June 5, 2015
It's Washimiyasai 2015!
After being delayed for a day by rain, the sun shone brilliantly as Seiritsu held its annual sports "Washimiyasai" festival at the Washinomiya ground on Thursday June 4th.
Remembering last year's washout, everyone was very happy that it was a sunny day. The ground has also had a new synthetic pitch installed since last year's festival, meaning that the previous day's rain had all drained away.
All years are equally divided into 5 colour groups: Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, and Purple. all classes must try and win points for their colour group!
Although a fun day for all years, the Washimiyasai is particularly important for junior high 1st years and high school students in their final year. Even more so as this year's graduating class has the first students to have passed through both all six years of education at Seiritsu. Because of this, the third years had a large part in organising the event, and did really well with it!
After a fierce battle (including a heated contest with the athlete programme classes), Purple team eventually emerged victorious after a fantastic end relay.
Congratulations, Team purple; and otsukaresamadeshita to everyone!
Of course, I managed to get a few shots of our girls karate team getting ready for their Kanto tournament..
Peter Williams
International Department Coordinator