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School Sports Day

Kia Ora Room 19,

Running, jumping, throwing and catching were just a few activities that the students of Papatoetoe South School were doing yesterday as part of our School Sports Day. Pulses were racing and everyone had a wonderful day in the sun!



Your task is to write a recount of the day. Here are some ideas to get you going:

- You could create a plan in your writing book to help you structure your thoughts.
- Think of each event you went to in chronological order.
- How were you feeling? What did you think? What could you see, hear, feel around you?
- What did you enjoy or dislike and why?
- Use metaphors and similes to make your writing more interesting.
- Try to really capture the audience's attention.

Here are some sentence starters and conjunctions you might consider using:

They were...
It was like...
I ran as fast as...
I felt like...
I could see...
Suddenly, but, however, while, as well as, after, before...

Check and edit your work before you post (the usual blog rules apply). High quality recounts will receive personal points!





34 comments:

  1. Hi my name is Angela and I am going to explain how athletics went on Monday.

    One sunny morning Papatoetoe South school had a school athletics. That day we had a lot of activity like, sprints, Kneel and sling, over the flag pole, beat the ball, hurdles, scissors jump and a lot of other activities.

    Firstly what happen was the girls and boy got split up into groups. The boys got spilt up into there age groups and went to different activities. The girls were doing sprints and got to race there ages in the different house colors.

    The house colors were BLUE GREEN RED and YELLOW. Well BLUE won anyway because they had a lot of fast people and was always chearing for our team thats how we earned the points.

    Thanks for reading my comment.

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  2. Kia ora, my name is Ola and Im going to talk about athletics day.

    One sunny morning Papatoetoe South School had an athletics day. We had sprints and activities with other teachers.

    All the girls were on the races first well the boys were on the activities with the other teachers. Alot of fast girls were in the mighty group BLUE! Me and all my other friends came #1,#2 or #3.

    Next was the boys turns on sprints well the girls were on the activities. It was really fun because the activities were kneel and sling, over the flag, beat the ball,hurdles, scissors and a lot of other fun games. We watched the boys and the fastest boys that ran as fast as flash were Mac, Sione and Cody. They were so fast.

    Finally, what everyone was waiting for were the finals for sprints. Everyone were yelling,screaming and shouting. Finally, the sprints began and it was so fun and tiering. YES! “I said in an exciting voice” Its all over!! :)

    The next day they announced the winners and the winning team was the mighty BLUE TEAM!! !!YAY!! We won.

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  3. Bula my name is Will and I am going to tell you about the atheletics day.

    On one blazing hot morning at Papatoetoe School we had an atheletics day.
    I was so excited to do all of the many events out their.First up was the girls I saw so many fast girls out their they were spriting so fast like they were cheetahs running up and down.

    The girls were sprinting while the boys were doing all of the fun activities.After that it was the boys turn to go up and do the sprints while the girls did all of the fun activities.I was as scared as if their was an eclipse.When I got up their I couldn,t back down because everybody was cheering for me espically my mum.That is the way I got all of the courage in me.

    Finally at the end it was a tuff race but I was proud of coming 4th.
    To bad at the end red team did not win but at least we came 3rd.

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  5. Aloha my name is Tyson and I am going to give you my personal voice about athletics.

    One cold freezing day Papatoetoe South School had athletics.Firstly we were split up into boys age groups to do the amazing cool activities. Then the girls had to do sprints they were fast like superman.

    While the day went on the very quick girls got through the sprints while we were doing the activities slowly. Ring Ring! went the bell and I knew the boys did the sprints after morning tea.

    I was so freaked out when it was my turn to race my heart was racing like a Formula 1. I didn't know if I was going to win or lose but I ended up coming 1st two times then in the finalls I lost but I still had fun.

    Finally at the end the amazing awesome magnificent blue team won I was so happy and so was blue team.

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  6. Sports Day

    Hello my name is ‘Simranjot.
    Today I am going to tell you about our day at Sports day.

    1 RingRing! the bell rang we lined up outside for sports.I wasn’t Happy at all because I didn’t want to do sports.We headed to the field and sat in our Age groups and our teams.I was in Green and all my friends were in Red team.I was sad Because I was only slow in the team.

    The games started and the boys got to play games first.It wasn’t fair I said to my self.I thought I wasn’t lucky enough today. It was my turn at last I was afraid to come last but I came second last.

    It was morning tea time and after morning tea It was our turn to play games the only game I like was cisser jump. After games sport day was over I was tired .I saw some boys running like Cheetas.

    The blue team won and I think all the teams good.

    Thank you

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  7. Hi my name is Britney and this is my sports day recount.

    First of all the girls are doing there races whoosh! All of us girls were flying past the finish line.Then finally it came to the 10 years old girls finally came to the starting line then Bang! The 10 years old girls were off racing to come first in a blink of an eye we were at the finish line first place was me Yeah!Then we waited and cheered intel it was our turn again it was face to face again we were as fast as crowed trying to come first place again.Again I came first.It was exciting because blue house was coming first.


    After morning tea the girls were doing the super cool activities.
    Some of the activities we did were hurdles, jump and all so hoops over the flag.
    The activities we did were fun and exciting.

    The house (teams) at our sports day was BLUE, RED, GREEN, YELLOW. Blue and Green house were vs each other like in cheering and song. When the boys were racing we could hear them from the other side of the field it was so loud it was like it was a paraded of people like at the rugby world cup 2011 when the all Blacks won.It was awesome.

    My favorite part of the day was when the girls did the activities.

    Hope you liked my sports day recount.

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  8. Kia Oramy name is Jewels and I am going to tell you how athletics day went on Monday.

    One beautiful morning our school Papatoetoe south did School athletics. We had heaps of different activities with different teahers.

    Firstly before we went to athletics all the children got changed into their P.E gear of there colors. Later on the bell rang and that ment that we had to line out side in our ages and our group color house.

    Next the teachers splited the boys and girls up. The girls satyed on sprints and the boys went and did all the other activities. In Blue the children were the fastest I think thats why we won. some girls were even fast as cheeters and some were even faster than Kangaroos.

    Next was the boys on Sprints, some boys were faster than some girls. Some boys were as fast as lightning bolts, racing cars and heaps of fast things. Most boys were in the blazing BLUE and people who were in Blue were the ones who made us get some points.

    Finally all the children were waiting for the Final races. Everyone was yelling, screaming and shouting suddenly the people were racing they were racing like a blink of a eye.

    The next day after that people were alling the winning team.

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  9. Kia ora my name is Samantha and this is my experience of Athletics day.

    Swoosh Swoosh went a cold breeze on a Monday morning before Athletics day started. Just then I felt a little nervous because I thought it was about to rain but it didn’t rain.

    There were four houses ( teams) named after the colours Red, Green, Blue and Yellow. I was put in charge of Red house. That means I was a leader of Red house and I had to make sure that everyone was sitting in their age groups I also had to make sure that the Red team was cheering loud for our members.

    We had to split up the boys and girls because we couldn’t have all doing sprints or all doing games. Mrs Kelly had put the boys on games first and the girls on the sprints. On the sprints we all went pretty fast but only some people made it to the finals and semi finals. The boys had fun on the games. After morning tea we swapped the girls on games and boys on sprints. It was a racket when the boys cheered they were like drums all playing different tunes.

    The best part of my day was when I played the game called over the hoop. Overall I think that Athletics day turned out to be awsome.

    Thanks for reading!

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  10. Hi my name is Avitesh and I am here to tell you about my day at school athletics.

    On Monday 14th November 2011 Papatoetoe South school had a school athletics day.

    Ring, Ring, Ring! the bell rang we all were very excited for a exciting day at school in school athletics day. The whole school got changed into their P.E gear and ran out onto the field joyfully in our houses.

    Suddenly everyone on went silent. Mrs Kelly arrived and sent the boys off to the activities and got the girls sitting by the tracks to do sprints.

    When we started our activity, the clapper went off for the girls sprints. When I turned around and had a look I saw the 5 year old girls sprinting down the tracks like lighting bolts.

    All the boys did lots of different kinds of activities. While all that was happening the bell rang for morning tea. So we all gathered back together in our houses and went of to morning tea.

    After morning tea we all went back onto the field and sat down in our houses. And this time the boys were at the tracks and the girls got sent to the different activities in their age groups.

    The day went by and every thing was over so we packed all the activities up and the day was over. So thats my day at school athletics day. And in my head the green team were the winners.

    Thanks for looking.

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  11. My name is Petaia and I am going to talk about Papatotoe south school sports day.

    Ring,ring,ring the bell went for sports day everyone was excited people were warming up we went to line up outside to line up in our house colors.The house colors were Green, Red, Yellow and last but not least Blue.

    We got to the field and Mrs Kelly came and the boys got split up. The boys had to do Hurdles,over the flag pole, kneel and sling, scissors jumps and many other activity but the girls had to do the sprints. I saw some girls they were running as fast as hungry cheetahs chasing their food or prey.

    After morning tea we swapped around the boys had to do the sprints and the girls had to the other sports that the boys did. Once it was my age turn to race I felt like I had butterflies in my tummy. Once I got to the end of the track I felt proud of my self because I made it to the finals.

    At the end in first place was Blue color house then Red house after them were Green house but last place was Yellow house.

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  12. Salam my name is Nabeel and I'm going to tell you about our athletics day on Monday.

    It was a sunny, hot day at Papatoetoe South School and our teachers asked us to sit in our age lines. There was four team which were YELLOW team, BLUE team, GREEN team and last but not least the RED team.

    Next Mrs Kelly shouted and said that the boys are doing activities and the girls are doing sprints. The boys did all kinds of activities like the hoop throws, bean bag throws, beat the balls, hurdles and many more activities.

    After morning tea the boys were doing the sprints and the girls were doing the activities. The sprints started from the lowest age to the highest age. When it was the ten year olds turn to sprint I was nervous as a boy having his first day in a new school. I was picked for the race with five other members. After the clappers I went of as fast as a rocket flying to the moon but unfortunately I ended up coming fourth.

    When the races were finished I was as tired as a bull running out of strength and the the red team came second I was so proud of myself.

    Thank you for reading my post I hope you enjoyed it.

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  13. Kia ora my name is Jaylen and I was excited and I am going to tell you about our school sports day.

    One cold morning Papatoetoe South School had school
    athletics on Monday.That one day there was a lot of activity’s like,sprints,kneel and sling,the over flag pole and scissors jump and a lot more.

    At first I was unhappy to do sprint at all but I had a go
    and then came fourth out of ten year olds and it was fantastic.

    Second of all the girls went first at sprinting well the boys
    had a go at kneel,sling,the over flag pole and other
    amazing things.


    At last the end of the day we didn’t get to do relays
    but unless everyone had lots of fun.


    The house colors were BLUE,GREEN,RED and YELLOW.Well the blue team one anyway with 990 points.And I just want to say to the blue team

    .......CONGRATULATIONS BLUE TEAM.....

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  14. Hi my name is Prabhsimran and i'll tell you about Papatoetoe souths athletics day.

    One sweaty day which is Monday was just no monday it was athletics day.So we got into p.e gear and got in lines.First us boys went to do some activity's which were hoop throw,scissors jump,teddy bear throw,run and jump.

    While we were playing we looked at the amazing,fast girls running just like to save their lives.Then after the passing hours we played they raced when finally it was our turn our to do the life threatening 100 meters RUN.We ran like it was world war 3 but I came 5th but never lost hope.But
    BLUE won.HIP HIP HORRAY

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  15. Greetings and hi my name is Adrian and I am going to tell you about athletes day.

    They were as fast as a meteorite about to hit earth.

    It was like playing basket ball when I had to through the small dinosaur in the small hoop.

    I ran as fast as a cheater chasing its prey.

    I felt like a dehydrated fish in the boiling hot sun unless I had my hat on.
    I could see John running his hardest to beat me and he did beat me.

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  16. Hi my name is Mac and i will be talking about how i did at athletics.

    Monday 14 was a big day because it was Papaoteotoe south school athletics day. The field was packed with lot of different games like the sprints, the hurdles, hoop flag and all sort of many games. The teachers decided to let the boy’s do all the fun activity’s first and make the girl’s do the sprints first. Once I saw the little girl’s getting I felt nervous because I thought that that green might come last today. BAM !!! loud as a fire shot the girls let of as fast as a jet plain flying across the sky. Wow I thought thinking to myself.

    After the bell went for morning tea. Me, Sione and Ruben went to check out the scores, wow Ruben said blue has a lots of scores. RIIIIIIIIING! Sione, Ruben and I was waiting all morning for the boys races to start. sione was racing in the 10 years olds and me and Ruben was racing in the 11 years old.

    Finally the bell for lunch went and Sione, Ruben and I came back together and told each what they came. Ruben came 2nd in all his races, Sione came 1st in all his races, and I came 1st in all my races.

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  17. Ola my name is Vivek and I am going to right a recount about sports day.

    On Monday the 14 November we had sports day at Papatoetoe South school.

    First all the boys and the girls were separated into two groups.Then all the boys went and did softball throws and after that they did throw the hoop over the flag.When we did throw the hoop activity we all had to get in the groups of eight and then we had to sit in a line so we could take turns on throwing the hoop over the flag. Whoosh the wind blew like crazy and our hoops were flying away like kites.Everything was starting to blow away till the sun came breaking threw the clouds shining at us like magic.


    After that we all had turns throwing and catching the hoops and thats how we got to our second activity kneel and sling.We all started to get excited !’; yahoo we some people went crazy just looking at the activity.Every body that was in my group was having a great time.


    Next we went to the hurdles it was fun.We were separated into two groups and then we had races.From each group one person went at a time and we had to race over the hurdles and the first one from the two groups get one point.When it was my turn i ran as fast as a lightning bolt.


    Finally every thing was over and the team that won was the blue team but atleast my team the enormous red team came second and that was much more better than coming last.


    Thank you for reading my comment.

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  18. Talofa my name is Vaeila and I am going to tell you about the amazing athletics on Monday. They were fast like are lion running for some prey. It was running away from a tornado. The wind blew me away to make me run even faster then the others but I end up coming 4th. I was going to get some water even though I was't allowed to. I could see every one giving it their all to get some points for their team to win.

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  19. Malo e leilei and welcome to the Papatoetoe South School athletics we had such a great time there. So sit back relax and enjoy the athletics recount day.

    On monday we had just finished doing our hole School athletics which was really good and was a great and fantastic day. The first thing was that miss Kelly had to put all the boys ages in order from 5-11 year olds to their activities.

    Next the ten year old boys went with Mr Williams to the first activitie for us was over the flag. It was easy because I was to tall so I made my team come in first place and we got 32 hoop points in so I was really proud to be there. But I had 2 misses which was pretty stink. I felt nervous because it was to much people that were to good and one was specially the other teams.

    The activities I liked best was the hurdles and it was very fast. And the sprints were very hard to do kinda.

    Finally it was the end of the day it was a BOMBING day and the blue team won.

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  20. Kia Ora my name is Korey and i'm going to tell you about athletics that was on Monday

    One frosty morning at Papatoetoe south school we had athletics there were four team Blue,Green,red and yellow. First we were divided in groups first the girls did sprints well the boys did activity's there was scissors jump, beat the ball, hurdles,sprints and much more.

    After morning tea the boys had sprints and the girls did the activity's the sprint races were in age order I was cherring for the boys and girls in the blue team who giving it there all.

    After the boys did sprints it was the semis and finals when the girls and boys came together for semis and finals it went girl then boy for racing

    Finally at the the end they announced the winner which was the mighty BLUE!!!!

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  21. Ding!Ding!Ding! ,the bell rang, we went to the field to get into our teams colors and I’m in the red team.We were all excited to be involved in the awesome athletics day.It was very hot day we already started river of sweat from the heat.Now the day started.

    We were all fighting to win the athletics,so we were at our best behavior to get the most points.The girls were racing first and the boys were doing the activities first.There were lots of activities like scissors jumps,hurdles,beat the ball and much,much more.

    It was time for my race, I was really nervous to be race against Sione the fastest child in school just like 2010.I ended up being third,just behind Will.My team red came second overall.I thought athletics was really fun and challenging and I’m looking forward to see how athletics is in Pap Int.Blue team watch out we still have revenge on you!!

    Gracias for reading my recount.

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  22. Malo and my name is Dean welcome to school athletics which was presenting by Papatoetoe south school.
    On the dark cloudy morning we just got out of the class room and went to go on the field.

    There was fast flash for they life.
    I filet like i had butterflies in my stomach.
    i cold see well runners there were trying there best.

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  23. Hi my name is Vaisiliva and i am going to tell you how it went at athletics
    on Monday.

    One exciting sunny morning we had a whole school athletic day.That day we had lots of fun activities like,spirinting beat the ball,hopp over the pole
    and other fun activites.

    Firstly the girls and boys got split up into their groups.The boys had to line up in their age groups while the girls got stay in their colour groups and race diffirent girls their age in different groups.

    The blue team came 1st red team came 2nd green team came3rd and the yellow team came last. Finally athelitics was finished and i felt devastated.

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  24. Hi my name is Matthew here is my recount of school sport day.


    Today it was school sport day because they was lot of games at this day. I got in my p.e-gear and got ready for it.
    They was four house for the teams.They was red,blue,green and yellow.


    The school sport day started.They was lot of people like a
    pride. First we doing the games it was so fun. after done the games we have break like have our food.


    The sprits has started so first 7 year old,8,9 at last 10 year old that I was in it.The race gotta start. I looking
    at the finish line. The race started then go. I was running hard but I did’t made it because was last place.

    Good news red was 2’th place.

    that all

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  25. Hi my name is Sammy and today I will be telling you about mondays Athletics.

    It was a Hot day. The boys did the other activities while the girls did the sprints with the other Teachers. The boys went to go do other activities like throw the hoop,throw the bean bags,and jump over the sticks.

    It was the most fun I ever had in days at school. when the boys went to go and race we got a number from one to six and when you get a number you will have to race with the people that got pieced in one of those numbers. When I got called out I was number six and when they hit the clapper they raced with me until me and Kava were coming to be a even until we passed the finish line until mrs D picked me to be third in the tournament it was the best moment ever in my life.when I watched the nine year olds race in the big race. I hoped that I come first in the race with the other fast people but I came 4th in it anyway but it was a tuff race

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  26. Bula my name is Terepo and Im going to tell you about athletics that happened on monday.

    On monday in the morning room 19 were going to do fitness then something unordinary happened just after we did fitness and it was athletics for half of the day. We were going to have athletics,After we new we had athletics I quickly got changed as fast as I could.It was like I was rushing because lava came down the hill because I worried to much because I thought I was going to come last.

    Next the teachers told us to line up to tell us witch teacher go to and to do the activities they have set up for us and the whole school. Some activities were jumping but there were mostly throwing activities at athletics

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  27. Hi my name is Robert, and I’m going to tell you about my athletics day.

    First the girls started they’re races. “WHOOSH” the girls went. Everyone was cheering for they’re own team, no one stopped.

    The boys were doing fun, amazing activates that Mrs Stowers set up for the school.

    Every ten minutes, I had to move all the boys around on a circuit.

    After morning tea. The girls did the activates, and the boys did running, all the boys run like cheaters.

    At the end BLUE, RED, GREEN and YELLOW were busting to find out the winner.
    BLUE was cheering because they won.

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  28. Hello my name is Anureet and I'm going to tell u about the amazing athletics that was on monday.
    It was so exciting when people were running fast as fast as a blink of an eye. When it was my turn to run i was so tired and i sat down i felt good. Then it was the boy's turn to run after a while the girl's did the activities and we went home later.

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  29. Hi my name is Tauseeb and i will talk to you about the papatoetoe south school sports day.

    On monday the 14/11/11 we had school sports day we had 4 diffrent colour houes teams. They were blue,red,green and yellow.

    As soon as i herd this i went to get chaned in the wash room. When we got out side we went to our house teams in our ages. The team I was in was the blue team and i was in the 10 year old line because I am 10.

    We had to run,jump,throw and catch and some more witch i forgot but it was fun.

    The winning team was red just jokes it was blue. The team I was in ! red came 2 green came 3 and yellow came 4. It was fun doing all those activities.

    thankes for reading my recount bye.

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  30. Kia Ora my name is Tane and i’m going to tell you about athletics on Monday 4th November.

    Firstly on a lovely bright and sunny morning Room 19 lined up in the sun to do athletics. My adrenalin was pumping with excitement and fear. there was 4 coloured teams mighty RED, lightning YELLOW, smart GREEN and cheerful BLUE. Most activities were exciting like hurdles , scissors jump, hoop throw, beat the ball and many more.

    Secondly, The first to do sprints was the girls. The girls were hungry Cheaters on the African plain. After morning tea it was the boys turn to do sprints and some boys were faster then I thought.

    Finally, the next day they announced the winners. And it was BLUE abut I was still happy because RED came 3rd.

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  31. Hi my name is Rohil and I am going to tell you about school sports day.

    ON Monday morning we were sorted in our house colours. The colours of our house are Blue,Green,Red,and last but not least Yellow.

    WE had lots of activities to do.we had boys doing races.The boys were fast as a speedy Train.

    The last race was tough as a nail but still people won the race.

    The winners,Blue came first,Yellow came second,Red came third,and Green came fourth.

    It was a great day.
    I hope you like this comment.

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  32. Hi my name is Deacan and I will be talking about an event that happened on Monday 14 November. It was my school athletics day.

    It was cold but sunny that day. Me and my class had to line up in our team houses. The team houses were BLUE, RED, YELLOW and GREEN. I was in the MIGHTY RED team. We headed to where everyone else was. On the field.

    The girls started the races and the boys started the activities. There were many activities to do like Hurdles, Bet the ball and Throw thee chicken.

    Now it was time for the boys to run and the girls to do the activities. I came second and fourth in my first two races. Many of us tried our hardest.

    RING!!! it was time for lunch

    When we came back the results for the day came back. BLUE cam first second was RED third was GREEN and last was YELLOW.

    I enjoyed having athletics and i hope everyone else did .

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  33. Hi my name is Elias and Ii am going to tell you about our school athletic day.

    As the bell rang we all got ready for the school athletic fun day i was excited and so was some of my friends.

    The boys started of with the equipment and the girls started of with the sprints.

    I jumped as high as I can when we went to the hurdles and i aimed my best to get the hoop onto the flag pole.

    As the day went on I waited for the boys to go to sprints and then it was our turn after morning tea.

    on my first race I came 2nd and on my and on my second race I came 4th by the ways blue won

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  34. Hi my Name is Priya and this is what we did in athletics day.

    On Monday the 14 of November we had athletics so we had a range of activities that we did the whole day.

    First we went on the felid and got into our color teams the color teams are YELLOW, RED.GREEN, BLUE.The girls started with the running races while the boys did their activities.
    The girls started with the 5yr all the way to 11yr.
    After morning tea the girls went to do the activities while the boys did the races, the activities we had were sprints, Kneel and sling, over the flag pole, beat the ball, hurdles, scissors jump and lots more.

    Finally blue won first place, we had a fun and awesome day while we went back to class.

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