Our Secondary students shone at the ACC Senior Netball Championship Carnival last week, with both Carramar and Duncraig sending a squad. When neither team made it to the finals, they united to play a fun ‘friendly’ match. What a great display of teamwork from our students!
Senior Boys Basketball Team have capped off a successful season with the announcement that they are the overall CAS winners for 2020! The boys will now play in the ACC knockout rounds, playing against the top schools from across WA for the Championship title. The first game is this Wednesday at 4pm in the Duncraig Gym so be sure to come along and cheer them on.
Congratulations to:
Crystal Edwards
Charlie Harnett
Ella Popham
Oliver Bridgman
Who were all selected into the ACC All Stars Swim Squad for 2020.
The ACC Inter school was cancelled due to COVID-19, so their selection was based on their performances at Inter House.
Matt Richmond
Head Of Learning Area
Health & Physical Education
Yesterday’s ACC Athletics Carnival saw Duncraig Secondary students excel across track and field at HBF Stadium. Falling short of third place by just one point, our athletes placed an impressive fourth overall, with the Junior Girls, Senior Girls and Overall Girls named the Champions in their divisions!
St Stephen’s School was well-represented at the recent ACC Cross Country Carnival, with Duncraig Secondary placing 12th out of a whopping 80 schools! Well done to all our runners for their terrific efforts.
Duncraig Secondary rounded off the swimming season yesterday with an impressive performance at the A Division ACC Swimming Carnival! Placing sixth overall as a School, Crystal Edwards (Year 10) broke three ACC records and was the Individual Age Champion for Under 16 Girls, while Tom Anderson (Year 9) took out the Individual Age Champion for Under 15 Boys. Ella Popham (Year 7), Oliver Bridgman (Year 8) and Glenda Morgan (Year 12) also placed in the Top Four for their age groups. Congratulations to all our swimmers!
In a hard-fought competition, Duncraig Secondary’s Athletics Team achieved third place at the ACC Athletics Carnival on Monday! It was a massive day of sprints, jumps and throws at the WA Athletics Stadium, with our girls even taking out the Overall Girls Shield.
Congratulations everyone!
Facing some challenging weather conditions, the Cross Country runners battled through to place seventh out of 75 schools at the ACC Cross Country yesterday! Special mentions go to Rachael Edwards (Year 12) who placed fourth in the Under 19 Girls and Remy Rowse (Year 9) who achieved the bronze position in the Under 13 Girls race.
Go St Stephen’s!
“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” – Hebrews 12:11-12
Dear Parents of Swimmers competing in the Inter-School Competition
At the ACC Council of Principals meeting on the 5th April , we were presented with some background and history on the time frame of the ACC A Division Swimming Carnival. The carnival was originally held on a Friday evening and then in the early 1980’s was moved to an “in school” time model. During the 1980’s and early 1990’s student spectator numbers were very high with the stands usually full, but with very few parents at the carnivals. From the mid 1990’s to the current day, there has been a steady decline in student spectator numbers to the point that most ACC swimming carnivals have few or no student spectators. During the same time period the number of Parent spectators has increased and the overall standard of the meets has improved in terms of swimming and event management.
The ACC Council was then asked to consider undertaking some research with the ACC schools and community to ascertain if the general consensus is that we should consider moving the A Division Swimming Carnival back to a twilight/evening event. The purpose being to increase the opportunity for families to attend the carnival and to raise the community profile of our top swimming division. At this point in time there is no suggestion to move the other carnival divisions. The move would also allow other divisions opportunity to swim indoors.
Community Survey
The ACC is conducting a “Have Your Say!” survey through social media channels. This is simply to provide a snapshot of community thinking on the suggestion and a rough gauge of interest in making the change. The community survey will be open to anyone to complete. Schools have a part to play in helping the ACC gauge community thoughts on this matter. Should you wish to voice your thoughts, the link to the public survey is below.
ACC Social Media Survey – Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KMH9GVZ
Bruce Titlestad
Head of Secondary School
Following on from our outstanding performance in the recent A Division Carnival, the following have been selected in the ACC All Stars Swim Team:
Crystal Edwards
Eliza Hodder
Lauren Gastevich
Tenzin Pepper
Tom Anderson
Zachary Anderson
The Swimming All Stars Team is an “All ACC” honorary team consisting of the best two performers in each event across all divisions of carnival. In relay events the best four indvidual 50m performers are selected. All students selected in the All Stars team are presented with a badge and certificate of acknowledgment from the ACC. Age champions and record breakers are also acknowledged with a certificate from the ACC. Outstanding students that achieve the feat of All Star selection in the same sport for four years will be eligible to receive ACC Letters.
Matt Richmond
HOLA Health & Physical Education & Teacher of Psychology