Outram Touch

Blues-To be honest we had an average game this week with some simple errors that cost us a few points. But in the end we pulled off the win 7-3 against Taieri College. Sophie M had a great game scoring 2 tries for the team.
Whites- It was a good game with a 5-2 win to the Outram Whites team against Fairfield. David D scored a great try so did Ayden Mc, Christie W and Joshua A both scored tries. Neither of the teams were great on defence but the Whites were fast enough to get 5 tries before the end of the game. It was a very exciting game for all of us.
Reds-The Reds has a loss to St Marys. The Reds played really well in the first half with some great two person splits moves scoring easy tries. The team tired in the second half and let St Marys score the winning try late in the second half. Players to stand out were Aleisha A and Cam M.

Touch-Week1

The Blues and Reds both started with a draw for the season. The Whites had a big loss but were playing a team older and more experienced. The Reds had a 4 all draw with Elmgrove, the team played really well and moved the ball around the field while making easy yards up the middle. The Blues had a hard fought 10 all draw with St Marys. This was a significant result considering the Blues were beaten by 10 tries by the same team at the end of the previuos season. Great tries by Olivia H and Emma P helped the team capture the lead just after halftime. St Marys used the speed and skill of two of their experienced Touch players to bring the game to a draw. After 3 weeks of games the module will be broken into three sections catering for the differing skills of all the teams.

Athletics

All classes are working hard at the moment on the fundamentals of athletics in preparation for the South-West Taieri Schools Athletic championships. The main focus in class programmes is to develop the following Fundamental Principles of Athletics:

The Fundamental Principles covered in the Running Activities are:
• Light quick movements
• Upright carriage of the head and trunk
• Movement of the feet and limbs in a straight path
• Ability to maintain rhythm when running over obstacles/distance

The Fundamental Principles covered in the Jumping/Leaping Activities are:
• Jumping may be from a standing start or from an approach run
• Take-offs may be made from one foot or from two feet
• Jumper’s legs will bend or flex in preparing to jump
• Arms should swing backwards in preparing to jump, then swing vigorously up as the jump is made.

The Fundamental Principles covered in the Throwing Activities are:
• Transfer of weight from back foot to front foot
• Release high against a braced left side (or right)
• Throw high in order to go far
• Keep the feet on the ground

Outram School Touch Rugby

With the Touch season fast approaching the School is looking at entering 3 touch teams. Trials for the teams have already begun with all participants showing a good level of skill. The School will be playing in the Taieri Junior Touch module played on Monday afternoons at Peter Johnstone park. Training will be at school during lunchtimes.

Outram Primary School Basketball Teams

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Annual Basketball Otago Tournament-Outram Champions Again!!

On sunday we had a tournament against teams from all around Otago. The first game against Mt Aspiring 'A' we lost by 2 points and we won all the other games against Abbortsford, Mt Aspiring 'B' and Portobello. This meant we were in the final against the real enemy Mt Aspiring 'A'. This was a real hard game but the whole Outram Rockets team showed the opposition who's boss and played there hearts out. Because of this huge effort Outram took out the grand final 27-25. This was a great achievement because the Mt Aspiring team trains three times a week and were a lot taller than us. It was a great, great feeling to bring home the trophy to put in the cabinet along side all the other trophy's Outram school has won.
By Cameron W

Otago Cross Country Championships

The school was represented at the Otago champs by a team of nine students. The team had been training prior to the event for 6 weeks. Focusing on aerobic endurance and leg stamina. For training we did things like running up and down a set of stairs at the Outram Glen. The cross country was very big with about 100 in each race! The real cross contry track was about 2km for years 5/6 and the year 7/ 8's race was around 2.4 km . At the end of the event we had some great results like, Christie W 3rd in her year 5/6 race, Emily B 12th in the year 7 race and Myles V got 7th in the year7/8 race. After a big day Christie W came back to school to be greeted by words like "Well done", and "Great effort!". Last year Christie came 27!- Everyone says the training regime helped.
Cameron W also had a great race(25th year 8 boys) for missing 2 training sessions! in the end we all had a great day at the Cross Country and would like to thank the parent s that made the trip in to support the team.
By Christie W