Swimming Carnival

St John’s Swimming Carnival is on at the Nowra Pool on Thursday 21 February, a reminder to all 100m freestyle swimmers to meet at the pool between 8.00am - 8.20am for an 8.30am start. All other students are to come directly to school, attend PALS and will be called to travel by bus to Nowra Pool. Year 7-10 students must wear sports uniform to and from school. Year 11 & 12 students can wear appropriate house colours. All students will arrive back at school in time for their afternoon buses. A school representative team will be chosen from this carnival.

Carnival notes have been distributed to students. They will need to be returned to student's PALS teachers by the Friday 15 February.

Any parent interested in assisting at the 2019 carnivals please indicate this on the carnival note or contact the school office.

Please note: there will not be BBQ food available at the swimming carnival. Canteen facilities are available from the Nowra Pool Cafe, however students are encourage to pack a healthy lunch as there are extensive wait times for cafe food.

Mrs Rachel Frew
PDHPE Coordinator

Sailing News

Over the New Years break some of our aquatic athletes travelled all the way to South Australia with a gang of multiple double trailer towing cars to compete in the Hobie 16 National Titles at North Haven. This was a two series regatta that featured lots of tight, hard, fun and competitive racing. After recently competing in the Hobie 16 State titles in Mannering Park aside some other school mates like Saxon Perry who achieved very well, we were all ready to bring it on for round two. The first series was a four day long event that held the womens, youth and grand masters (over 55) division. Bonnie Butler and Chilli Engel managed to achieve first place in the womens and 5th place in youths. The second series was another 4 days in length and being just the open fleet (all ages) the racing was harder and more competitive. Bryn Robinson-Mills flew over to compete in this series alongside some friendly Vincentia Sailing club Locals and achieved some great results. Bonnie and Chilli were also the only womens team in the open’s division and managed to improve from last year. In 2019 there should be some more great sailing to come. A message to the students is that if there are any students that are wishing to have a go at sailing and think that they might like to compete in the 2019 combined high schools sailing regatta in Belmont lake Maguire during the term 1 holiday break to please see Bonnie or Chilli for more details.