Firstly, what do you think Athletics day is? If you don’t know what it is, when you have up to 4 house colours who compete against each other for house points, then the house colour who ends up with the most house points wins.

So, what house colours are there? There is…

Rimu 🟥

3

Kowhai 🟨

Tawa 🟦

Kauri 🟩

 

After explaining what the house colours are, what actually happened when we were there? First after the year 7s did their 1500 race (4 laps around the track) and other older years doing races had finished, it was time for the year 6s 100m race girls. Then BOOM! They started running with kauri in front and came 1st place! 

Later on it was my turn for one of the activities we had to do, it was long jump! We first had a practice round and there was a white line that had blue in the middle of it. If your foot went over the end of the blue line it’s a no jump, we had a practice round first and then after we would do 2 rounds or jumping and when you land without jumping over the end of the blue line the would measure from where you jumped to where your first foot landed, then they would measure it and the house colour with the longest distance wins. Moments later after a few more races there was the relay race… the house captains would choose the top fastest people in their house colour to do the relay. Overall rimu had won the relay race.

 

Woo hoo! Everyone was cheering for their house colour and some were also cheering for other house colours too! Then after packing up all the activities we did we went into our home whanau and went on the bus back to school, and the best thing was everyone had sportsmanship. If you participate in Athletics for your school what place do you think you would get in?