In Year 11 Recreational Activities, our girls experienced new, and sometimes unusual, pursuits for future leisure time. The girls chose Indoor Rock-Climbing, Go-Karting, Ice-Skating, Ten Pin Bowling, Canoeing and Roller-Blading. We hope that each girl finds her preferred form of exercise to continue in life after school.
In Year 9 and 10, students extended their skills in core activities such as SEPEP Netball, Thunderhoc, Aerobic Warm-ups, Fitness/Weight Training Circuits, Basketball, Volleyball, Table Tennis, Water Polo, Aqua Aerobics and Survival Swimming. They enjoyed the exhilaration and strategies of Battle Ball and Capture the Flag.
Our Year 8 students practised the fundamentals of Athletics, Soccer, Cricket, Volleyball, Touch Football and several other sports. The Year 7s improved their skills and confidence in Dance and in both forms of Gymnastics – Artistic and Rhythmic. They also participated in a series of Aquatic sessions in Terms 1 and 4.
The Year 7 Curriculum has included Aquatics and our girls have practised stroke technique in Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly. They enjoyed aquatic games, survival swimming and learned the fundamentals of Water Polo. Core sports for Year 7s were Track and Field Athletics, including the throws of Shot Put, Discus and Javelin as well as Long, Triple and High Jump. Our students extended their knowledge in Netball, Hockey and Soccer and many girls played competitively in the GSV (Girls' Sport Victoria) competition against five other schools. Basketball and Cricket were highlights of Term 4 and our Year 7s developed considerable skill and camaraderie during class matches. In Artistic Gymnastics, the students worked on the beam, cave unit, air board and learned fundamental acrobatic elements on the floor mats. In Rhythmic Gymnastics, choreographic ideas came to the fore with girls spiralling ribbons, throwing balls and spinning hoops during the construction of routines. In the end of year programme for Year 7s, the highlight was slipping, sliding and climbing on the inflatable slide and its 'obstacles'!
We wish Mrs Carolyn Walkley well for the impending arrival of her baby.We also
congratulate Mrs Angela Allen on the arrival of her son Albert and welcome her return to the PE faculty in 2011. Mrs Shari Gotch will also rejoin the staff part-time. Thanks go to our students, coaching staff and parents for their diligence and enthusiastic support of Physical Education and Sport at Ruyton.