Swimming Sports

Gwen tells a little about our Swimming Sports day on Tuesday. It was great to see everyone stepping up to their own personal challenges.

On the 6^th March the teachers were all ready to have a busy day of swimming sports. We were all sorted at the pool in house colours, blue, red, green and gold. Mr Peart (the boss of the day!) called out everyone that was going to swim first. They blasted off and Miss Porter and Steel gave out cards to those who came first, second, third and fourth.

We did races with freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly as well as flutter board races and sculling races. It took over three hours to get through all the races.

When the day was nearly over we had the relay races with each house entering a team. Kowhai won the relay race.

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Technology Challenge

On Monday we took part in a technology challenge to make a paper plane that could turn as it flew. We got into groups of four and were given four pieces of A4 paper, two drinking straws, 1m of sticky tape and a blob of blu-tak. Each team had 15 minutes to come up with a design that included at least one of the straws and to build it. We then took it in turns to try our planes out. It was lots of fun and we are going to be writing about the experience so keep an eye out for some writing in the near future. For the moment here are some of the pictures from the afternoon.

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