Amazing Room 5 Swimming

Our first blog post written as a class!! 

Last week and this week we have been swimming along with the rest of NBC at QE2. We go every day for 2 weeks and we go just after morning tea each day. The girls get changed in the hall and the boys get changed in the toilets. 

We walk in a line behind Saffron the line leader, then we walk up the stairs into the bus to greet the bus driver lastly sit down quietly on your seat next to a sensible person. 

At swimming, we are learning to swim safely, we are learning to: 

- Sculling on our backs 

- Floating mushrooms

- Rocket ships with our hands in the air behind our ears 

- Jump safely into the deep pool. 

- Learning how to swim on deep surfaces 

- Rolling logs 

- Back and arm circles to tread the water to stay afloat 

- Dolphin dives 

- Safety messages 

- Strokes such as backstroke 

We learn these things in 3 groups with different instructors. We also now know that the deep pool was first at 1.6m and now it is 2m.