Today we sent 60 runners to Domeney Reserve for the District Cross Country. There were 9 school competing against each other and with each school able to send along 10 runners per age group there were up to 90 runners in each group. With only the top 10 spots progressing to Division it was a tough competition!
Holy Spirit had a great result finishing in our highest place in a long time!
Some of our achievements today were:
– 8 runners finishing in the top 10 and progressing to Division.
– 22 students finishing in the top 30 of their group
– an overall placing for Holy Spirit in 3rd place from 9 schools with 602 points.
Congratulations on everyone’s amazing efforts!
Good luck to Lachie Q, Jack S, Lexie Q, Caitlin S, Starly P, Charli N, Tom R and Sam T who will compete at Division level.
A special thank you to Vicki Knight for all her efforts training the team. Vicky has been training the Holy Spirit cross country team for the last 6 years and we highly value her knowledge and efforts.

Last week we were lucky enough to have 4 players from the Ringwood Hawks run clinics in our Grade 3-6 Phys Ed classes. Nate, Melissa, Logan and Anika have moved from America to play for the Hawks and have been visiting local primary schools sharing their skills and knowledge!
Students had a great time challenging themselves with a variety of ball handling skills, challenges, relays and games. A huge thank you to all the players for running the clinic, Ken for the organisation and nets for our basketball rings, and The Bendigo Bank Ringwood for the generous donation of basketballs.

This week in Inter School Sports we vs Croydon Hills, Here are the scores from this week. Basketball boys had a close game winning by 5 points with a score of 25 – 20 great job, Basketball girls gave it their best but unfortunately they  lost with a score of 10 – 22.  Volley stars have had another great win the final score was 2 sets to 1, let go volley stars. Now  on to cricket, cricket  had an awesome game win by by 27 runs with a score of 77-53 , keep it up. Tee ball boys gave it their very best but sadly lost with a end score of 3-15 as well  tee ball girls had a loose will a score of 4-10. Tennis played a awesome game but unfortunately they lost with the score of 161 – 338. Rounders mixed played a close game, unfortunately losing with the score of 14-16, that was a great effort seeing Croydon hills have strong rounders teams. Rounders girls tried their best but unfortunately lost with the end scores of 14 – 20.
Great job all teams!

Report by Danae L & Tori S

Congratulations to Holy Spirits 4 super swimmers Lexie Q, Caitlyn S, Louise P and Tegan B who competed at the Eastern Region swimming finals last Monday. The girls competed in the 4x50m freestyle relay heats in the morning, placing 2nd in their heat and landing the 5th fastest time overall, qualifying them for the final to be held in the afternoon. The girls swam in a final featuring the 10 fastest teams in the eastern metropolitan region, placing 6th.
Congratulations on your achievements girls!

Last Friday the students in Action Sport had a blast learning a whole range of breakdancing moves with Carlo from Vibe Studio. They worked hard on a hot morning and performed an awesome routine at the end! Check out the gallery of photos below….

Videos to come….

Today we played really well against Kalinda and we won 8/9 games and had 1 draw.

Results

Report by: Sam L and Kane

This morning we had 4 Grade 5/6 girls representing Holy Spirit at the Maroonday/Manningham Division Swimming comp at Aquanation.

Louise, Tegan, Caitlyn and Lexie competed in the 11 yr girls 4x50m Freestyle. The girls swum a stunning race and finished in 2nd place! Earning themselves a spot at the Regional championship next Monday.

Louise also competed in individual backstroke swimming a speedy race and finishing beautifully in 3rd place! Lousie just narrowly missing out on regional qualification.

Great job to all girls and good luck next week!

Caeleigh 🙂

Interschool sport update   

Today was a great for Holy spirit with 7/9 wins. Great job Holy Spirit!

Report by: Kiara P & Jess D

On Monday 22nd February Holy Spirit had 19 students represent the school at Ringwood North District Swimming Competition. The event was held at Tintern pool where we came up against the best swimmers from schools in our district. Every student performed their best with 17 of our student walking away with top 4 finishes in at least one of their events! A fantastic effort.
Congratulations to Louise P who has progressed through to Division in Backstroke, as well as our 11yr Girls Freestyle Relay team (Caitlyn S, Louise P, Tegan B and Lexie Q) who also progress to Division. The girls will compete next Monday at Aquanation. Good luck girls!

Caeleigh

This week in Holy Spirit’s interschool sports we versed Warranwood and as always, we gave it our best and showed great sportsmanship.
Boys Basketball had a great game against Warranwood but unfortunately we lost by 13.
Best Players: Lincoln B and Ben A
Girls Basketball tried their best to keep up with Warranwood but couldn’t stand their ground and lost by 20.
Best players: Ayla H and Sophie L
Cricket had a hard run and delivered astonishingly, chasing down 96 of 12 overs with some massive sixes going everywhere! A great win for Cricket!!
Best Players: James M and Ryan W
Tee ball had a great game but unfortunately they lost 7 to 23 in a hard game.
Best players: Alex P and Tom R
Tee ball girls put up a great fight but unfortunately lost by nine points 15 to 24.
Best players: Riley C and Linesse C
Volleystars had a great win proving they were too strong for the opposition Warranwood winning 41 to 33.
Best Players: Jess D and Jack
Tennis had loss by 110 points 212 to 322 but not once throughout the game did they give up which is what we are about.
Best Players: Sam M and Charlotte G
Rounders boys had a great and close win beating Warranwood 12 to 5 and had the upper hand all game.
Best Players: Cooper L and Daniel K
Rounders girls unfortunately couldn’t get over the line losing by 8.
Best Players: Milla W and Sienna M

Report written by: Brodie K and Zac S.