On Friday the 23rd of
February it was the Milton Schools Athletics day. St Marys and Tokoiti came to
participate with us. All of the events started at 9.30am and went to around
2.00pm. Lots of parents and caregivers came to cheer their children along as
well as their school. These were all of the events: high jump, long jump, mini
hurdles, 100 metre sprints, 200 metres, 800 metres, shot put and discus. Each
child put in a one hundred and one percent effort. At the end of the day
children went home with a red face and a smile with tomato sauce over it from
the delicious sausage sizzle at lunchtime provided by Home and School helpers.
The 800 metre run was the longest and made us puff and slow down a little bit
more at the end of the race. Everyone tried their hardest and our best wishes
go to the children who qualified for the South Otago sports in Balclutha. It
was a great day but everyone’s bones would have been very stiff and sore the
next day!!
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Swimming
We were all
delighted to be able to get straight into swimming instruction right from the
first day of the school year. We were also fortunate that the weather stayed
fine for us so we only missed one swimming day. In this block of
swimming, we focus on practising the basic swimming strokes eg freestyle and
backstroke. We use equipment such as floatboards to work on our leg action and
once we have mastered that we go on to work on arm action and breathing. Many
children have made tremendous progress since last year. Later in the term we will have
another block of swimming lessons and we will be off to the pool again at the end of the year when the focus will be on water safety.
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