Swimming

We were all delighted to be able to get straight into swimming instruction right from the first day of the school year. We were also fortunate that the weather stayed fine for us so we haven’t missed any swimming days so far. In this block of swimming, we focus on practising the basic swimming strokes eg freestyle and backstroke. We use equipment such as floatboards to work on our leg action and once we have mastered that we go on to work on arm action and breathing. Many children have made tremendous progress and some of our best swimmers will compete in the South Otago champs later in the term. At the end of the year we will have another block of swimming when the focus will be on water safety.