Swimming Along

Welcome to some our new swimmers who started last week, Bertie Bishop, Jacob Wright and Oliver Steer.
Many of our swimmers are doing really well this term and getting lots of new PBs.
Our next competition will be on wednesday 17 November at 7.30pm at Horfield Leisure Centre.
Race schedules will be posted on the noticeboard in the Trym Diner.

HRTSSL HORFIELD 7.30 6 OCTOBER

First gala of the season and good luck to our team for tonights swim.

come along and cheer

Please join us next wed 6 October at Horfield for our first gala of this academic year.

Important Dates

Please note the following Henleaze Round Table School Swimming League Dates

All Wednesdays
6th October 2010
17th November 2010
19th January 2011
16th March 2011
18th May 2011
29th June 2011

All Galas will take place at Horfield Swimming Pool.

Come on in the Water is Lovely!!!!

Welcome back to the start of a new Gala Season, training will start back on Thursday 9 September, all swimmers in the pool for 0815hrs please.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS......WELL NEARLY!

CONGRATULATIONS, to all our swimmers who pulled it out of the bag to win the gala on Wednesday. Which ment we came second overall for the year. What an immense achievement for our swimmers who have made such amazing progress throughout the year.
Well done.
Gala training will start back the first week of term.

GALA TRIALS

We will be holding trials on Thursday 8 July at 8.15 am until 9am at Henbury School Pool.
If you are interested in joining our gala swim team then please come along for a trial.
Please contact Clare for further info

Wishing Daniella lots of love

One of our lovely year 3 swimmers has broken her arm and is unable to take part in this weeks gala.
We wish you a speedy recovery, get better soon
love the swim team

HRTSSL GALA WEDNESDAY 7 JULY

Our final gala of the year.......can we win.

BADMINTON GALA TOUGH BUT WELL FOUGHT

Yesterday our school gala squad swam against a very strong Badminton Girls Team. Our year 3s did brilliantly beating Badminton, the year 4s drew and our year 5s and 6s lost by very small margin.
All swimmers did really well and they all did the school proud.
Well done all.

Its not the winning its the taking part that counts!

Well done to our swimmers who fought to the bitter end at last nights HRTSSL Gala. Bishop Road and St Bons are really producing amazing swimmers at the moment but our kids kept going and we got a respectable score in the end.
Well done to Charlie Waters who got a first place and to the relay teams who got second place.
Next event is at Badminton School on Monday 7 June.

HRTSSL GALA WEDNESDAY 19 MAY

Our next fixture is on Wed 19 May at Horfield Swimming Pool. We will be taking on our usual contestants St Theresas, Bishop Road, St Bonaventures and Hollymead.

Can all selected swimmers please meet in the entrance hall at 7.15pm

see you there and good luck!

BRISTOL PRIMARY SCHOOLS SWIMMING FINALS 2010

Well done to our swimmers who made it to the final of Bristol Primary Schools on Saturday at Horfield. The standard of swimming was amazing, so we were immensely proud of Charlie Waters and Adam Kenny who both got placed. Our relay teams and medley team did us proud beating their previous personal bests.

Next event HRTSSL on Wed 19th May at Horfield Leisure Centre.

BRISTOL PRIMARY SCHOOLS SWIMMING FINALS SATURDAY 8TH MAY 2010

We are all looking forward to the Bristol Primary Schools Swimming Finals next weekend, many of our gala swimmers have beaten tons of other kids and have made it through, so well done.

Congratulations to the following swimmers:

Gabe Sully (flyer for medley team)

Matthew Warbis (front crawl for relay team)

Rachel Isaac (girls medley, freestyle team)

Charlie Waters (Individual Medley, freestyle relay and medley)

Isobel Smith( freestyle team and medley team)

Isabelle Thorpe (freestyle team and medley team)

Thomas Rodderick (breast stroke x 1 length and freestyle team)

Jack Osborne (freestyle team and 1 x length f/c reserve)

Ted Blackmoore (medley team)

Wenzel Woltersdorf(freestyle team)

Our Millfield Girls Team 2010

Millfield Rocks

Well what a fab time we all had on our little outing to Millfield school. We were all aghast at the enormity of it all, even we dont have a Helipad on our playing field! The swimming facilities were awesome and we all had good fun. We werent winners but we certainly took part so well done guys.

English Schools Swimming Association

Good luck to some of our year 5/6 swimmers who will be attending this event at Millfield School on Monday evening.

We have four teams in the competition, two boys and two girls. There is one freestyle relay race and a medley team race. We will be competiting against other schools from as far as Cornwall and up to Gloucestershire.

The best teams will go onto the finals in Sheffield in June.

Westbury on Trym School Gala Swimming Team

Each Thursday morning from 0815-0900hrs during school term we meet at Henbury Swimming Pool for Gala Training.

Children are selected to take part in the training through a trial system. Our coach is Karen Thorpe who is an ex GB Synchronised Swimming Team member and is now a Talent Scout for the GB Swimming team.

Children must be between the ages of 8 and 11 are chosen on their swimming ability, technique, speed and reliability as a team member.

All children would be expected to attend other swimming lessons as well as Gala Training.

Throughout the year we take part in a series of galas which take place every second month on a Wednesday evening at Horfield Swimming Pool. Here we compete against Hollymead, St Theresas, Bishop Road and St Bonaventures Primary Schools.

The final of these galas will be held in July.

We also take part in the English Schools Swimming Events which take place in Millfield and we also take part in the Bristol Schools Swimming Competition as well.

Westbury on Trym has a long successful history of Gala Swimming and two of our girls (Abbie Bowring now year 7 at St Mary Redcliffe) and Charlie Waters hold several of the Bristol Schools Swimming records, which is a huge achievement.

If you feel you would like to join our gala squad then please contact Clare Warbis on 07986 848067 for further information. Trials for new swimmers will be towards the end of the summer term.