In yet another big week for sport, a small but spirited group of 20 Year 3 and 4 boys and girls attended the ACT Netball Centre in Lyneham for an inter-school gala day. This was a non-competitive event designed for fun and learning of fundamental skills, as such there was no scoring or finals with the main emphasis on trying something new.

Students were selected from an original pool of more than 40 students who nominated to play - with EVERY player that nominated and tried out making us tremendously proud as well as making the selections incredibly difficult. They should all be very proud of their efforts and we look forward to offering other sporting opportunities later in the year for those that missed out.

We were able to enter 2 teams for the day: Mr Scherer heading up 'CPS 1' with our more experienced players and Mrs Penney taking 'CPS 2' all of whom had never played before. It is fair to say that both teams learned an incredible amount across the 8 games played and continued to improve with every single game.

Our netballers were rotated through most of the 7 positions on the court and were introduced to a flotilla of unfamiliar rules and took to the challenge with great enthusiasm. These netballers represented themselves and Campbell Primary School incredibly well both on and off the court and we received positive feedback from spectators, other schools’ staff and organisers.

These activities take a village to bring together with lots of background work. We wanted to extend a huge thankyou to the 3-4 teaching team, Miss Jones from the sports committee, and Ms Minehan for coming out to cheer us on! We wanted to acknowledge the organisers at Netball ACT who were very supportive in providing us with an additional umpire and a great and well organised carnival opportunity. Finally, and most importantly, a massive thankyou to all of our families for supporting our young athletes and coaches and getting behind the day in a million different ways – we truly couldn’t do it without you!