Cross Country Success

After weeks of training the big day had arrived!

School Cross Country Day!

Houses assembled on the court for a quick run down of how the event would proceed.  House leaders did a great job keeping their teams calm and orderly.  The weather was superb! 

We all walked up behind the school onto Alexander's farm.

 Runners, teachers and marshalls were all set as spectators arrived.  

Innes raced to come first in the Y3/4 B Grade race

 Here comes Sam

and Jack M in blue races for the finish line!

Room 6 girls cleaned up in the Y3/4 Girls A Grade race!

Makayla came 1st

Georgie came 2nd  

Abby came 3rd

 Greer came 4th

Amber came 5th

 Annie came 6th

Zaymia finishes with a smile

 as does Sophie

Room 6 boys didn't do too badly in the Y3/4 A Grade race!

Timmy came 2nd

(No photo of him at the event!

Ahh! Here he is training tho'!)

Stanley came 3rd

Jack B came 4th followed by Kai coming 5th!

Joel puts his all to finishing well

as does Bayly

School Cross Country photos were taken by a dedicated photographer who also had to deal with any first-aid issues, so many photo opportunities were missed.  These were all the photos that Room 6 students appeared in.  All of the Room 6 students who took part displayed courage and perseverance and should all be very proud of finishing the difficult course!!

As a result of the school event the first 6 Y3/4 girls and first 6 Y3/4 boys went on to compete in the Napier and Districts event at Park Island.  There were approximately 100 runners per race! Our girls did remarkably well - Makayla came 2nd, Georgie came 6th, Greer came 7th, Abby came 16th and Amber came 17th!  Amazing!  These incredible results saw Puketapu School's Y3/4 Girls winning the entire event!

The story is not quite over.  The first 20 runners in each age group then went on to compete at the Hawke's Bay Cross Country event.  The Year 3 and 4's ran separate races at this event. Our girls did amazingly well!  Amber came 2nd in the Y3 girls race!  Our Y4 girls did remarkably well too - Makayla came 2nd, Abby came 12th, Georgie came 14th and Greer came 18th!

Look at these two!  Makayla(Y4) and Amber(Y3) both came second place in their races in the HB Champs!  They each received a beautiful silver medal at the prize giving ceremony.  Unbelievable!
Bring on next year's Cross Country events!!