Students at Our Lady of the Way Catholic Primary School at Wallan East embraced the school’s house colours on Friday afternoon at the school’s twilight sports carnival.
In warm conditions, students from foundation to grade six, with the support of their parents and school staff, participated in several sporting activities, including sprints, long jump, shot put, modified javelin and novelty events for younger grades.
Sport teacher Cristian Stella said the decision for a twilight event was so everyone could be involved at this year’s sport carnival, which focused on athletics.
“We decided to have a twilight event, something that parents could show up after work, something that students were able to hopefully go into the cool part of the day, although it’s really quite hot still – it’s also just a nice sort of vibe around the school,” he said.
“We’ve really focused on the athletic side of it, so the fields and track events, whereas past years, we brought in some sporting activities like soccer, basketball or football.”
As four house colours – green, purple, blue and orange – competed to win the athletics cup, fellow students cheered on their classmates, even towards the end when students ran in the relays.
Mr Stella the students were ‘pumped’ to have a go at the sporting activities.
“Overall, we would just want the kids to have a positive attitude to sport – that’s why we do these things,” he said.
“I think having a fair go is super important, the world we live in today – inclusivity is at an all-time high as it should be – it’s something that we can promote in a school setting more than anywhere else, as well as building resilience, teamwork.
“It’s been really good to see the younger ones cheer the older ones, older ones cheer the younger ones and everything in between, it’s been really awesome.”