THE SWIMATHON, 21-22 MAY 2011

Thank you so much for your support with this, to support the Lord's Taverners. Charitable donations should be made payable to Caldicott Trust Limited.

Saturday 21st MAY
0900 – 0950 : 4th Form
0950 – 1040 : 3rd Form
1040 – 1130 : 2nd Form
1130 – 1220 : 1st Form

1030 – 1220 : One lane for parents
1330 – 1630 : One lane for parents

Sunday 22nd MAY
0930 – 1030 : 6th Form
1030 – 1130 : 5th Form

The Sponsorship Form is here: please support this charity.

You may remember the Sponsored Swim ran by Ma'am Bisschop in 2009. We intended to swim the length of the Channel (in our safe swimming pool, of course!), but actually did considerably more.

All ages and abilities welcome - scenes from the previous Sponsored Swim

This year Ma'am Kroiter organised another one, supporting the Lord's Taverners on the whole Saturday, and the Sunday morning of the fete and, indeed, in a few sessions afterwards. Our target was to swim the distance from Kate Middleton’s home in Bucklebury to Buckingham Palace (AND BACK!). This is a total of 168km.

The Lord's Taverners is a great charity: I am sure that they will forgive me quoting from their website:

'... we have developed into both a vibrant Club and a Charity. We have thousands of members who all share a love of cricket and a desire to ensure that as many children as possible, especially those with special needs, have the chance to participate in sport and recreation. We are recognised by the England and Wales Cricket Board as the official national charity for recreational cricket.'

Well, on Saturday and Sunday 21st & 22nd May Caldicott supported them. All boys took part, to their own level, of course - those not so secure in the water could use float aids, and those who were the 'stars' were counting the lengths they did! Parents, of course, wouldn't be so boastful ...

SUCCESS: Thursday, 26 May: The Final Results

We smashed our target and as a school we have swum 9948 lengths. This is 199km! On Wednesday night four members of staff swam 410 lengths each in a mission to beat Mr Scott-Lyon’s 404! Ma’am Kroiter and Mr Hanrahan started the epic swim at 1740, emerging 2-3 hours later. They were then joined by Ma’am Langley and Mr Langley who completed their swim at around 2000. Ma’am Doggart also joined in at 2130 to swim 100 lengths.

In an additional Fourth Form games session the following boys also contributed and swam 480 lengths between them: J Pickering, A Curtis, A Elgendy, G Thompson, W A’Brassard, O Atkins, G Acland, J Granville, C Goswami-Myserscough, H McClean, W Prew, E Cuttell, T Gosal