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Sport, sport and more sport

By Jared and Toby

Have you ever wondered why everyone gets to play outside, when you’re stuck inside?

Inside doing inside stuff? Like maths, reading and literacy? Well, kids in Year 4, 5 and 6 (on Friday mornings) are doing a sort of activity called P.S.S.A (Primary School Sports Association). In P.S.S.A. you can do a wide variety of sports.

P.S.S.A. SPORTS

PSSA = Primary School Sports Association!

Cricket, the sport with the three sticks in the ground (A.K.A the wickets). There are two batters, one on each end of the pitch which they run to either side. The batters, they hold the responsibility to hit the ball with their bat as far as they can so they can get runs (like points) for the team. The ball is red, pink or white, with a seam that looks like stitching but isn’t. It gets thrown at the batters and they then have to hit the ball as hard and as accurately as they can. Cricket is a naturally exciting, engaging and, fun sport.

 

T-ball, the one that you hit the (soft) ball with what looks like a baseball bat but is completely different from baseball in the way you hit the ball and how you hit the ball off a tee (which is kind of like a stand). It’s not someone pegging it at your face (trust me), so you can take your time. It has four bases to run to, including home base, first base, second base and third base (pretty easy to remember, I think). If the fielder throws it and the person at the base catches it before the batsman makes it to the base, the batsman is out and everyone starts booing and saying ‘you suck’. Nah just kidding, they pat you on the back and say things like, ‘Well done mate, but unlucky!’, like a complete Aussie. You have to run around to all of the bases to get a home run for your team. It is a fun and supporting game.

 

Eagle Tag/Oztag, this game’s aim is very similar to rugby, except you have tags waist height, and when you get the ball and your tag falls off or gets pulled off, you play the ball under your legs like rugby. (also, a  pretty tiring work out!).

 

Netball, the sport where there is a net (like basketball) and a ball (also like basketball). However, it is very different to basketball because once you get the ball, you can’t dribble, you have to stay in the same spot. Also there are no positions, unlike basketball.

 

Softball, pretty much the same as T-ball but there is a person in the middle who underarms the ball at the batter (which is slightly harder, no respect for the name) who either swings the bat at the ball or leaves it. Like T-ball, there are four bases and all that stuff.

 

User- pay sports

 

First up, Tennis. Tennis is a sport that consists of strategy, accuracy and positioning. In the program you play doubles and singles, partner or no partner. In this programme you can learn how to position yourself and become a god at Tennis.

 

Next, Lawn Bowls. Although some may think it is boring, it consists of some very fun things, like strategy, scoring and precision. Also, one side of the ball has a sticker that is smaller than the one on the other side, and the ball sort of drifts to the side of the small sticker.

 

Finally, Swimming. Ahh, the classic, swimming. Everyone knows about swimming. It is a life skill. Let us list all the benefits it gives: can save your life, beach water is mean and it is a naturally fun sport.

 

School Sport

 

Hey! What about School Sport? ‘What do you mean, we would never forget school sport *cough cough thanks Toby cough cough*. School sport is a fun way to enjoy school, because, it’s free and very ‘breathtaking’. As you all know, school can be a boring sort of wake up to (just joking), so you’re like, ”Oh dang, it’s school today.” But then you realise that it’s school sport. “YEAH TODAY IS THE DAY I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!”. In School Sport you can do all kinds of activities like, doing activities with a medicine ball, running up and down stairs, doing different patterns on a stepping ladder, etc.

[Editor’s note: Clearly, the authors are not particularly well acquainted with the School Sports program because Miss Mersky was setting up for Volleyball and Skipping amongst other things. Maybe she was getting the medicine ball out for Volleyball?)

 

You have to pay for User-pays (hence the name) and P.S.S.A. Your teacher will give you a permission note. Your teacher will ask what sport you would like to play and you can choose any of the sports included above. Your teacher will inform you whether or not the sport is for boys or girls. You don’t have to do a trial to get into User-pays sports or School Sport (however you will have to pay for user pay sports).

 

Warning: You may not make it into a P.S.S.A team, and if you don’t and there are any spots for user pay sports left, you may join. If not, don’t worry, you can still do school sport which, as we stated earlier, it’s amazingly fun like the other sports.