FROM THE SPORTS AND ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR

12.1. Barker College Visit – Sunday, 7 October.

On Sunday, 7 October, Barker College will be travelling to The Toowoomba Preparatory School as part of their sports tour and will be competing against Prep in cricket, basketball and tennis. Due to the competition being in the holidays, we have made considerations according to the distance some boys would need to travel to come in for the fixture. We have also listed substitutes that will come into the team if there are children that are unavailable. Further correspondence will be sent home to the following students shortly;

Just a reminder, if families can let the office know if you are available or not available to participate please.

Cricket: Sam Morris, Harry Agar, Oliver Hammond, Lachlan Grigg, Angus Jakins, Will Jakins, Tom Jakins, Charlie Struss, Isaac Brosnan, Roly Brosnan and David Hart. Substitutes: Mitchell Adams, Jack McGrath

Basketball: Flynn Halfpenny, Nicholas Wigan, Shay Morton, Bryn Rogers, Reilly Gall, Sam Grabbe, Mitchell Lovett, Fergus White, Fred Perrottet and Angus Wilshire.

Tennis: Harry King, Nicholas Rowan, Tom Coggan, Kelsey Neucom, Edward McDonnell and Hugh Green.

12.2. The time is near … Wallabies V All Blacks, 20 October 2012.

We have front row tickets, and if we were any closer to the field we would be playing! Tickets are selling fast in Prep’s trip to the Wallabies on the 20th October, 2012. The tickets are only $70 each this year, including return coach transport. The ticket price remains the same even if you are making your own way to the stadium. Tickets cannot be reserved without payment, to be fair for all. We have great seats, we will have great company and there is no doubt that it will be a brilliant night as always. Please complete the payment form at the back of the Prep News to secure your tickets. Suncorp Stadium will no doubt be full to capacity with a sell-out crowd, so we must request that all child ticket holders are accompanied by a paying adult.

12.3. Toowoomba Cricket Trials

Congratulations to the players who have been trialling for the Toowoomba Cricket teams for the past two weeks. Selections were very tight, and with the calibre of players present, the final decisions were very close. All of our Prepies put on a fantastic show, and those who were successful were…

11 Years Team: Will Jakins and Darby Morgan

12 Years City Team: Will Wigan, Sam Morris and Oliver Hammond

Rosie Dixon has also gained a place in the Girls Toowoomba team and will go through to Darling Downs trials.

12.4. Churchie V Toowoomba Prep Tennis Tournament – Thursday, 6 September 2012

Good luck to the 8 representative teams from Prep that will travel to Churchie for the Invitational Tennis Tournament this Thursday. I have been to watch the teams train of a morning, and the students play of a lunch, and we have some fantastic talent on the court. Look out Churchie!

TERM 3 DATES

Monday 16 July –

Thursday 20 September

TERM 4 DATES

Monday 8 October –Wednesday 28 November

Mr Rick LingardSports and Activities Coordinator

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6TH

12.5. Netball Super Camp for players and prospective Coaches, 5-7 October 2012

There will be a Netball Super Camp conducted again this year, from the 5th – 7th October. There will be specialist qualified coaches working on ball skills, footwork, defence, attacking and position play. There are also opportunities for parents to complete coaching, umpiring and mentoring courses. The Firebirds are set to attend the camp, along with some very experienced and established coaches. There are details on the Toowoomba Netball site, alternatively, please email me at activities@tmbaprep.qld.edu.au and I can forward you a copy of the Camp information and registration.

12.6. Football South West Queensland Football Clinic

Football Queensland will be holding a Holiday Clinic over the coming school holidays conducted by “Mr Magic”, Richard Mitchell. The clinic will run from 9am – 11.30am, 25 – 27 September 2012 at the Captain Cook Ovals, McGregor St Toowoomba. For more information, please call Janelle Sothmann on 07 46624261, or collect a registration form from the Office.

12.7. Junior Football (Soccer) Coaching Course – 20 & 21 October 2012

There will be a Junior Licence held in Toowoomba on Sat/Sun 20th/21st October at West Wanderers Fields, Hume St Toowoomba from 8.30am-4.30pm each day. The Instructor will be David Nugent, 0417 562 075. This is the link for the course - Participants need to register ONLINE to attend the course. This will be the FINAL Junior Licence for this year.

https://coaching.footballaustralia.com.au/public/coaching/course.asp?UDF35=223&courseID=57558&courseFull=0

12.8. Toowoomba and District Primary School Chess Tournament, Tuesday, 4 September 2012.

Well done to our Chess Teams on a fine representation of Toowoomba Prep at the Toowoomba Chess Championships. Prep’s A division team was awarded second overall, by the slightest margin of half a point. Well done to all competitions, and congratulations to the A Team, Shay Morton, Gaurav Ramnanan, Noah Orford and Jack Wagner on their successes. The four boys will now go on to represent Toowoomba in the State Chess Championships. We ask the boys to please bring to school their trophies on Thursday, 13 September so that we can take a group photo with the other representative teams.

12.9. Queensland Primary Schools Touch, CLEVELAND SHOWGROUNDS – REDLANDS, Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th November

At this point we have listed three teams of boys and three teams of girls. Any child not on the list is welcome to train and we will be looking at the possibility of adding teams to the competition if required. The only limitation is seats on the bus, so if we have people travelling down to the event and back we can fit more children into the competition.

This will be the third year that Toowoomba Prep has attended the QPST. Each team is put into a Group or Pool. On the Saturday we play the preliminary rounds, 3 or 4 games. The past two years we have asked for early games, departing at 5:00 am, and have been back in Toowoomba by 2:30 pm. Sunday is the knock out part of the tournament. When you lose on the Sunday you are out. They have a three tiered competition on the Sunday e.g. if you finish third in your pool you generally play all the other teams that finished third. Also there is a trophy, a shield and a plate final on the Sunday. The teams listed below are only for record purposes and are not necessarily the final team selections.

Additional Names

ALLPASS, Phoebe WILSON, Eliza BRODIE, Rosemary LUBBE, Hanlie

BALLINGER, Hilary ANDERSON, Isabel BUTLER, Lauren ARNOTT, Lucy

CHICALAS, Lizzie BECCARIA, Alicia CURRAN, Jessica KENNEDY, Sophie

FINLAY, Alexandra MCGILVRAY, Lucy GOLDEN, Isabel MAGOFFIN, Kate

HOUSE, Felicity MCLEAN, Sara WAUGH, Kate SOMERSET, Gemma

KILLEN, Meg MUNRO, Alice WHITE, Lucy WHITTLE, Grace

MACTAGGART, Annabel PARKER, Phoebe JOSELAND, Bella

PETERSEN, Louise WARBY, Zara LUBBE, Hanlie

SMYTH, Hayley SANDS, Madeline PEARSON, Ella

ADAMS, Mitchell GREEN, Hamish LEE, Joshua DONALDSON, Bill

BROSNAN, Roly AGAR, Harry DONALDSON, Jake HARRIS, Wyllie

COTTLE, Harry ARMSTRONG, Oliver EDWARDS, William SLACK, Jack

GRIGG, Lachlan BROSNAN, Isaac GALL, Reilly

JAKINS, Angus HUGHES, Tom HAMMOND, Oliver

MCGRATH, Jack KING, Harry MCVEIGH, Andrew

MOLLER, James MCNAMEE, Hugh WIGAN, Nicholas

MORRIS, Samuel ROGERS, Bryn HARRISON, Jack

WIGAN, William STOKES, Lincoln O'HARA, Jackson

WILLIS, Nathan WILSHIRE, Angus

WHITE, Fergus

12.10. Toowoomba Mountaineers Basketball Camp, September 20 – 23.

The Toowoomba Mountaineers are holding a Basketball Camp these holidays from September 20 – 23 at the Toowoomba Basketball Stadium in Water Street. The camp is tailored to get children ready for the Term 4 Primary School Basketball Competition, and will be attended by the Mountaineers. The camp will run each day from 9am – 3pm, for ages 5 to 12 year olds. For more details or to register, please contact Darren Mentor on 0428 393 344 or email office@toowoombabasketball.com.

12.11. Softball and Basketball are back!

Any students who are interested in playing Basketball are encouraged to attend training and put their name down to participate. Permission forms will then be sent to home closer to competition starting.

• Softball: Mr David Wigan will be coaching Softball, training commenced on Monday, 3 September from 3:45 – 4:45pm on Jordan Oval. Any students from Years 5 to 7 wishing to trial for Andrews Cup Softball are invited to attend the Monday coaching sessions. More training sessions will be added as our Winter sports come to a close.

• Basketball: We are fortunate to have a fantastic line up of coaches put their name down to lead our teams to victory. Many thanks to our new coaches for volunteering their time. Basketball this year will consist of teams for Years 7, 6 and 5. Any children who are able to and want to play from Years 3 – 5, are invited to participate in

the Year 5 teams. Year 5 Basketball training will be in the Millennium Centre, while Years 6 and 7 will be at the Wirra Wirra Courts. The cost of this activity will be $45.00 per player for the season. Training has commenced in the last few weeks of this Term, with competition starting in Term 4.

• • Year 5 girls: Mrs Sally Wiltshire and Mrs Kylie Briggs

• • Year 5 boys: Mr John White and Mr Reuben Lawrence

• • Year 6 girls: Ms Tanya Hopgood and Mrs Kylie Briggs

• • Year 6 boys: Mrs Bethany Graham

• • Year 7 girls: Mrs Catherine Mina and Mr Ben Gouldson

• • Year 7 boys: Mr David Wigan, Mr Nick Edgar and Mr Aaron Helenberg.

The following children have expressed interest in participating in Friday afternoon Basketball. If you would like your child to participate, please complete the attached permission slip. If your child is not on the below list and would like to participate, please also complete the below slip, so that their name can also be passed on to the coaches.

Year 5 and below girlsAnnabelle Wilshire, Christiana Patsalou, Georgia Gouldson, Jasmine Karras, Kate Moule,

Year 6 GirlsGisele Hopgood, Camille Fitton, Lauren Young

Year 7 GirlsIsabel Anderson, Zara Warby, Alice Munro, Hilary Ballinger, Isabel Fitton, Brianna McCumstie, Holly Gall, Louise Petersen, Lucinda Brodie

Year 5 and below BoysRavish Moodley, Will Bucknell, Davan Morton, Campbell Snow, John Golden, Matthew Sands, WilJauncey, Claude Wilshire, Ryan Oroge, UdomWala, Charlie Wigan, William Lawrence, Max Harrison, Cameron McConville, Taylor Silk, Charlie Paynter, Joseph Goh

Year 6 BoysQuinn Gscheidle, Harrison Hills, Darby Morgan, Jack Edwards, Edward Imray, James Kleidon, Rob Vickers, William Boyce, Lachlan Nicholls, Alex Salikin, Robbie Blowes-Sargent, Samuel Wright, Hamish Donaldson, Harry Carrigan, Jack Robinson, Kyle Imlah

Year 7 BoysJack McGrath, Mitchell Adams, Mitchell Lovett, Oliver Armstrong, William Wigan, Angus Winten, William Melbourne, Angus Jakins, Bryn Rogers, Jack Slack, Samuel Grabbe, Hugh McNamee, Nicholas Wigan, Shay Morton, Charles Struss, Reilly Gall, Jack McLean, James Moller, Roy Munro, Bill Donaldson, Jackson O’Hara, Wyllie Harris, Hamish Green, Jake Donaldson, Angus Wilshire, Fred Perrottet, William Edwards, Baker Harms, Baxter McCamley, Cameron Anderson, Jack Harrison, Kelsey Neucom, William Dight, Baxter Farquharson, Angus Wilson

12.12. Saturday Sport Participation Trophy

Thank you again to all of our fantastic coaches, your work is appreciated by all, and will be recognised publicly at assembly in the not too distant future. All coaches are now able to pick up their team’s Saturday Sports Participation Trophies from the Activities Office and distribute to their teams.

12.13. Met East Cricket sign on afternoon – Friday, 7 September.

Met East’s are still looking for budding Bradman’s to join their teams. This Friday, 7 September, Met East will be visiting Prep for anyone interested in signing up for Cricket this season. The Met East team will be at Main School from 3pm – 3.30pm to sign players up and answer any questions. All students are invited to join, and registration packs can be collected on the afternoon, or atwww.metsjuniors.com. The Mets team will endeavour to assist us with keeping our age groups of players together, depending on the numbers that they receive. For any additional information, please contact Fleur Koch on 0418 676 759 or email at metsjuniors@gmail.com.

12.14. Saturday Football (Soccer) Fixtures – Saturday, 8 September

This weekend also sees the conclusion of our soccer fixtures for the season with teams U6 to U10 playing Highfields at Highfields. Well done to all of our Teams through the season for giving it their best, and playing with Prep Spirit. Watching our younger players grow, we are reminded of how well they have done. Thank-you also to the Coaches for their tireless efforts and commitment to sharing these experiences with the players.

Age Team Opponent Time Place

Under 6 U6 Wright Highfields Breakers 09:40am Highfields Field 6

Under 7 U7 Prep Martin Highfields Fury 12:20pm Highfields Field 5

Under 8 U8 Prep Hood Highfields Wildcats 10:40am Highfields Field 4

Under 10 U10 Prep Murray Highfields Tigers 10:00am Highfields Field 2

12.15. Netball Canteen Duty -Please Help

Thank you to Trina Sands, Naomi Golden, Andrea Genest, Bethany Graham and Ali Drysdale for offering to assist with our final Canteen Duty for the season. Our last Canteen duty is from 11:00am – 12:15pm, and directly following that, we get to watch our U12a Team Drysdales fight for victory in the Grand Final match from 12:15 to 1:30pm. If any parents or coaches can also assist with duty for the day, it would be a huge help, and then we can all watch the Grand Finals together. Please call or email the front Office if you are able to help out.

12.16. Netball Fixtures – Grand Final Time!!!

Congratulations to all of our Teams on making it through to the end of the Season with such style!

• Our Netta teams had a great last game followed by a sausage sizzle on the weekend which is not a bad way to end the season, as I was told by a few sauce covered smiles.

• Team Parker played an amazing 4 quarters, only to get knocked out in the last quarter by the smallest of margins. Well done on a great effort by Coach Parker and the Team.

Now we are at the business end, as Team Drysdale plays against Rata Kristin in the Grand Finals at 12:15pm on Saturday. Good luck to the team…

Coach Ali Drysdale, Phoebe Allpass, Lucy Arnott, Hillary Ballinger, Jessica Bridle, Lizzie Chicalas, Jessica Curran, Isabel Golden, Felicity House, Hayley Smyth and Gemma Somerset!

If you are able to come and support the team, please do … we want as many Prepies there as we can to bring the team home!

Coach Team Name Game Opponent Court

Miss Ali Drysdale 12A Drysdale 12:15pm Rata Kristin 4

12.17. Representative Teams Sports Photos – Thursday, 13 September

Team photographs will be taken on Thursday, 13 September, for athletes who participated in the following representative teams this term; A Group Chess Team, Andrews Cup Athletics Team, Range Zone Athletics, Darling Downs Athletics, JSA Athletics and JB Adams Athletic and Andrew’s Cup Netball teams. There will also be photos taken of the Andrews Cup Senior A1 Touch Team and Girls Friday Senior A2 Touch team. The photos will be taken at the handball courts outside the Chapel at 10:40am. Please bring your sports/netball uniforms on this day for photos please.

13. FORTHCOMING EVENTS – Details are available on the school’s private web.