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Sports
Sports Day returns to the IBSB Calendar by Radu Nica and Robert Airinei, Year 8
Sports Day is the best way to end a term. Every student
however, the start is for most a pretty stressful experience,
battling to win points for their house, so it’s a competitive
because everyone is watching and you want to do well. Timing
day - and sports competitions are our favourite!
is therefore very important to ensure you get a good, clean start!
Sports Day for the secondary school students includes a
With the sprints over, the rest of the day saw both the primary
variety of events: 100m sprint, long jump, high jump, shot
and secondary school classes move into group rotations from
put, 400m sprint, football dribbling (all by yourself!), and
event to event. The first event in the rotation for Y8 was the long
the house relay races to finish off. For the Primary school
jump. The current world record for men is 8.95m and for women
students, the activities are less traditional in terms of
it is 7.52m. Each of us had one attempt to jump as far as we
athletic events, with more collaborative activities, including
could, and were instructed to start slow and slowly accelerate
a variety of relay races, such as the potato sack race,
as ran toward to the line, rather than starting with our maximum
beanbag tossing relay, and hoop running events, to name
speed, and to try to jump exactly on the line to secure the best
just a few. Individual events for the primary school included
possible result. Some of us messed up the jump, as you might
gumboot tossing and the long jump.
expect, with the longest jump for our class being 3.30m - just a little short of the world record mark.
Before any of the main events started, however, we all gathered with our friends for the aerobics warm-up
Next up, was the high jump. For the high jump, you simply need
session, led this year by our primary school PE Teacher,
to jump over a bar; if you touch it, you are out. The current world
Alexandru Lacraru, in preparation for the first event of the
record is 2.45m for men and 2.09m for women. Fortunately
day, being the 50-100m sprint.
for everyone, in the first 2 rounds there were retries. It got difficult very quickly, though, and so most of the students were
Everyone is excited as we walked toward the start line,
eliminated in the 2nd/3rd round. There were 5 people left in
your heart feeling like it’s going to explode. The primary
round 4 and then only 2 students went on to battle it out for 1st
school started first, so everyone in secondary were able to
and 2nd place, with 3 left to battle for 3rd place. They competed
enjoy seeing them compete, from the cute early students
for a further 7 rounds just to determine the 3rd place, with the
running a wobbly 50m line, to increasingly confident and
jumps becoming higher and harder each time.
competitive Y6 students running the full 100m distance as we cheered on the sidelines; it’s always exciting to see
Next came the shot put. The shotput requires you to throw a
your house colours crossing the line first. As a competitor,
3kg metal ball as far as you can. The world record for the longest