Soccer and Swimming.

On Friday the Fifa World Cup began in South Africa. This has caused great excitement in Cape Town, South Africa and indeed the world. Even in this very unsoccerfied household, we have caught the fever! Can't imagine the fever pitch in a soccer-crazy household!!

Most schools had some sort of celebration to mark the event being held on the African continent for the first time.

Greenfield had a mini-world cup that took place over the last 3 days of school. The school was divided into the 32 teams that are playing in the real world cup and they played preliminary rounds on Monday and Tuesday and held the finals on Wednesday - the last day of the term.

It was a great morning, all involved in the organisation put in a lot of effort.

The girls had a lot of fun and so did the parents!!

There was a lot of patriotism around!!
Each winning team received a trophy and each child received a medal.

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Then, on Saturday, Abigail took part in her first club swimming gala.

She was a bit apprehensive as it was a new experience for both of us but she did well in the end and won her heat.

top left: she got a "Splash" cap for taking part; bottom left: trying to plead her way out of taking part!; top right: climbing onto the very high starting block; bottom right: 25m later and smiling!