Aquatics

**AQUATICS** In order to better meet the needs of students, swimming will be taught as a unit. Students will swim twice a week for 5-6 weeks. We believe that by offering swimming as a unit, it will provide better continuity for the students and allow them to grow and become better swimmers. We will be using the Austswim program from Western Australia to help support our swimmers. This program is based on individual need. The goals of the swim program are to encourage the development of the student’s confidence in the water, increase students awareness and understanding of the need for water safety and to encourage the development of swimming strokes and water skills. Students will receive a swim report with the skills they have mastered at the end of term.

Pak Erif Fathoni and myself, along with the lifeguards are all on deck to keep your children safe at the pool.

On days that your child has swimming, please remember to pack:
 * swim costume (no bikinis please)
 * goggles
 * towel
 * sun screen

If it is raining (and it will rain) swimming will be cancelled and a P.E. class will be in it's place. Please be prepared for this by wearing proper sport trainers.

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at through the school office.

Cheryl Fullerton

Each student will have their swim skills evaluated and this document will come home in their report card. I have included it here, please click on the link to view the document.

Thank you again for your support of the PE program at PRIS.

Help me, help me! In swimming, besides building water confidence and improving the four basic swim strokes, students have been learning about being safe in the water. If you are wondering too, ask your children how to...
 * Signal for Help
 * Perform a reaching rescue
 * Perform an assisted rescue
 * Huddle for HELP (Heat, Escaping Lessening Position)

//__ ECC Swim Activities __// The ECC students will spend time in the pool building skills in water confidence. They will play games related to blowing bubbles, kicking, balancing and submerging. They will also learn the pool rules and ways to be safe in and around the water. __// Kindergarten-Grade 8 //__ Students in all grades will develop swim skills to be safe in and around water. They will learn to improve buoyancy, water confidence, and water safety. Students will learn all of the competition swim strokes as well as survival swim strokes.