West Cluster Swimming Results (Year 5 and 6)

Last week we had a number of Year 5 and 6 students compete at the West Cluster Swimming Sports at Greerton Pool. Congratulations to the following students who managed to get placings on the day.

• Troy Barnett 
• 3rd in the Year 6 boys 100 metre Freestyle
• 3rd in the Year 6 boys 75 metre medley
• Ben Charman-Moore
• 3rd in the Year 5 boys 25 metre Freestyle
• James Hollard
• 1st in the Year 6 boys 25 metre Freestyle
• 2nd in the Year 6 boys 50 metre Freestyle
• Zane Davey 
• 2nd in the Year 5 boys 25 metre Backstroke
• 1st Year 5 boys 50 metre freestyle
• Toby Elsom 
• 2nd in the Year 6 boys 25 metre Backstroke
• 3rd in the Year 6 boys 50 metre Freestyle

The Year 5 and 6 Tauriko team also did really well at the relay events on the day:

• 2nd in the Girls Relay
• 1st in the Boys Relay
• 2nd in the Grand Relay

Congratulations to James Hollard and Zane Davey who have qualified and will be swimming at the Western Bay of Plenty Swimming Champs next week. Good luck!

Competitive Swimming Results

Whole School Swimming Sports

Smash! went the clappers. I dived into the pool swimming as hard as I could, no stopping.  It was Monday the 2nd of March and Tauriko School were in action at the Greerton Swimming Pool for the 2015 School Swimming Sports. Yelling, screaming people cheered as the four school houses went head-to-head. Splash, splash the water spun around my head.  Smack!  I crashed into the wall and the woman stopped the timer.  I hopped out of the pool and went back to my seat shivering with elation.
Next to swim was my friend Casey.  Casey looked terrified as she climbed up the starting blocks. The whistle blew, the clapper went and she dived into the water. I  was cheering for her as she sped down the lane, bobbing up and down in a fluid breaststroke motion until she reached the end.  Touching with two hands, she finished her race.  I felt really delighted that Casey had an awesome race. Next race up was backstroke and Jess, Sally and I were in this race. I was so nervous I had butterflies in my stomach. BANG!! the clapper whet. Swimming as fast as I could. Nearly there, nearly there, suddenly I banged my wrist into the wall. With excitement and joy we all hopped out of the pool. I was wondering what place I came.
     

House Results for Swimming Sports

Congratulations to Yellow House for winning the House competition for swimming sports.

Competitive Swimming Sports Results

Please find attached the competitive swimming sports results and relay results. Many of our year 5 and 6 swimmers will be competing at the West Cluster Swimming Sports in a few weeks.

Whole School Swimming Sports

On Thursday the 6th of March it was swimming sports day. I was really excited when we arrived at school, so I got my bag out of the car and nervously walked into class.

All of the competitive swimmers went to go and find their house colour wrist bands, so I put my bag away and went to go and find mine.  I’m in Blue House, the best house, so I got a blue wrist band. Then I went to sit outside with all of the other competitive swimmers. When we got on the bus we all found a seat, then the bus took off to Greerton Pools. When we arrived my heart was pounding really fast, my tummy had gigantic butterflies and my legs started to shake and my fingers started to sweat. While we were walking into Greerton Pools I felt damp and wet and still really nervous about my races. Then Mrs Palfrey said on the loud speaker ‘could everyone please take their seats’, so everyone sat down on the light blue grandstand. I sat up the top with my friends Summer, Olivia and Tessa. Soon after she said ‘all the people in 25 metre freestyle please go and stand by the diving boards’, ‘on your marks, get set, GO!’ shouted Mrs Van Dijk who was in charge of the clappers. I was racing and swimming as fast as possibly could go! Splash, I touched the wall with one hand then had a look around, and the person who was timing me said that I came second place. We all hopped out of the pool and climbed up the slippery grand stand to watch the other races.

It was the parent, teacher and student relay race, so all the school turned up to see this. Mrs Te Whaiti was wearing orange togs, orange swim cap and an orange towel. It was so funny. It was now time to return to school.

It was a really fun day.          

By Paige

Stay tuned for more swimming sports instalments.......

West Cluster Swimming Sports

Last week we had 23 students represent Tauriko School at the West Cluster swimming sports. There was some extremely tough competition but our swimmers did us proud. We have six students who have been selected to represent the West Cluster at the WBOP swimming sports next week. We wish them the best of luck. Check out our fabulous results below;

Relay Teams
2nd for the Girls relay team (Libby Coster, Paige Aulding, Hannah Rose and Holly Bodgers)
2nd for our Grand relay team (Lisa Evans, Mitchell Howe, Talia Moore and Jacob van Oosterhout)

Year 6
Hannah Rose
3rd 100m freestyle
2nd 25m freestyle
2nd 50m freestyle

Emma Kennedy 
3rd 25m backstroke
1st 50m freestyle

Jessica James 
3rd 25m butterfly

Talia Moore 
3rd 25m freestyle

Tess Esterman 
2nd 25m breaststroke
2nd 50m breaststroke

Year 5
Lisa Evans 
1st 25m butterfly
2nd 25m backstroke
3rd 25m breaststroke
1st 50m freestyle

Libby Coster 
2nd 25m breaststroke
2nd 50m freestyle

Alana Yorke 
3rd 50m breaststroke

West Cluster Swimming Sports

West Cluster Swimming Sports

On Wednesday the 27th of March, Rooms 11, 12 and 13 students who qualified at the School Swimming Sports went to the West Cluster Swimming Champs at Greerton Pools.

We raced against students from Pyes Pa, Oropi, Merivale, Greenpark and Greerton Village schools.

We supported our peers while they were in the water, shouting our chant "Go Tauriko lets go". 

Tauriko School came second in the grand relay. 

We found it tough and fun when Tauranga Intermediate raced us in the relay, they started half a length behind us to make it fairer but they still got first.

By the end of the day everyone was exhausted, but we had all tried our hardest. We are still waiting to be told the results to see if any students from Tauriko School are going into the next level of the Swimming Sports for the

We thank all the parents that took their time to help us with transport, time keeping and support. 

By Tess

Whole School Swimming Sports

What an awesome day we had on Thursday 7th March at the Greerton Pool. It was great to see so many of the school community there to support their tamariki and get involved. Thank you so much to all the parents who helped in some way on the day. Without your help the day wouldn't have been such a great success. It was so neat to see so many of the students giving things ago and having lots of fun. Congratulations to all our swimmers on the day you did yourselves proud. Please see the competitive swimming results below.