming Championships, if you have not yet collected your award swimming cap or ribbons, they are still available to collect from Mrs Gill. Award hats and ribbons are available for both individual and relay events.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill