First Enviro Day of 2020

This week we had our first Enviro day for 2020. We combined with Kauri and Totara class and revisited the Enviro sites around our school. We were looking at each habitat and noticing what made them unique and how we needed to care for them in the future. We thought about what was threatening each habitat. We could see a lot of damage which had been done by the drought and by weeds in each area. We worked with Rob to brainstorm ideas on how we would like these habitats to look in the future and what we needed to do as Kaitiaki to take care of them.
We have a lot of ideas for our Enviro days this year, now we just need to find some helpers....🙋

Water Safety 2

We had another great Water Safety session with Averil. We practiced saving people in rough conditions. We made the pool rough by splashing and pushing the water with our body boards.

We had to save our friends using the body board. We made sure it was attached to our wrists and threw the body board to them and told them to hold on.

Once they were on we could tow them back to shore. A good way to swim back is to hug the board and swim on your back.

We also learnt some different ways to float:

Lie on your back to save energy.

Mushroom hold is useful in the surf, if you get pushed around in the waves.

Swimming with LeeAnn

With Lee Ann we have to practicing drills for Breast stroke and Free Style.
To work on our free style we started with Superman drill. It is important because it gives works on your upper body strength.

Catch up arms is a drill to focus on your arms and learning to pull the water through.

Breaststroke
We did One arm, double kick so we would focus on our arm movement and trying to be stream lined. We needed to time our arms and legs with our breath.

WATER SAFETY

We have started a Water Safety programme with Averil. This week we learnt about different ways to rescue people who are in danger in the water.



The first rescue we learnt was the TALKING RESCUE
Things to remember:
- Keep your self safe by staying on land, don't jump in.
- Tell your friend that you are going to throw them something, like a board.
-Tell them to grab on and kick back to shore.
- Help them on to the shore.

The second rescue we learnt was the NOODLE RESCUE
Things to remember:
- Kneel down (so you don't get pulled in)
-Pass the noodle to the person in the water.
-Tell the person to hold on and roll over onto their back (so water doesn't go in their mouth)
-Pull them back to shore and help them out of the water.

The third rescue was the ROPE RESCUE

Things to remember:
-Stay low on the ground
-Wind the rope up so you can throw it out easily.
-Make sure you hold on tight, so you don't drop the rope.
-Tell the person to lie on their back as you pull them in.

We also learnt about LIFE JACKETS
- You must have a perfect fitting jacket.
- Some life jackets have a head rest, that helps you to float on your back.
- Life Jackets have reflectors so that if you are in trouble at night people can see you.
- Life jackets are yellow, orange and red so that you stand out.
-Life jackets could save your life one day.

We learnt to huddle in the water so that we can keep warm. You will also stick together and it is easier to be found. It is important to keep the weakest or smallest people in the middle of the huddle.
We got into a line, this is helpful as it is easier to stay together if you are swimming to safety.