Malo e lelei readers,

On Friday we had our last lesson for swimming. I was so excited because the first thing we did was diving in on the deep end. Only nine of us came that were in my group. So we split in to one group of four and one group of five. In was in the group of four and we were the first to jump! We have to stand up straight and put our arms around us and jump in by taking one step. After we dived in we had to get back up and float. Once we were close enough to the other team they would reach out pool noodles for us to grab onto and they would pull us in. The team that was not jumping yet was practicing saving us. When they had saved us we swapped and they  jumped. I loved jumping and all the big splashes when we dive. After that we went to the adults pool and practiced diving there. When we dived in we had to do the same thing but we had to bend our knees because this pool wasn’t as deep so we wouldn’t hurt our legs. Once we dived in we had to swim back up and float through two hoops.

I had a lot of fun on the last swimming lesson.

Have you ever tried diving before?

I hope you enjoyed this post.

Bye bye readers, see you soon.

Talofa Lava everyone,

This week Tuesday, room 9 and room 10 girls went to Tupu Maia. If you don’t know what Tupu Maia is, it is where you play sports and do activities, and play games, it was so fun. We played touch, riper, passes and other activities. We learned how to play rugby and the rules of the game as well. I learned how to pass and catch which was fun. We had three adult girls that were there for us, and they are the one’s that doe’s the games and activity as well. Most of us had a lot of energy to run and to score. We did our chant for our game. Our values are teamwork, success and leadership.

Instructions for rugby

When you are in the game of rugby and you have the ball, you cannot pass forward, you always have to throw it back to your teammates, the other team has to be outside.

Sorry the wrong way camera faced sideways

Malo e lelei readers,

On Tuesday we had Tupu Maia again! We were learning about contact, defence and attack this session.  We played a game where we had to try and tag each others knees. We had to play the game in pairs and you had to bend your knees while you and your buddy had to try and tag the others knee. It was a fun game. Then all the pairs came together and we split into groups of four. each group had to line up behind a cone. The person in the front of each line had to go into the square lined by cones and try to tag the others knee. The team with the last person standing wins. The last game we played needed five people in each group. We had to make a square with four cones and each person had to line up at one. The fifth person had to be in the middle with a tackle pad. The person in the middle had to try and escape from the middle without the people on the cones stopping them. The people on the cones had to move to each side. If the person in the middle came towards you, you and the person closest to the middle person had to block the pad person from escaping.

My teacher took pictures and videos of Tupu Maia.

Here is a video of this weeks session:

(In this video is another game we played)

Can you try these games with your friends of family?

I hope you enjoyed this video.

Bye bye readers, see you soon.

viewers, as you can tell from the title, this blog will be about my experience in my last week of swimming lessons. So come with me on this journey packed with lots of fun in the water!

First and foremost, we got changed in our swimming togs, we were told to wear active-wear t-shirts, for survival, rash tops also included somehow. So as soon as I got changed, we waited patiently for the bus to arrive. Once it did, the other class went first, and we had to wait for another 5- 10 minutes. And when the bus finally appeared, we scattered like a pack of wolves inside, filling up the rows swiftly. Then once everyone was in, the bus made its way to Massey Pools. When we arrived, we went out with naked feet, eventually burning them in the hot concrete from the sun. Then we reached the entrance of the pools where the smell of chlorine entered our noses and came out of our ears.

Then we went to the other side where the other class were sitting, and we sat down on the wet floor, which made our botts quite uncomfortable. Then when the instructors came, we followed them into the next session. Our session was mainly focused on saving peoples lives and what to do if you were surrounded by a body of water with no help whatsoever. The skills I learnt In this session, were feet first when floating, both hands on top of another person’s hand, and sculling in the water feet first. I didn’t have a good time sculling in the water because I kept sculling downwards which caused me to go underwater, also due to my laughing which I couldn’t stop either.

Our next session was the deep water session where we had to learn about what to do if you were stuck in a body of deep water and there was no surrounding near you, from past knowledge we had to go down float and scull back to the shore. Now we had to do this by jumping down the platform above us. Most of us were really excited because it was the first time in all 5 weeks of swimming jumping off the platform. So we climbed up the ladder, and lined up to jump in pairs of two. When it came to me and my partners turn we decided that we wanted to jump high, and so we did. My feet touched the ground softly and subtly, and rose up gently floating like a vessel in the ocean. Then I sculled over to the shore and finally felt so good after doing that extreme jump.

Kia ora, my name is Price and in this blog I will be revisioning about what happened at the start, during and at the end of tamatoa ( Sports ).