This term the Year Eights' topic is "Challenge". Here's a great example of someone taking on some huge challenges, stepping up and achieving some great results. Well done Meg, your hard work has paid off.
"In the holidays just gone I have been in Invercargill competing
in a national synchronised swimming competition. Synchronised swimming is a
sport which is split into two categories:
1. Figures (a slow movement through
different positions)
2. Routine (a 2 – 5 minute song where you synchronise to
the music.)
You can compete in a team, a duet, a solo and a combo, you can also
compete in different age groups: Dolphin, 12 and under, 13, 14, 15, Junior and
senior . You compete against other people in your age and get judged by 6 – 10
judges.
I competed for my club Aquagold and for Balmacewen
Intermediate school. I came 1st in my Intermediate olo for
Balmacewen, 1st in my 12 and under solo for Aquagold, and 1st
in my 12 and under Figures for Aquagold."
