Swim Safe Week 5 Term 1 2019

This week in Swim Safe we have been practicing what to do if we find ourselves falling into deep water.

Here are a few things we were learning.

1. How to break the water with our hands to protect ourselves
2. How to go into a mushroom float (so we pop up to the surface safely and don't panic)
3. How to move from this mushroom float position to a position where we can kick to safety.  (this is the one most of us are working on lots as we tend to want to put our feet down still).

You can help us at home if you have a pool by getting us to practice these 3 things and encouraging us not to put our feet down when we move into the kicking position.

• Our next step is to be able to roll onto our backs by tilting our head towards the closest edge (so we move in the right direction).

Floating on our backs is also very important for us to keep practicing as this enables us to catch our breath and remain safe while in the water.

Here are some photos from this week.  We have a team of children making our video footage into another movie, so watch this space.