Ribbons awarded for Swimming
- Huon P won the 18 year old boys age champion at the ACT Schools Swimming Championship after placing 2nd in the 17-19 year old boys 50m freestyle and 3rd in the 50m backstroke and 100m breaststroke events.
- Avya N came 1st in 12 year old 100m butterfly and 3rd in the 100m freestyle events at the South Weston Regional Swimming Carnival.
Ribbons awarded for Athletics
We were represented by a solid crew of High School athletes at the South Secondary Athletics Carnival.
- Amelia M – 12 Girls High Jump – 3rd
- Havish K – 12 Boys Discuss – 3rd
- Georgia B – 14 Girls Javelin – 1st
- Shari G – 14 Girls 200m – 3rd
- Stella M – 14 Girls Javelin – 3rd
- Kiernan L – 14 Boys 1500m – 2nd
- Charlotte K – 16 Girls Javelin – 1st
- Katya R – 16 Girls Javelin – 3rd & 16 Girls 200m – 3rd
- Ruby S – 16 Girls 800m – 2nd & 16 Girls 1500m – 1st
- Hugo B – 16 Boys High Jump – 2nd
Of our 32 participating students, 9 athletes have qualified across 14 events for the ACT Secondary Schools Championship later this year:
- Hugo B – Boys 16 High Jump
- Shari G – Girls 14 100m, 200m, and 1500m
- Tommy J – Boys 13 1500m
- Charlotte K – Girls 16 Shot Put, and Javelin
- Kiernan L – Boys 14 1500m
- Stella M – Girls 14 Javelin
- Katya R – Girls 16 200m, and Javelin
- Ruby S – Girls 16 800m, and 1500m
- Xanthe T – Girls 13 High Jump
Well done to all participating students and thank you again Billy and Ana for your efforts to enable our students to do so well and have an enjoyable and successful day.
We were also represented by enthusiastic Primary School athletes at the Regional Primary School Athletics Carnival. It was an amazing opportunity for some students to gain experience away from home ground.
These students qualified for the following events:
Veera P – 11 year old girls 800m with 3rd place
Maja S – 12 year old girls discuss with 3rd place and shot put with 1st place.
Honourable mentions go to Avya N for coming 4th in the 12 year old girls shot put and Leon M for coming 4th in the 12 year old boys shot put.
Netball Gala Day
Last week we were able to support a group of students at the Year 9/10 Girls Netball Gala Day. Our students were wonderfully supported by Isabella Scott (far left in photo) through a busy day, with many close games. Overall, our students demonstrated great positivity with each other, and their opposing teams, which culminated in a breakthrough win in their final game of the day.
Additional highlights include Charlotte (Class 10) representing our school through her work umpiring for most of the Gala Day as each school needed to supply a teacher supervisor and an umpire. It was also wonderful to hear of multiple team-mates in the Orana Netball Team who, without any prompting, stepped up to umpire later in the day to allow Charlotte some game time.
The Orana Game Development Team
Four Year 10 students were recently awarded participation certificates for their submission to the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge. Their creativity and coding skills shone through as they explored game development and design. Inspired by this experience, the students are eager to expand their game development team at Orana, bringing in fresh ideas and collaboration. With newfound enthusiasm and ambition, they are already setting their sights on achieving even greater success in next year’s Challenge.
The winter is for snowboarding
Zaffa has been participating in the full-time Perisher Winter Sports snowboarding program. This is the fourth year he has participated. He has also been fortunate to do two other intensives in the northern hemisphere in the past two years.
Zaffa trains 5 days a week with a range of coaches. He is primarily a “park/slopestyle” snowboarder (rails and large jumps) but he also competes in “freeride” – where runs are on ungroomed snow over natural features. Zaffa now competes primarily in under 18 and under 19 events (termed “junior” in the snow sports world).
Zaffa won the junior NSW and ACT interschools snowboard slopestyle (competing as Orana’s only representative). He won the Thredbo junior Thredbo snowboard Battle of the Bluff (a freeride event). He also won the Perisher junior rail jam (snowboard – tricks on rails). Well done Zaffa for such a series of major achievements.
Australian Maths Competition
Orana had many students participate in the Australian Maths Competition with quite a few being recognised with awards.
We congratulate the following students for the following:
Participation Award – Wynter B (Class 4), Aaryan U (Class 7), Emily H (Class 9).
Proficiency Award – Banjo B-J (Class 7), Emily E (Class 7), Harris B (Class 8), Luka I (Class 8), Keirnan L (Class 8), Ampledeep S (Class 8), Hugo B (Class 10), Dexter H (Class 10).
Credit Award – Leonardo F (Class 7), Franscesco M (Class 8).
Distinction Award – Charlie C (Class 8), Alexander F (Class 8), Rufus S (Class 8), Liam S (Class 10).
