Last Friday on week 5 Tamaki primary had their athletics, The houses were Tripoli(Blue), Tobruk(Red), Benghazi(Green and Alamaine(Yellow). The first thing we did we did was there was some students that had to help set the gazebos for all four houses and the seniors from each house had to decorate their own gazebo and then while some seniors did the decorations some other seniors had to help the juniors with their face paint. When the bell rang everyone had to go to class and teachers had to write on everyone's hand what their age was because that is what we were doing our races/events in. Then everyone had to sit on the dots but with their house and the principle had a talk with us before we started the day. After the talk one house at a time had to walk around the track singing their chants and then sit underneath their gazebo quietly waiting for the teachers. Once everyone sat down the principle told Alamaine to stand in front of the other houses and sing their chants, next up was Benghazi and Tripoli and finally Tobruk then after the chants the principle chose which house had the best chant and which house was the best dressed which was Benghazi and Tobruk, after the chants was the field events the field events were Shot put, Standing jump, Discus, Long jump and High jump, that was the order of the 12/13 year old students. The students that placed 1st 2nd and 3rd in each field event, Shot put - boys - 1st/Timote, 2nd/Paula and 3rd was Kordell, Standing jump - boys - 1st/Kordell, 2nd/Havea and 3rd was Eh htoo wah, Girls - 1st/Hope, 2nd/Falakika and 3rd was Chanel then for Discus - boys - 1st/Paula, 2nd/Kordell and 3rd was Raymond next was Long jump Boys - 1st/Paula, 2nd/Auckland and 3rd was Sunny, Girls - 1st/Channel, 2nd/Courtney and 3rd was Hope. Finally High jump boys - 1st/Paula, 2nd/Auckland and 3rd was Kordell. After the field events it was morning tea.
