Physical Education
The Physical Education Program at Overport PS is a
skills acquisition and games sense based program. Each grade has a forty minute lesson per week which is supplemented with the Perceptual Motor
Program for the Prep grades, a Platoon session for grades 1 & 2, an
hour sport for grades 3 & 4 and a two hour sport session for grades
5 & 6.
Other components of the physical education program include:
- A swimming program for all grades from Prep to 4
- A water safety program for grades 5 and 6
- Activity based camps for grades 3, 4, 5 and 6
- Whole school cross country/fun run
- A whole school Football Activities Day
- House athletics for grades 3 - 6 students
- Grade 5 and 6 interschool winter and summer sports
- Grade 5 and 6 leisure sports program
- Hooptime basketball competition for grades 3 - 6 students
- Grade 3 and 4 Rounders competition
- Junior sports morning
- Melbourne Storm Rugby Clinics
