Kiwi Sport | Water Safety | Swimming

LI: to adapt to water safety

The year 5's from LS1 took a bus to the YMCA public swimming centre to learn water safety. Each group was introduced to new swimming instructors. My new group instructor is Keryn. She is James's replacement for this week. 

We practised our streamline and backstroke. There are a few main parts to do a streamline and backstroke. They are:

Streamline

• One hand over the other.
• Arms behind your ears.
• Don't take your arms apart unless getting air.
• Be sure you don't tilt and keep your head straight. (Try not to wobble it to much).

How to breathe (Streamline)

• Take your arms apart and tilt your head to the side.
• Use circled arm streamline when breathing.
• Put arms back into Streamline after breather.

Backstroke

• Float on your back.
• Move your arms in circles one at a time.
• Make sure your thumb(s) are/is the first to come up out of the water.
• Rotate your hand so your pinky/smallest finger is the first to go back into the water.
• Be sure you don't tilt and keep your head straight. (Try not to wobble it to much).

Water Safety

It's important to know the ways of water safety. This is because in situations with deep water, you will be able to with-stand this situation and prevent danger to yourself or another. Take the ocean as an example. If you know how to swim, you could stop yourself from drowning in deep parts of the ocean. If you hadn't learnt how to swim, this could have caused a very problematic and dangerous situation. We learn water safety because it will have an impact on future situations.