Maya Angelou quotes: 15 of the best

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

The love of the family, the love of the person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Nothing will work unless you do.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Please find below the meet program for the meet tomorrow.

2 Fast 2 Furious Swim Meet Program

Warm up begins at 8am.

If you are taking the bus it will leave at 7.30am prompt.

Shrewsbury Storm temporary tattoos will be available at 10thb each.

On Thursday May 22nd the swimmers undertook a 200m kick and swim test, where the goal was to equal or better their swim time when kicking.

Congratulations to Win and Nana for recording the fastest 200m Freestyle Kick and Swim times.

Mark C recorded the closest 200m freestyle kick time to his swim time.

Well done to everyone who took part.

Shrewsbury International School will host the first ever FOBISIA Age Group Long Course Swimming Championships, January 23rd – 25th 2015. Please save this date in your diary.

Held over three days, the event will consist of heat and finals. Swimmers will compete in their age groups (age on midnight Monday 26th January).

• Age Group Categories:

Girls – 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 years

Boys – 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 years

• Individual Events:

50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m (Girls) & 1500m Freestyle (Boys)

50m, 100m & 200m Backstroke, Breaststroke & Butterfly

200m & 400m Individual Medley

• Relay Team Events.

Girls & Boys: 9 – 18 years: 4 x 100m Medley, 4 x 50m Freestyle and 4 x 100m Freestyle.

Events Schedule:

FOBISIA Swimming Invitational Long Course Age Group Championships 2015

Event Schedule

Further details regarding selection will be available early in the new school year.

Please see below for the final details of the 2 Fast 2 Furious swim meet on Saturday.

The warm up will begin at 8am on Saturday. If you are making your own way directly to Harrow International School please aim to arrive no later than 8am.

If you are taking the school bus, the bus will leave from school at 7.30am prompt.

All swimmers should wear the green and gold swim suit and white swim hat with dark green Shrewsbury (available in the school shop). Swimmers should bring with them sun screen, a hat, t shirt for when they are not swimming and a water bottle to keep hydrated.

If this is your first swim meet, please download the Shrewsbury Swim Meet Guidelines here:  Swim Meet Guidelines for New Swimmers

It is expected the meet will conclude at 1pm.

Events:

All swimmers may swim 3 individual events and 2 relays (the swim coaches will confirm the relay orders on Saturday morning)

Prizes:

Heat winner ribbons and medals for 1^st 2^nd& 3rd overall.

Entry Lists can be viewed here: Team List

Meet Information from Harrow can be viewed here: Meet Information

If you have any further questions regarding the swim meet, please do not hesitate to contact me in the Sports and Activities Office.

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Saturday June 7th

Placing are filling fast, please enter here : Triathlon Entry Form

For details of the routes please see the swimming notice board.

Dear Swimmers and Parents.

The final swim meet of the year originally scheduled for June 14th has been moved to the week of June 2nd  – 5th.

The meet will for the first time use the FINA points system, where swimmers score points for the speed of their swim.

Swimmers will need to attend all three sessions in order to gain maximum points.

Monday June 2nd – Best 50m event & 200m Freestyle (swimmers will swim 50m on all four strokes, with the best result used for their final points total).

Tuesday June 3rd – 100m Form Events (not freestyle)

Thursday 5th June – 100 & 200 IM

Points are awarded using the FINA points system (FINA points rank from 1 – 1100) this system is used worldwide to rank swimmers. An app can be downloaded from the google play store to help you calculate your points: FINA App

To understand more how the points are calculated please follow this link from the FINA website: FINA points calculation. FINA points are automatically calculated by the software program used to operate all swimming meets and can be followed on the Meet Mobile App on your mobile device.

Swimmers will compete in the following age groups:

Under 7’s

8 Years

9 Years

10 Years

11 Years

12 Years

13 Years

14 Years

15 Years +

Age will be taken on the last day of this school year – Sunday August 24th.

All squad swimmers will automatically be added to this swim meet, if anyone from the stroke development program wishes to take part, please see Mrs Gill in the sports and activities office before Friday May 30th.

Results from this meet will help to place swimmers into the correct squad in September 2014.

If you have any questions regarding this swim meet, please do not hesitate to contact me – victoria.g2@shrewsbury.ac.th

Best Wishes

Mrs Gill

Dear All

Further to the message you have received from Mr Holroyd, there will be no swimming tonight. Both morning sessions this week will also be cancelled.

Many Thanks

Mrs Gill