All schools in Forest Lodge, Glebe, Pyrmont and Ultimo are invited to come and participate in events to score points for your suburb. Come and barrack for your suburb. The reputation of your home ground is at stake!

Game competitions, history of the park displays and talks, lunch stalls, jazz music (IGS jazz band), "any other hound dog" races all day for the upwardly mobile ordinary family pooch, big inter-suburb tug o' war for everyone. Climax of the day will be a Glebe/Forest Lodge vs Ultimo/Pyrmont soccer game.

This page outlines what is proposed, and links to a brief history of the park.

School Competition Kit

Glebe and Forest Lodge Vs Ultimo and Pyrmont. Which suburb is your school going to represent and support?

The following kit explains:

1. The purpose and objectives of the day.
2. How your school can get involved
3. All about the poster competition
4. All about the essay competition for the day
5. Entering a sporting team
6. Details of the Day
7. Information you can use in planning a history of Wentworth Park for a local history study

It should be a great community day but one with a difference. This day is about community involvement, having fun together and celebrating our big, largely forgotten but wonderful, park. Get your school involved!

Who are we?

The Blackwattle Cove Coalition is made up of representatives of community groups from Pyrmont, Glebe and Ultimo plus other representatives of the community who are interested in the area around Blackwattle Bay and particularly the park.

Contact: Anne Fraser BCC convenor, and convenor of the community celebration:

Annefraser01@optusnet.com.au
Phone: 9660 7560
Mobile: 0409893047

A Community Games Day? What is that?
A fun day of community games plus history of the park talks and displays to celebrate the history and existence of our wonderful but, until recently, much neglected Wentworth Park. The focus is on community involvement in games using the park space and facilities which will include the Sports Complex. The day will also include dogs in races for the upwardly mobile dog who has always fancied itself as runner - the "Any Other Hound Dog" races will run in the greyhound track competing for the coveted Wenty Park Mongrel Cup.

The aims of the day

1. To raise the profile of Wentworth Park:

• in the minds of the local residence for whom it is much needed open space
• in the minds of the council
• in the minds of the State Government

2. To involve the community (local residents, schools, universities and surrounding businesses) in a participatory games day and by so doing to encourage a sense of community interaction, a sense of identity and good natured inter-suburban sporting rivalry that has characterised the park for much of its history. The games are designed to involve as many people as possible of all ages and sporting bents.

3. To give all participants a greater understanding of the park - its amazing space, its history (displays and talks), its potential, its iconic value.

4. To demonstrate to the Sydney City Council and the State Government that we value this park and want it given greater priority in terms of planning and maintenance and access through the cooperative use of the park by the community and the greyhound racing clubs.

How Your School Can Get Involved

1. Representing your suburb

Your students can represent the suburb in which your school is located: Pyrmont, Ultimo or Glebe by wearing a T shirt and anything else you have in the colours of your suburb

Glebe & Forest Lodge - RED
Ultimo & Pyrmont - BLUE

2. Entering the Poster Competition to advertise the day to the community

Local schools are invited to participate in a wide variety of sports.

The winners will be announced and prizes awarded at the opening of the Games. The posters will be distributed throughout the three suburbs in shops, libraries, council buildings.

3. Using the event to study the Park - its site, history and its present. This can be continued into entering the "My Vision for our Wentworth Park of 2020" essay competition. Winners to be announced at the opening of the Games Day.

4. By entering teams in the volley ball and little soccer competitions of the day. Anne Fraser will coordinate this section with your school's sports coordinator.

Poster competition

AIM: To advertise the event and get as many people to come along and represent their suburb on the day. Posters must be eye catching, inviting and informative.

POSTER DETAILS
Size: A1 cardboard size

Information to be included (may be summarised to suit poster design):

* When it will be held (18 May, 2008 10am to 4pm)
* Where: southern end of Wentworth Park and inside the Sporting Complex of Wentworth Park
* What: A community day of inter suburban game competitions - running, egg and spoon, mini soccer, any "other hound dog" races - bring your pooch and let it pretend it is a greyhound for the day, etc etc. The day will conclude in a big intersuburban soccer match.
* Come and join in and help your suburb Glebe, Ultimo or Pyrmont win the coveted Wentworth Park Community Games Trophy 2008

ENTRY DETAILS
You may enter as many posters as you wish. There will be a prize for each age category.

ENTRY DATE
1. Posters must be handed into your school office by Tuesday 1 April.

2. Entries must include the student's name, age, class, school, a contact number on the back of the poster.

3. Posters will then be judged and distributed about the area during the next week. The winners will be announced during the opening of the games and prizes awarded.

Essay/picture competition

After studying a history of the park, which might also include taking a big walk around it and finding the evidence of past uses of the park, try to visualise what you would like Wentworth Park to be in 2020. Here is a chance to help shape the future of our park.

Prizes will be announced early in the new school term.

PICTURES

An A1 drawing of how you would like Wentworth Park to look in the year 2020. Prizes will be announced early in the new school term

ENTRY DATE

* Entries must be handed into your school by Friday, 2 May.
* All entries must include the student's name, age, class, school, a contact number on the back of the poster.
* Entries will then be judged and the winners announced and prizes awarded at the opening of the games day.