Hello from 5E!

Swimming sports  - 1 March 2017

On the first of March Year 5-8 went to swimming sports at Wharenui pool. We were very thankful for this help of doing this, as they have let us use Wharenui pool many, many times before for swimming sports. At swimming sports we had to wait and wait for our race, and that took forever! (unless you were the first race!) When the girls were lining up, we were shivering with fear and coldness. We were very nerve-cited. We were staring at the blank starting blocks and suddenly we were on them ready to dive! Every race we got on the top block but we didn’t go on the blocks for backstroke (of course!). We had to push off the wall really hard. Some of the girls were so strong that they made waves! We had a good time when we swam and we all tried very hard. There was a lot of false starts and splashing when the other people dived in to get started. All the girls tried to see who was winning so they could cheer their house on.

We loved all of the events we did, they were fun. The events were:

Freestyle

Backstroke

Breaststroke

Butterfly

A mix of all the strokes

We had to wait a little for to start in line to go for the race. There were a lot of people that had the same cap, and it was hard to identify all of the girls in the race. Good job, and good luck to the girls who are representing Selwyn House in the Zones. We hope to get good results!

By Mollie and Charlotte C