Top Team

It was a beautiful sunny day, perfect for top team games; so we held a top team event organised by Sport Tasman

We had a terrific day with loud music and 20 exciting challenges to complete. There was a mix of water and dry land activities and, since the day was scorching hot, I think that water activities were the most practical and popular events that most people were wanting to do.

The activities were extremely difficult on your own so, to make it easy and to succeed, you had to have exceptional team work.  The time spent at each challenge was around about 5-10 minutes.

My favourite part about the event was that you had to work as a team to get points and everybody was cheering you and laughing with you, which faded the music away.

At twelve thirty we had lunch and came back to our fun activities. Personally, my top two challenges were the water slide and the wheel barrow race.

At the end of our exquisite day we handed our score cards in, then Hayley and Josie gave out the prizes for first, second and third.

Written by Jed

The Mapua School Swimming Sports

"Step up, take your marks, BANG!"

It was the day of the Swimming Sports. Year five to eight students headed off to Riwaka School for the annual event on Friday 21 February.  The swimmers sat in their age groups under shelters, protecting them from the drizzles of misty rain.

There was tension in the air as the first gunshot fired, and then the supporters' voices escaped their mouths. They were cheering so hard and so loud that some of them went a little bit deaf! (Not really.)

As the day grew old the cheering died down and almost everyone had raced.
It was then teachers turn.

One teacher from each house:
Yellow: Miss McKenzie; Green: Mr. Clearwater; Blue: Mr. Taylor; Red: Sharon.
They had to fit into inflatable black rings, and had to be pushed by four selected students to the other end of the pool. Everyone was so excited and cheering so hard showing that it was one of the best bits of the day! The tyre pushers and teachers were frantically kicking and swimming through the water to get to the end first. Yellow won! (YES!)

Everyone dived into the pool at free time.  The pool was crowded with laughing, excited and energetic students.

No one want ed to get out of the pool to go back to school.

Everyone ended the day thinking that they had done their best and swam as hard as they could. I certainly felt good about my races!

Congratulations to all those who swam.

What a day!

By Max