SPORT
The Physical education programme developed at Maranatha Christian College addresses all aspects of the Curriculum Council’s Health & Physical Education key learning area.
As part of its mission to provide excellence in education for life and eternity, the College takes this aspect of the curriculum seriously because it seeks to provide an educational program that ministers to the whole child; academically, socially, spiritually and physically. To oversee this a Physical Education Coordinator has been appointed who heads a team of 4 teachers responsible for the development and implementation of a holistic and integrated program across all years of the College.
House and inter-school sporting carnivals, in athletics, swimming and popular sporting codes provide opportunities for students, at a range of levels, to experience healthy competition.
In the junior school (years K-5) the physical education program includes gymnastics, skill lessons and organised sport, all designed to increase fine and gross motor development, stamina, skill levels and to develop the child’s interest in the various sporting codes played in the wider community.
In the Middle school (years 6 – 9), in addition to physical education and sport lessons, there are opportunities for students to participate in marine based physical education activities and outdoor education.
Senior School (years 10 –12) students have weekly time-tabled sport lessons and are able to participate in a range of activities including scuba diving (to a nationally accredited level) and a range of outdoor education experiences such as orienteering, camping and backpacking.
SURF LIFE SAVING CADETS
Available and open to all Year 8 - 12 students is the Surf Life Saving Cadets programme. Surf Life Saving Cadets is a voluntary, extra curricular course which runs after school on Wednesday afternoons. The aim of the programme is to equip our students with first aid and rescue skills in an open water beach environment. The programme is run with the help of a team of volunteers from the Secret Harbour Surf Life Saving Club who take the students through the education modules and teach them how to use the rescue equipment down at the surf club.

