We are doing some fantastic descriptive writing in Room 6. I just want to share a couple of pieces with you about the swimming sports a few weeks ago.

What a Race!!

As I stepped up to the blocks, my knees were wobbling like jelly. I was trying to calm myself down, when suddenly, the hooter went off!!!

 A single thought flashed through my head, “what?”

 I desperately threw myself into the water but I was already behind and the race was on!!!

As I pounded through the water like a fish on steroids, I could see a person swimming like crazy in front of me. Very soon though, the swimmer faded behind me and I kept swimming as fast as my flying arms would allow me.

 When I hit the wall I looked around, expecting a second or a third placing. But I found, to my extreme excitement, that I was first by a few metres.

Henry Townsend.