In the beginning of term 3 our teacher enrolled us for swimming for two weeks at CLM The Bays at Morrin road. We were supposed to go on the 18th of July (The 2nd day of term 3) but then it was moved to August 1.
On the first day of swimming we needed goggles, swimming togs, a towel and a jumper or hoodie. On the first day of swimming we had to get into three groups, the new learners, the intermediate and the confident swimmers. The beginner group was learning how to swim on their back, the intermediate was learning how to backstroke and the advanced was doing freestyle, survival strokes, breaststroke and backstroke.
For our warm ups we used a board and kicked all the way to the other end. Our other warm up was holding the board with one hand and looking up at the ceiling. My favourite part of the lesson was diving. For diving i did a kneeling dive and a standing dive. A kneeling dive is kneeling with your hands together behind your ear and kicking off with your feet.
The next 4 days we did the same things and worked on improving each skill. My favourite skills were breaststroke and freestyle. I struggle with backstroke because I can’t really see what’s happening in front of me.
On the 2nd to last day the coaches brought in the life jackets and the boat and a few other life guarding supplies. When we got there the coaches split us into 2 groups, the ones who go on the boat and the ones who work with the life guarding. I was taken into the boat group with Coach Izzy.
Miss Izzy told us to put our life jackets on and stand in a line and wait. Once they were ready we carefully got into the boat and Coach Izzy and Coach Paris pushed us. Once the lesson was done we got onto the bus and went back to school.