SWIMMING

WRITE INSTRUCTIONS FOR (or advantages of ):

• Safe fitting of lifejackets both on dry land and in the water.

• H.E.L.P. huddle and assistance needed positions.

• River float and survival stokes.

• Dry rescues.

• Different ways to make a whirlpool and what they could be used for.

• Duck dives and how to do a search.

• Removal of trousers in the water and how to make a buoyancy aid from them.

• Rules of a water game.

CREATE:

• A water safety or beach safety quiz, complete with answers.

• Write a story to highlight a water safety or beach incident and then highlight what went wrong and how this could be fixed.

• Why it is important to learn to swim – write arguments for and against.

• Something to explain how swimming in a pool is different from swimming in the sea or in a river.

DRAW:

• Yourself and family swimming between the flags, or at a non-patrolled beach.

• Swimming in a river, showing safe exits and conditions.

• Good and bad practice with beach/boat activities.

• Swimming strokes – draw diagrams and pictures to explain stokes, and pictures of themselves swimming.

READ:

• • School journals on water activities such as Beach Watch(1999) or Sailing Part 2 no. 4, 2003.

AT THE POOL:

• Watch a buddy in the water and watch and record what that person does for peer assessment and reflection.

• Practice your dry land skills e.g. walking up and down the poolside practicing freestyle arm action, sitting on the ground or bench seats practicing kicking.