Dry Land - Swimming Safety - Water Safe NZ

Today Corrina from Water Safe NZ visited us to help us learn about how to stay safe in and around the water.  

We learned about the help position.  This is where cross our arms and hold the top of our life jacket so that we can keep ourselves warm.

We learned about how to signal for help.  We talked about how we need to do this when people are nearby and we can get their attention.

We learned about how to huddle up to stay together.  We would do this so we could see who is in the group, we can talk to each other, we can look after each other, and keep each other calm.  To do this our arms should be underneath each other so we don't end up hitting each other in the face.  It's also safer to keep us together.

We learned about wearing life jackets - They are nice and bright so that people can see us. They need to fit us nice and snug.

We tried on a few.  Some were Adult size and WAY too big - They slipped over Jakharn's head when we looked to see how this would work.  This showed us the importance to make sure they are the right size.

     

Swim Safe Movies from week 5 & 6

Here are the swim safe movies from weeks 5 & 6.  Now we have shared them at assembly you will be able to share them with all your friends and talk about all the important learning that can be done around swimming safely both in pools, oceans and rivers.

We are incredibly lucky as New Zealanders that we have so many opportunities to enjoy the water, but it is also very important that we help all our children enjoy it safely.

Enjoy, remember to comment and ask questions to help our children further their own learning by answering your questions.

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Part 3

Swim Safe Week 6 Term 1 2019

Again we had swim safe this week.  This week we were continuing to practice and learn about keeping safe if we fall into water.  Tracey has been very impress at how each week we have improved with what we have been doing with her.  

This week we did lots of practice around tilting our heads and floating on our backs.  This is till quite challenging for many of us so we will keep working on this both in our classroom swimming sessions as well as our next swim safe lesson next week.  

So to re-cap.  Here are the things we have been learning.

1. How to break the water with our hounds 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 to a position where we can kick on our fronts to safety.
4. How to go from a kicking on our front position to a floating on our back position.

We have made our learning into rewindable movies but will share them with you all at assembly next week (and it will also pop up on our blog this day for you all to enjoy at home as well).

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.