Riverside Public School

The Riverside Record

Sport· Year 5

Year 5 takes the regional regatta

Four crews, one freezing five o’clock start, and the first Riverside win at Lake Macquarie since 2019.

Eight rowers pulling together on flat water at dawn — First light on Lake Macquarie, twenty minutes before the heats.

Four crews left the carpark at five o’clock, in fog thick enough that the coach bus missed the turn-off twice. By eight, the sun was out. By two, Riverside had its first regatta win at Lake Macquarie since 2019.

The A crew took their heat by a length and a half, then held off a fast St Bede’s four in the final by less than a seat.

“On the drive home the crews barely spoke. Too tired to. That’s how you know it was a good one.”

Coach Rivera

The shells are back in the shed, the blisters are healing, and training resumes Tuesday. Zone championships are six weeks away.

Arts· Year 3

The kiln is finally back

After a term in pieces, the ceramics room is open again. Stage 3 fired their first bowls last week. Most survived.

Hands shaping wet clay on a turning pottery wheel

The replacement element arrived in week two, the firebricks in week five, and Mr Okafor’s patience ran out somewhere in between. The first firing held forty-one bowls; thirty-eight made it.

The three that didn’t have been arranged on the windowsill as “a sculpture about resilience.” Open studio runs Thursday lunchtimes for anyone who wants to throw a pot before the waitlist finds out.

Kindy

Kindy’s first excursion: the botanic gardens

Twenty-two tiny scientists, one very patient bus driver, and not a single lost hat. A perfect first outing.

Priya found the first tadpole and refused to leave the duck pond. Marcus named all twenty-two ducks, then renamed them. The wollemi pine got a round of applause.

Enormous thanks to parent helpers Ms Okafor and Mr Lee — all hats came home, and so did all children, in roughly the same condition they left.

Sport

Cross country trained in the rain

Forty kids, four teachers, one very muddy oval. The biggest session of the season, in conditions most adults wouldn’t walk the bin out in.

Tuesday’s forecast said stay home. Forty kids disagreed. The oval is still recovering, and so are the uniforms.

“They asked to do the hill twice. In the rain. We checked for fevers.”

Ms Harper · coach

The carnival is on the 21st. Based on Tuesday’s effort, the zone teams will pick themselves — and the uniforms may never be white again.

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