In our assembly last week Miss Geard our PE teacher made a special announcement to students. We are excited to announce to the Burnie Primary School Community that in term 4 we are meeting an Australian Olympian! Miss Geard entered a competition and has won us a visit from someone who has recently returned from the Olympic Games in Paris.  

This person is Olympic Champion MOLLIE O’CALLAGHAN! 

This opportunity has been sponsored by Macquarie Sport, who are an organisation celebrating 25 years of providing opportunities to children in Australia to participate in sport, to be inspired and motivated by interacting with sporting role models, and providing grants for sporting organisations and schools to run sporting programs and help children pursue sporting careers. When she visits, she is also presenting some new sporting equipment to our school that is part of the prize.  

Mollie competed in her first Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021 and won 3 medals 2 bronze and a gold. This year in Paris she won 1 Bronze, 1 Silver and 3 Gold Medals.

Paris Medal Tally for Molly:

4x100m women's freestyle relay

4x 200m women's freestyle relay

200m women's Freestyle Individual

4x 100m mixed medley relay

4x 100m women's medley relay

We are beyond excited and honoured to welcome Mollie into our school, we cannot wait to share more information about the visit with families in term 4.