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Performance Experiences
Prep to Year 3
Our Junior Primary students enjoy multiple performance opportunities. A highlight for many is the much anticipated bi-annual Celebration Night, where we showcase our students’ wide array of talents through song, dance, drama and visual art. Bright lights, colourful costumes, multimedia presentations and hundreds of enthusiastic performers make a joyful celebration not to be missed! Student artwork is proudly displayed and enjoyed by many.
Other performance opportunities for our Junior Primary students include Multicultural Day, Open Night, the Bush Dance and Christmas concerts.
Year 4 to Year 6
For our Senior Primary students, the year culminates in a special performance evening, where all students are involved in a live performance. The Years 4-6 Presentation Evening not only honours the graduating Year 6 students but also celebrates outstanding student achievement in academic, sporting and cultural endeavours.
Primary Sport
Primary sport goals include fostering an appreciation for each student’s God-given gifts, and encouraging skills of cooperation, teamwork and healthy competition. Staff nurture a love of sport, inspire excellence, and help each child to achieve their best.
Our swimming carnivals, cross country, and track and field events are well supported with cheering and encouragement from parents and grandparents!
There is a wide range of sporting opportunities both during and after school hours. Inter School Sport is offered through the Premier Sports Ipswich (PSI) competition run across Term 1-3 and Christian Schools Team Games competitions and Gala Sport days in Term 2. Students also have opportunities to trial for representative school sporting pathways in a wide range of individual and team sports, from district to national level.
Sporting Opportunities
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Term 1
- Yr 3-6 Cross Country Carnival
- P-6 Cross Country Training
- Christian Schools Swimming
- Soccer Development Program Yr 1-6
- Premier Sports Ipswich – Touch Football & Basketball
Term 2
- Yr 3-6 Track and Field Carnival
- Christian School Cross Country
- Christian Schools Team Games – Soccer & Basketball
- Premier Sports Ipswich – Futsal
- Kindy-Yr 2 Mini Athletics Carnival
- Netball Development Program Yr 3-6
- Soccer Development Program - Prep
- Gala Sport – Soccer, 5 Aside, Netball
Term 3
- Christian Schools Track and Field
- Premier Sports Ipswich – Soccer and Netball
- Prep–Yr 2 Mini Cross Country Carnival
- Royal Life Saving Program - Yr 4 & 5
Term 4
- Christian School Team Games – Touch Football & Netball
- Yr 3-5 Swimming Carnival
- Netball Development Program - Yr 1-2
- AFL Development Program
- Royal Lifesaving Program - Yr 1, 2, 3, 6
Year 5 Young Leaders Program
Westside’s Young Leaders Program is an amazing personal growth experience. In preparing our Year 5s for Year 6, the focus is on qualities essential to leadership development, such as Christ-likeness, character, confidence and citizenship.
The four Young Leaders Program building blocks are:
- Presentation Skills – speak out
- Responsibility – be accountable
- Organisation – plan ahead
- Teamwork – work together
Year 6 Leadership Opportunities
All Year 6 students have many opportunities to mentor, lead, serve and care for others. Formal leadership roles include Primary School Captains and Vice-Captains, Student Representatives and Sport House Captains. Student Representatives are responsible for planning and managing fundraising events for various humanitarian causes and in developing initiatives that build up our primary school community.