Miniball Week 3

Outram Red vs. Elmgrove
A high scoring game from the Reds this week against a younger, inexperienced team who didn’t even get a chance to shoot. Everyone bar one in the Reds scored baskets, and while not great for Elmgrove, was good for our team to get a taste of scoring baskets. Top scorer this week was Sarah J with 7 baskets. Player of the day went to Nathan C for illustrating what good teamwork is all about - defence, attack, passing to your fellow team mates and calm, controlled play. Score: 56/0 to Outram.

Outram White vs St Mary's
The game was fantastic, Outram won 18/12. Both sides showed maximum participation
levels. Player of the day was awarded to Luke K for many shots in from the three point line, its a shame in mini ball
they don't count three pointers! Well done to all other players.
Liam J [Team captain]

Outram Yr 7/8 vs Taieri College
Another successful week of miniball for the Outram Blues. With a score of 24-12 the team played great and created a couple of good blocks so the lay-ups went in the hoop. Emily B retreived or tipped some great rebounds while at the other end of the court the shots went up and in by Cam M and Isaac T. Defence was tight and Sam Y stole the ball from the opposition and had the defence under control.
Well Done.
By Hayley M

Week 2 Miniball

Outram Yr 7/8 vs Fairfield
30-4. What a great score again this week for the Outram Blues. They worked well on defence and recovered the rebounds. Cam M ran the full court well and as a team we marked players on defence. The shooting was timed and the team spaced out well. The team supported each other and shared the ball round. Well Done
By Hayley M
Outram Red vs. St Mary’s
Another great game to watch from our Outram Red team this week! Zara S had a blistering game, showing great timing in defence. The whole team worked well supporting each other, were committed in defence and read the game well. Player of the day was Taine R who illustrated good teamwork – passing to fellow team mates, good defence and attacking skills. Baskets scored: Zara S 4, Taine R, 2, Bradley H 1. Score: 16/4 to Outram.

West Taieri Under 8's

Lexy’s last game of rugby

On Saturday 10th May, West Taieri U8’s went to Brighton for our first game of tackle rugby. It was awesome. It was also Lexy S’ last game as she is off to play Netball. The coach said “come on lets get on the field and start the game!” So off we went onto the field. West Taieri was starting first with the ball. The coach blew his whistle and we were off. We were on fire smashing through people trying to get tries. Our first try was scored by Logan T from Middlemarch. We were trying to hang on but they were so good and they got a try. Suddenly like we weren’t expecting it the whistle blew for half time. “Back to the field” called the coach. Brighton started with the ball first. Off they went blasting past us then a big guy banged Harry down and scored a try OUCH! Then there was a big ruck. Benjamin saw the ball poking out and he pulled it out and scored a try. Logan G scored another try but it wasn’t enough and the end score was Brighton 4 tries, West Taieri 3 tries. Benjamin was player of the day and Harry tackler of the day. Lexy gave each of us a bag of lollies at the end. We will miss her.

By Hunter D

Activ8 2008

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Activ8 Schools Challenge-Bronze Medal Winners

On Tuesday 13th of May eight Yr 6 Outram students went to a Dunedin Schools team challenge called Activ8. We had lots of fun doing different challenges and working together as a team. We came first in the team adventure challenge, where we had to do different activities working as a team. For each activity we did a P.M.I chart for what we thought of that activity. The challenges were hard but we completed most of them without to much trouble. After doing the team adventure challenge we had a little break then we went on to a physical challenge. We had to go on n confidence course running around the field. We also had to do some throwing into a bucket what ever score we got (123) got taken off the time of the confidence course. The last round for the day was a food and nutrition competition. We had to make a silly salad and build a food pyramid. At the end of the day we had a quiz we got most of the answers right. Overall we came 3rd out of 31 schools which is a fantastic achievement considering the size of our school. Members of the team were- Alesiha A, Nicola L, Shelby B, Celine T, Wilson M, Joseph M, James M and Dougal B.
By Nicola L and Aleisha A

Outram Whites vs East Taieri

The game was very interesting both teams played well. Fair play was shown by both teams.The final score was 6-14 to East Taieri.
Overall the game was very enjoyable to watch and to play. Player of the day is awarded to Aleshia A for scoring a goal on her
first game ever. She walked in not having any idea what to do and walked out with a lot of pride in her performance.
Liam J [Team member]

Outram School Basketball

Year 7/8 Basketball
Yesterday the Outram year 7/8 miniball team played Port Chalmers. The score at half time was 4-16 to us and the final score was 38-12 to us. Cameron M had a fantastic game controlling the tempo and bringing the ball up the court. Hayley M played very well for her first time and Bayley G played well shooting most of our goals. We played really well and worked well as a team. This was a great way to start the season considering we are defending champions and are going to play teams which are going to be physically a lot bigger.
By Emily B
Year 4/5 Miniball
Yesterday the year 4/5 miniball team played Silversteam. The score was 14-0 to us . Zara S scored 4 baskets Eli N scored a basket and Georgia B scored 8 . On the whole our team played very well. We only got penalised for fouling a couple of times. Hopefully we do just as well in all our other games .
By Georgia B and Zara S

Basketball season about to begin

The basketball season is beginning next week for all Outram teams. We have two teams entered in the Taieri schools competition held at Memorial gymnasium in Mosgiel. Our year 7/8 team will play in the Dunedin Intermediate competition held at the Edgar Centre. Training's are school based at lunchtimes and we have parent managers for the Reds and Whites for game day. The students have been training hard and we are expecting good results from all three of our teams!

Wakatipu-Rugby League Champions!!

House League Grand Final

The Rugby League grand final was played on Monday 5th May. The final was played between Wakatipu and Mahinerangi. Both teams were cheered on by the entire school who came out to watch the final. It was a very tough battle with only a try seperating the teams at halftime. Wakatipu scored early in the second half and held on to their lead to win the game 24-20. Players to stand out were Isaac T, Sam Y and Charlie G all from Wakatipu. Cam M and Tessa B played really well for Mahinerangi. Well done to both teams for great sportsmanship throughout the tournament. We will be holding a 7 a side Soccer tournament later in the term.