Run-a-thon

The week after our cross country, our school held it's yearly Run-a-thon. It was a dress up event and it was wonderful to see all the different costumes the other children and the teachers were wearing. Before the event, we were asked to set a goal, telling the teacher how many laps we thought we could run in five minutes.  Then when the big day arrived we all gathered on the bottom court and lined up in our class groups. We were so surprised to see so many parents supporting us.  Rm 1 children ran first and we had to run around the track as many times as we could in five minutes.  Although five minutes is not a long time, it certainly seemed like it, when we were running.  Rms 3 and 4 followed, then we went back to class and our teachers called out the number of laps we actually did. Lots of us scored the same laps as we expected we would and some of us ran even more.  When Whataitai Hub and Matairangi Hub had run their laps around the outside of the school, all the children gathered in the hall and they announced the winners of the dress up competition and also spot prizes  Tom Oscroft from Rm 4  and Clara Bannister from Rm 1 were the winners of the dress up competition but we all agreed everyone looked amazing and we had so much fun.

                                                                   

The money raised from this event will be used for the development of the playground and equipment for lunchtime activities and extra curricular groups.