On Tuesday 22^nd August, southern schools across Tasmanian participated in the SPSSA Winter Carnival for 2023! There were 5 sports on offer: AFL, AFLW, hockey, netball and tennis!

In the lead up to the Winter Carnival Day, Year 5/6 students had to be nominated for a sport by their schools and attend trials. If successful at the trials, they would make the team for their region and attended training/s at other schools. Our region is made up of a total of 14 schools.

This year we nominated 16 of our year 5/6 students and 11 of our Molesworth students were chosen to represent our region at Netball, AFL, AFLW and Soccer.  An incredible achievement, especially for our Year 5 students! To those that went to trials and were not selected, we wish you all the best next year!

Thank you very much to our wonderful parents and carers for transporting our students to trials, training and on game day!

Our representatives on the day were:

Netball – Addison, Oaklahn
AFL – Jack S
AFLW – Ashley, Amber and Haley
Soccer – Mitchell and Riley

Below are sport reports by our students:

We played at Lindisfarne North Primary School Oval at the OHA Football Club grounds. There were 6 teams and we all played 3 games. There was one grand final. Ashley was on the Tigers team, Amber on the Saints team and Haley on the Blues Team.

Haley’s team won the grand final and she won the Coaches award!

We had a big company that donated 4 boxes of apples, 3 boxes of bananas, mandarins, pears and a lot of fruit. It was a bit rainy and cold but we warmed up when we played. It was fun!

By Ashley and Haley

We played at Cadbury oval. There were the Magpies, Kingborough, Swans, Roos, the Eagles. My team were the Derwent Saints. We played 3 games. It was very competitive! On my team were some of my friends I play with at New Norfolk. I played half forward flank. I had fun! My friend kicked 3 goals. Our coach was very good.

By Jack S

We played 5 games of netball! We were at the Creek Road netball centre. There were 5 teams, the red robins, green parrots, pink rose finches, blue wrens and the Huon channel hawks. We were the gold finches!

Addison knew a few people from the other teams. We made friends with our teammates and met new people. Oaklahn played WA, C and one half of GD. Addison played GD the whole time and one half in keeper. Addison won the MVP award for Division 1.

We had a lot of fun.

By Addison and Oaklahn

We played soccer at Wentworth Park. We played 3 games for Derwent, if you made the grand final you played 4 games. We won our first game, tied the next and lost the last game. Riley played right back and right wing. Mitchell  was the goalkeeper and also played defence. We all had a lot of fun! It was very challenging, there were competitive teams.

By Riley and Mitchell