School Swimming Sports is being held this coming Monday - 6th March at Jellie Park Pool.

Dear Parents and Caregivers

- Students will need to wear their full school uniform to school and are encouraged to have a house colour t-shirt in their bag. It may be easiest if students have their togs under their school uniform. They can change into their house colour t-shirt quickly at morning tea.

- Students will only be taking their swimming bag to the pool, not their entire school bag. Please pack the following items in a clearly named swimming bag: named towel, goggles, swim cap, water bottle and snacks. All rubbish from snacks need to be taken home, not left at the pool!

- Ages for events are as of January 1, 2017 (e.g. if someone had their 10th birthday on the 3rd March, they will still race in the 9 years category).

- Only students who compete in the 50m (2 lengths) race can qualify for the zone swimming event.

- Students must enter in a minimum of 2 events (unless they come to school with a written note explaining why they are unable to participate). 

- Students cannot do both length and width events for the same swimming stroke.

- The width event is for those swimmers who do not feel confident enough to do a length. Swimmers are permitted to touch the bottom of the pool if they need to during the width events only. Touching the bottom of the pool during a length event will result in a disqualification.

- There is no width event for butterfly and the length event is an 'open event', meaning that students compete against all ages (e.g. 9 year olds swim against 12 years olds). This is a zone and Canterbury requirement.