This week we celebrated the fantastic running done by all Primary children in the Baton Relay Around Australia. Students were delighted to receive a small reward for their efforts and winning classes were celebrated too.

Students ran for 10 minutes, four days each week for six weeks and accumulated laps for their class and personal tallies. These were converted into kilometres and their progress was tracked on a huge map of Australia. The race was on to get around Australia first.

This year’s race was particularly close between the Year 3 classes and Year 6 classes. The rain did hamper the running for a couple of weeks but classes managed to squeeze as many runs in as possible.

After the six weeks, 3W were declared the winning class! Every member of this class just kept on running and finished just a few laps in front of second placegetters, 3M.

The Junior Competition was won by Prep White who had a class full of keen runners and many others who just kept chugging along. The preps raced around their playground area and enjoyed getting out and challenging themselves to run more laps than the week before.

These classes won a day out at some fun venues and maybe a trip to the beach with Mrs Stott or Mr Bennett in Term 4 when the weather is warmer.

The girl and boy in each class who ran the most laps were also presented a certificate and prize. These students just powered around the oval every day and got themselves really fit for the GCC Cross Country. Many of them also went on to represent GCC at the District Cross Country Competition.

Gold, Silver and Bronze awards were also presented to the highest laps run by Girls and Boys in the Junior and Upper Primary Schools. Lily Breen and Cooper Stevens ran the highest number of laps with Lily running 135 laps and Cooper running 128. That equates to Lily running 45 kilometres over the five weeks of running which was a great effort. Ella McKenzie and Bailey James were the Champion Prep – Year 2 runners with 80 and 87 laps respectively.

Everyone put in a fantastic effort for their classes and got fitter along the way also. Of course the fresh air and exercise refreshed the brains and the students were much more effective with their school work after running!! Well done everyone.

Prep to Year 2 lapathon winners:

Class	Boys	Laps	Girls	Laps
PG	Quinn Dunford Jack Usher	116   70	Ella McKenzie	133   80
PM	Rocky Demerutis	122   74	Anika Taylor	119   72
PW	Joel Morris	144   86	Elannah Spiteri	109   66
Red – converted to 300m lap – Prep lap 170m
1G	Bailey James	87	Estelle Collins	78
1M	Kai Campbell	81	Indi Marshall	54
1W	Connor Bound	56	Kannika Clamp	47
2G	Oscar Ramsay	82	Emma Slater Eadie Townsend	59
2M	Thomas Jones	73	Georgie Cobb	66
2W	Ayden Shaw Jack Ives	72	Chloe Jarvis	60

Winning Junior Class – Prep W    7125 km

Prep – 2 Overall Individual Winners

Most Individual Laps

Girls	Class	Laps	Boys	Class	Laps
Ella McKenzie	PG	80	Bailey James	1G	87
Estelle Collins	1G	78	Joel Morris	PW	86
Anika Taylor	PM	72	Oscar Ramsay	2G	82

Year 3 to 6 lapathon winners:

3G	Cooper Stevens	128	Bella Campbell	103
3M	Micah Constant	123	Lily Short	119
3W	Lachlan Broderick	105	Sophie Sharma	87
4G	Cooper Rana	81	Jasmine Hazelden	72
4M	Hayden Cullen	110	Bridget Mackie	80
4W	Ben Ramke	87	Breeanna Aldridge	67
5G	Jordan Dalleau	93	Chloe Turnbull	75
5M	Uyapo Kombanie	52	Hayley Sutherland-Small	40
5W	Noah Cobb	101	Mikayla Blinston	82
6G	Jake O’Grady Schroter	119	Brooke Gledhill	112
6M	Matthew Fielding	122	Lily Breen	135
6W	Joshua Balfour Jared Moss	79	Keira Lerch	75

Winning Year 3 – 6 Class – 3G        10285 km       2475 Laps

Year 3 – 6 Overall Individual Winners

Most Individual Laps

Girls	Class	Laps	Boys	Class	Laps
Lily Breen	6M	135	Cooper Stevens	3G	128
Lily Short	3M	119	Micah Constant	3M	123
Brooke Gledhill	6G	112	Matthew Fielding	6M	122

GCC Families can see all the photos on Pixevety.