Lightning Ridge Central School held its annual swimming carnival on Thursday and Friday, producing some very good results and swimmers.
Bodell house won the two-day carnival for both the primary and secondary divisions, on 750 points all up.
They were followed by Reece with 708 points, and Bruce on 556.
Primary sports co-ordinator Kylie Pickett said the day (Thursday) went smoothly, with most of the students participating in the set events.
"We were really happy with the number of kids who decided to give it a go in the pool."
"Only 11 kids stayed behind at school," she said.
Ms Pickett said all three houses showed a high level of enthusiasm which was good to see.
She said the weather conditions were great on the day.
"It was very hot, humid and sticky, but the pool cooled most kids down."
Ms Pickett said all the events ran to schedule and many parents had helped out with time keeping.
"The parents helping out made everything a lot easier for us."
Ms Pickett said the primary carnival on Thursday saw all the standard stroke events being held for each age group, as well as some novelty events in between races.
"The wishing well race, sharks event, and coin race were among some of the other fun things we did," she said.
The primary senior champion for the boys was Steven Kelly, with Katherine Small taking out this title for the girls. The 11 year-old boy champion was Peter Anderson, while Karly Kennedy did it for the girls, and Patrick Small was awarded primary boy junior champion, with kelsey Strasek making her mark for the junior girls.
On the Friday secondary students had their carnival day, and sports coordinator, Jon Cobham, said it was a good day, where all the students and staff enjoyed themselves and were in good spirits.
He said on the Friday the weather was perfect too.
"It was a hot, sunny day, which is great for swimming."
However, Mr Cobham said while the turnout was a bit down for the secondary division, he is hopeful, the numbers will pick up again next year.
"All the students that did attend though were eager to participate and showed great enthusiasm in cheering," he said.
Mr Cobham said he also wanted to thank the many parents that had helped out on the Friday.
"We had the standard events, it's a set program that had to be run."
"And of course we chucked in a couple of novelty events too," he said.
"The first one was a house relay, where each lap was a point for the house being represented, and we also had another race where teams of eight did four laps in a tube tyre."
Mr Cobham said a teacher versus student relay was also held.
"The teachers had a resounding win against the students," he said.
Mr Cobham said the students were very creative and made up their own house cries on the day, as well as those of their rivalry.
The secondary open boy winner was Adrian Bamford, with Terri-Leigh Vermeer achieving this title for the girls.
The 14/15 year boy champion went to Daniel Bolton, while Kristina Kelly was the girl champion, and Jack Scoles was awarded as the 12/13 year boy champion, with Elizabeth Small doing it for the girls.
Mr Cobham said a group of the students will be travelling to Tamworth for the regional trials on Friday next week, and have currently been doing their own training.
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