Field Trip - the Swimming Carnival

 Morning assembly with the students of the week.

 Our coaches await!

 The facility.

Monday, February 15^th.

Rode the bike to school again today. Today was our first field trip. They call it the Swimming Carnival. We had our Monday morning assembly outside again. Today they honoured the student of the week from each class. Right after that we did attendance and lined the kids up to take the buses to the pool. These were not the run of the mill yellow school buses, they were air-conditioned coaches! And there were six of them.

The bus ride was only about ten minutes before we arrived at the outdoor, Olympic sized swimming pool. What a beautiful facility. Leora the physical education teacher did an excellent job organizing it. There were heats and races for boys and girls of all ages from grade 3,4,5 and 6 in all the disciplines: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. Some of the students were excellent. We were there the whole day and there were no issues with student behaviours.

When we got back to school we had a half hour before the end of day bell. Then Claire and I had to organize our times for the parent-teacher information nights that will happen over the next two weeks. Then we had our Monday evening professional learning meeting until 5:00, whereupon I rode home again.

I spent the evening catching up on the blog, all five posts.