Health & Physical Education

HPE Scheduled Excursions

This term the HPE department began a new initiative in offering our students the opportunity to attend off campus PE focused excursions. This term the Year 8’s have been participating in a Basketball curriculum focus with scheduled excursions to the Treager Basketball courts. There they’ve been able to develop their skills, teamwork abilities and competitive sportsmanship in a new environment all the while modelling the expectations of Respect, Responsibility and Fairness to the local Alice Springs community.

Alongside the year 8s, the Year 9s have also had this opportunity offered to as they’ve kicked off their ultimate frisbee curriculum focus. Students have been regularly participating in drills, minor games and Ultimate Frisbee rotations to develop their agility in a more unfamiliar but still very enjoyable and engaging sport. Their excursions have taken them to the YMCA where they’ve been able to play competitively against each other in teams to develop their sportsmanship skills and teamwork.

Kicking off HPE

HPE this year has kicked off with a BANG! Having a new generation of energetic and engaging Year 7’s their curriculum of team games and teamwork skills has generated a lot of excitement and participation across the school. We’ve seen their energy overflow to lunch time activities where they’ve had a great start to group sports and engaging with their fellow CMS peers. Lunch time activities continues to be a hot spot for activities, fun and positive engagement all around.

Weights Program

This year CMS has started a a Weights and Fitness program lead by Callum Downie a semi-professional weightlifting and supervised by HPE staff. This program gives a select group of young people opportunities to develop their strength, fitness and weightlifting ability in a safe and engaging space. The students participating have shown great dedication and commitment in coming during part of their lunch time to participate in this Program. This program will run till the end of term with selected participation and potential opportunities for competitive lifting later down the track.