Class Swimming:

Thank you to all those parents/grandparents/carers who have been coming to the pool each week to assist with swimming for our Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 Classes.  Your assistance is really appreciated and makes such a difference to the students.

Can all parents please check that UNIFORMS and SWIMMING GEAR is named. Some classes waste considerable time each week during lessons sorting out the missing shirt, lost shorts and left behind swimming gear.  Naming it makes this much easier and quicker, not to mention fewer losses for you and your students. 

Please ensure that your child has everything they need for our swimming lessons, to save us precious time.

• Swimming Cap
• Sunsafe Shirt – students cannot swim without something covering their shoulders – a rashie/sunshirt or T-shirt. The only exception to this is the swim suits which have built in long or short sleeves.
• Goggles – while these are not compulsory – many students are more comfortable wearing them, if your students wishes to wear these please make sure they have their own. While there are some spares at the pool a lot of time can be wasted with the sheer volume of students borrowing goggles – it takes a lot of time and hands to adjust so many goggles, which inevitably is needed when they are borrowing our spares – if they have their own they will fit them without needing adjustment.

Students Unable to Swim due to illness – if your child is unable to swim on any particular week, please send a note to school with your child or email me at aawoo0@eq.edu.au

A special mention to Prep B, they were absolutely amazing in getting changed at the end of the lesson. Something we plan in 20 minutes and it took them only 15 minutes. Keep it up!

Kilometre Club:

Students who are keen to prepare for Cross Country can participate in Kilometre Club. We meet on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings starting at 8:30am to 8.45am.

District Sport Trials:

Well done to the ESS swim team who participated in recent City District trials. As a team we came second overall in the C-class schools – a terrific effort.

A special congratulations to Toby and Sienna who both qualified for the City District team at the regional trials. Good luck and swim SUPER fast.

Andrew Woodrick

HPE Teacher