Swimming week 1 and 2

LI: to learn safety in water. 

Last week and this week the Y8 group went to the YMCA pools in Panmure to learn safety skills in the water. We were split into 2 groups depending on how confident we are in water. To get into the pool safely we put both hands on one side and entered. 

The skills we learnt were

• Floating (facing up) - make a star fish facing up.
• Floating (facing down) - make a star fish facing up. 
• Dolphin Diving - dive down, touch the floor of the pool with both hands and jump up. 
• Streamline - put our arms behind our ears and kick (with and without swimming board). 

water safety

LI: to learn water safety

today was your last day of water safety lessons and we were wearing life jackets and it was harder to swim in them because they kept making us float up. the first thing we did when we got into the water was we made a train we had to hold on to the life jacket from another person and we had to kick in the water to move . and then after that we learnt the H.E.L.P position it was were we pulled our knees to our chest and we warped our arms around our legs and stay floating with the life jacket on. We got out of the pools and we stood on the wall of the pools and do a pencil dive. When you dive into the water we had to use our arms to hold onto the life jacket and use the other arm to hold our head and then we jump while we jump we have to bend out legs when we go in.

Water safety

Today for kiwi sport we had a warm up and we did streamlines back and forth to the platforms and then we had to to do the same thing but on our backs we had to float and use our arms to drag yourself across the pool and we did the same thing over and over again.

Water Safety

LI: To learn to stay safe in the water.

first when we got into the water we had a warm up exerciser we did stream lines from one platform and to the other platform and then we had to swim 30 meters to the wall with out standing up and we had to do the same thing but have to go under the water. After that we had to try and push of and so that when we swim it will be easier to swim back to the plat form and we did the same thing by pushing but on our backs. 

Swimming

Your warm up activity was stream lines we had to do stream lines back and forth from the pool. we then learnt about how to signal people when we are drowning you have to put a fist up and shout for help and then we learnt how to rescue people when the are drowning. we had to try and pull up the person with a pool noodle when they are drowning.

We then had sticks that sink to the bottom of the pool and then we had to try and get all of them by going all the way under the pool to touch the pool floor we then did duck diving it is where we have to grab all of the toys that sunk to the bottom and not touch the floor so you had to grab them and come back up with out touching the floor.

Water saftey

Today i was put into  James group for water safety lessons. First we started doing
streamlines.To learn how to do streamlines your hands had to be together and 
kick your way to the platform that was under the water. Next we did arm circles
to do it we had to make our arms go around like circles and while doing that swing your
arms up and down, kick your way to the platform.Then we did bounce and
breathe.We went to the deep side.When we go in we have to go in and then
bounce back out,keeping doing that until you get to the platform.

Kiwi Sport

L.I To learn water safety skills.

Our first lesson for water safety was where we all answered what does someone look like when the are in danger and in the water we then floated on our backs and then put one fist up then shout out help. We then did  dolphin dives it is where you swim to the top of the pool then go down to the bottom and swim all the way to the end.

After that we did somersaults in the pool we had to pull our knees to our body then roll to the end of the pool. we then had to float on our stomach and we had to put our legs in front of us and then use our hands to push our legs back.