Swimming sports for Matahui

Usually, at this time of the year students at Matahui School attend various sporting competitions with other schools from the Western Bay and Tauranga area. Each year students look forward to attending these events and competing with other students from other schools. Unfortunately, with Covid, many of the inter-school events are not happening again this year. One of the events cancelled was the Small School Swimming Competition, an event that Matahui School students look forward to each year.

Like many other schools, Matahui School doesn’t have its own pool, so twice a week during the summer terms, our students travel to Dave Hume Pool in Katikati for lessons - to learn water safety skills and practise their swimming skills.

Therefore, it was only natural when it was announced that this year’s Small Schools Swimming Competition was cancelled, Matahui School students and teachers alike were disappointed that the usual competitions were not going ahead this year.

So instead, a decision was made that Matahui School would organise our own event at Dave Hume Pool on Friday 25th February. This event saw all our students, from Year 1 to 8 involved with competitive and not-so-competitive events. We had some amazing bubbles and kicking with flutter boards from our younger students. While our older students swam some very competitive times in their swimming events. It was amazing to see everyone getting involved and cheering encouragement to their schoolmates and showing the Matahui way.

Thank you, Mrs Burtenshaw, Matahui School Year 7 & 8 teacher for your expert organisation of the day. It was great to see our amazing teachers in their element swimming alongside our students in the pool.