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...
