Our annual GISS swimming carnivals took place on Wednesday, 20th February (Years 3-6) and on Wednesday, 27th February (Years 7-10) and both were a great successes. 


All students had a wonderful time cheering on participants from their houses, and took enthusiasm from gaining points for victories in the pool as well as from participation in the variety of races and activities. The students competed in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly and received ribbons for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each race.

The new novelty race with pool noodles and the diving ring race were one of the favourite events of the carnival giving students who didn’t feel comfortable to compete in the main stroke races the opportunity to succeed.
Another event which turned Terrey Hills Swim School’s 25 metre pool into a very noisy place was the House Relay. The students gave every last bit of their energy to win their race. I am sure next year’s races will be equally hard fought.

Here are the house points tallies from the various swimming carnivals:
Year Group / House

Fairness

Respect

Friendship

Year 3/4

69 points

130 points

74 points

Year 5/6

60 points

85 respect

198 points
Year 7/8

181 points

110 points

158 points

Year 9/10

130 points

178 points

154 points

Total

440 points

503 points

584 points

 

The Winning House of our GISS Swimming Carnival 2019 is FRIENDSHIP with a total of 584 points. Congratulations!

IPSHA Swimming Carnival

Students in Years 3-6 had the wonderful opportunity to qualify for the IPSHA Swimming Carnival (IPSHA = Independent Primary School Heads Australia) which took place this Tuesday, 5th March at Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. It was the exact same pool were the Olympics were held 19 years ago. How time flies!

The students who represented GISS at the IPSHA Swimming Carnival were:

Year 4: Aurelia Tramp and Claudia Keiser

Year 5: Jack Kennedy

Year 6: Juliana Braeuniger, Franziska Zierer and Toby Legge

At the IPSHA Carnival these six students raced against students from other Independent Schools from all over Sydney such as Scots College, Sceggs, Ravenswood, Knox Grammar, PLC and Abbotsleigh. I am very proud of our 6 students' achievements. They really did us proud with their performances. Although none of our students qualified for the next level called CIS (Combined Independent Schools) their results were amazing considering the size of our Year 3-6 cohort. Please find below a few examples of their best races and overall places.

 
Name

Age Group

Stroke

Overall Place

Aurelia Trampe

10-year-old girls

50-meter freestyle

33rd out of 111 girls

Aurelia Trampe

10-year-old girls

50-meter backstroke
27th out of 63 girls

Aurelia Trampe

10-year-old girls

50-meter breaststroke
29th out of 62 girls

Claudia Keiser

10-year-old girls

50-meter freestyle

74th out of 111 girls
Jack Kennedy

11-year-old boys

50-meter freestyle

68th out of 113 boys

Jack Kennedy

11-year-old boys

50-meter backstroke

33rd out of 54 boys

Franziska Zierer

11-year-old girls

50-meter freestyle

102nd out of 113 girls

Toby Legge

11-year-old boys

50-meter freestyle

90th out of 113 boys
Juliana Braeuniger

12-year-old girls

50-meter freestyle

90th out of 109 girls

 

 

Our next sports event is our first GISS Athletics Carnival (Years 3-10) which will be held on Friday, 24th May at the Sydney Academy of Sport and Recreation in Narrabeen. Please diarise this sports event. I will send out more information closer to the time. Students in Years 3-6 will have the amazing opportunity to qualify for the IPSHA Athletics Carnival. I will be in touch with more information closer to the time.

 

 

Anika Davey (Physical Education Teacher)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IPSHA Swimming Carnival

Students in Years 3-6 had the wonderful opportunity to qualify for the IPSHA Swimming Carnival (IPSHA = Independent Primary School Heads Australia) which took place on Tuesday, 5th March at Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. It was the exact same pool were the Olympics were held 19 years ago. How time flies!

The students who represented GISS at the IPSHA Swimming Carnival were: Year 4: Aurelia and Claudia; Year 5: Jack; Year 6: Juliana, Franziska and Toby.

At the IPSHA Carnival these six students raced against students from other Independent Schools from all over Sydney such as Scots College, Sceggs, Ravenswood, Knox Grammar, PLC and Abbotsleigh. I am very proud of our 6 students' achievements. They really did us proud with their performances. 

Although none of our students qualified for the next level called CIS (Combined Independent Schools) their results were amazing considering the size of our Year 3-6 cohort. 

Anika Davey (Physical Education Teacher)