Medbury School
Play the Game
North Island Sports Tour Clean sweeps and quick thinking teachers On 16 August 34 boys and 4 staff arrived at
football all kicked off at 10.30am to play in very rainy
Christchurch Airport at 7:30am to board an 8:35am
conditions. Every boy tried his best and again it
flight to Wellington.
was a clean sweep with Medbury winning all three
All the boys were buzzing with excitement and
games, basketball 73-11, hockey 3-0, football 8-2.
wondering who they would be sitting next to on the plane. The plane ride to Wellington went like a blur. We grabbed our bags then hopped on the bus for a talk from Mr Johnson about the slightly odd rules that would apply for the whole trip due to COVID-19.
After the boy’s dried off and changed, we headed to Wanganui Collegiate Dining Hall for a lovely hot lunch. After lunch we had some speeches and awards were given out for players of the match: hockey, Tate Aikawa; football, Hugo Fairweather-
After a three hour bus trip through a scenic part of
Logie; and basketball, Jackson Grace.
the North Island we arrived at the Palmerston North
Then off on another long bus trip to Havelock North,
Hockey Turf to watch a fabulous game of hockey
heading to Hereworth School. We headed to our
against Huntley School, which we won 2-1. Tate
billet’s homes only to find out an hour later that the
Aikawa won Player of the Match.
whole country was heading into a Level 4 lockdown!
Then we jumped back on the bus for a quick twenty
After some quick thinking from the teachers, they
minute drive to Huntley School in Marton. Football kicked off at 3.00pm and was another successful game, with Medbury winning 9-2 and Manoj Solai winning man of the match. Basketball tipped off at 4.00pm in the Huntley Gym. Medbury played a great game. We ended up winning 69-8. Huntley played
managed to get us into the Hereworth Boarding House to stay the night. We woke in the morning to find out that we had flights back home. However, some boys had a long five and a half hour drive back to Wellington to catch a flight home, others having a very long wait at Napier Airport, then Auckland
well considering they didn’t have an official basketball
Airport.
team and we appreciated them assembling a team
Thank you to Mr Gilbert, Mr Johnson, Mr Bath, Mr
for us to play. Jackson Grace won Player of the Match.
Pilgrim and Miss Seales. Your quick thinking got us all
Then a very quick change and off to their Hall to meet
home safely and we had a great couple of days on
our billets that we stayed with for the night.
tour. Also thank you to the billeting families who went
Tuesday was an early start, heading back to Huntley
out of their way to look after us.
School for an early Chapel service in their quaint old Chapel that sat in the centre of the School. Then off on the bus again to Whanganui for our fixtures against St George’s School. Basketball, hockey and
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Jackson Grace, 8S Head of Sport
