Year 5 & 6 Athletics Tournament
On the 16th of January, 12 students of year 5 & 6 went to participate in the Bracknell athletics tournament. They each competed in 3 different event (running, jumping and throwing). The competition took place at the Bracknell leisure centre, we were accompanied by 15 other schools.
The first races were hurdle races which we did phenomenal on! Next we did our first round of jumping which had triple jump (hop, skip and jump) and speed bounce. We then had our regular relay races. We then did more of our jumping which were long jump and high jump. Later we did our throwing javelin and chest push. Our individual races were next but we did that happily.
Our next race was the relay 2x which meant we went to the wall and back twice, it was hard but we all persevered and managed to do it to the best of our ability. Squeezing every last drop from our Lemon. Our last race was the short-sprint, 1 lap, relay. We were all very keen and proud to participate in this event. We managed to come 4th out of 15 school and qualified for the finals.
So on the 30th of January two weeks later, we went to compete in the finals! We knew that it would be harder than the first round as the other schools were the ones that placed in the top three. We had the same events as our first round which we performed as best we could. Often going further than our qualifying best. Once we finished our tournament it came down to the announcement, sadly we placed last but we tried out hardest and got the chance to participate in the event and we congratulate the schools that came in the top three!
Thank you to all the parents for their support and taking us to the event and to the staff at school for organising the event and taking us.
Written by Shanaya (Year 6)
