Basketball a great team sport at EPS

Posted on August 2, 2012 by mwalker


I thought I might show a bit of this clip at the start of my meeting this week with the Year 5/6 students as they prepare for the annual Hoop Time Basketball competition. Each year we enter around 15 teams across the 3 divisions (all-star, future stars and rookies). In 2011 our Year 4 boys team won the state finals.

Basketball is a very popular sport at EPS with a quick poll indicating that we had over 30% of our students registered in 24 teams coached by parents and others competing in after school competitions. The student demand to improve their skills led to a recent initiative offering specialised clinics after school.

For me one of highlights each year is the smile and joy of our rookies as they score their first points in a game. Last year I recall one of students on the disabilities program score a basket and the cheers were heard all around the stadium. I know I enjoy coaching the Hoop Time and regular school competition teams and as the Principal it gives me an opportunity to get to know the students in a different context which has to be good.

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4 Responses to Basketball a great team sport at EPS

  1. Ben, Ben, Tom, Otis says:
    August 13, 2012 at 11:38 am

    I agree with Finn and Seb. Even to make it to the Olympics is amazing.. Australia has a small population, so we might not win as much as countries like America or China and England hosted it this year so they should get more gold medals than us….

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  2. Ella says:
    August 13, 2012 at 11:34 am

    I thought that weird it was that only 60% of children do out of school sport becasue almost all of our pupils in our school do out of school sport.

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  3. Jazzy and Ella says:
    August 13, 2012 at 11:29 am

    We find that they are blaming our olympians for not winning enough gold medals at the london olympics 2012(even though we believe they did well)and that our genaration for the upcoming olympics has no chance in winning gold because apparently we are lazy and dont do any sport in or out of school.

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  4. seb finn says:
    August 13, 2012 at 11:23 am

    i think that that is a pretty rich comment from nick green. To make it to the olympics in anything is a wonderful acheivment and im not sure why nick green has a problem with aus coming 10th on the medal tally. we think that aus has done a great job and were very proud of all the olympians. IF YOUR NOT HAPPY WITH OUR RESAULT THATS OK BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU WIN GOLD AT RIO 2016
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    ESTELLABOY1 and THE GENIUS

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