"Take your marks", "Set", "BANG"

Those were the sounds you would have heard last Friday at the Upper Waitaki Swimming Sports in Kurow. I was lucky enough to accompany 20 of our students to Kurow to compete against Duntroon, Waitaki Valley and Omarama schools. 

Our students competed amazingly, representing our school with pride and taking away some amazing results.

Download a pdf of the 2023 Upper Waitaki Results here.

To be selected for North Otago Swimming in Oamaru you must swim under a certain time. Congratulations to the following swimmers who have qualified:

• Orlando Narruhn
• William Newlands
• Isla McLeod
• Jaxon Shaw
• Bailey Bacchus
• Noah Sheridan
• Nina Brown
• Louis Feck
• Tui Hurst
• Sebastian Irving
• Harriet Kyd
• Dom Newlands
• Henry Scarlett
• Henry Waldie
• Emilie Ward
• Efa Watkins
• Mali Watkins

They will be heading away to Oamaru next Wednesday to compete. Goodluck Team Twizel!

Year 5 student Mia Ross accompanied the swimmers to Kurow and wrote about her day for the newsletter:

Mia’s Day at Kurow Swimming Sports

On the way down to Kurow in the van I sat up front, because sometimes I get travel sickness. It was a fun bus trip and I even had a little sleep on the way.

Harriet, Seb, Henry W, Henry S and Louis from Room 4 were in the swimming events. Harriet got second in freestyle and she swam 25 metres. Seb got first in freestyle and third in backstroke, first in breaststroke. Louis got fourth in breaststroke, and freestyle and got into the finals. Henry S got first in the freestyle heats and Henry W got third in breaststroke.

On the drive back to school the van I was in got ice cream and Chelse was kind enough to buy me the ice cream. It was way too hot for me to handle.

By Mia Ross, age 8