Sports Report

Welcome back for term 3. As always there has been plenty of sporting action happening around Bowen State School both during school time and outside of school time!

State Championship Cross Country

Last weekend were the Queensland State cross country championships in Ipswich. One of our students in Grade 4 represented North Queensland in this event, Charlee S. She did an amazing job making it to this level and ran a PB on the day. Congratulations Charlee you should be incredibly proud of yourself.

School Holiday Program Basketball

During the school holidays it was great to see some of our students head down to Mackay to be part of the school holiday program. Students were able to improve their skills as they worked on different aspects of their game and played several games during the 2 day event. The feedback from the coaches and staff from Mackay basketball was incredibly positive about our students, both in the way they conducted themselves and their skills. Great work kids!! We are hoping to have a similar program up and running here at Bowen State School into the future.

After School Basketball

After School Basketball continues to grow in popularity with more students joining each week. It has been great to see the skills of all the players develop and the level of basketball is becoming very good. Whitsunday basketball and Mackay basketball want to see what we have established here at Bowen State School and will visit to see our programs running in the not too distant future. This will be an amazing opportunity to showpiece what we have achieved in such a short period of time. A big thank you has to go to all the amazing staff who have helped make this possible!

Excellence and Elite Basketball

Excellence basketball has been modified and will continue to evolve this term. With the development of skills and passion for the game it has become necessary to change things a little bit. We now have 3 sessions of Excellence and Elite basketball per week, with the addition of 7.30am sessions on Tuesday mornings. It was great to have nearly 20 students attend the first of these sessions this week.

Juggling

Congratulations to our juggling team who had their first performance at school at parade on the last day of Term 2. They all did and amazing job and the reaction from everyone that saw it was sensational. The team is continuing to work hard and will have another performance at school Fete and then a very special day dedicated to the juggling team on the 27th August. More information will be coming in regard to this day soon.

Cricket Trials

Cricket Trials are happening this term and last night we had the Bowen Sub District trials. Congratulations to Kaleb F, Riley B, Henry W and Casey F who were selected to represent Bowen in the Whitsunday trials.

Athletics Trials

Next Friday we have our Bowen athletics trials at the sporting complex. We have a large number of students representing Bowen State School at this event. All the best to all of these students and we’ll have an update on their progress in the next sports report.

Leigh Dunn

HPE Teacher