To be safe we need to remember:
- Always have an adult watching you when you are swimming
- Never swim in a rip
- If there are life guards, always swim between the flags
- Be sensible when swimming, check for currents, rocks and rips
- Slip, slop, slap and wrap
Tracy and Nicole took a session in the pool and they held two boards on top of each other and we swam through the waves they made with the boards. We then got to put two boards together and stood on them. We got into groups and practiced rescuing one another with life guard flotation belts.
That was in the morning and in the afternoon we had a scientist called Richard De Hamel talking to us about how the Māori survived, made fish hooks and how they made carvings. He told us lots of stories about how he proved that the Maori fish hooks were an effective, clever design. It was a funny story because he was a bit naughty - he fished in the aquarium. He did release the fish once he proved that the hooks worked.
By Ashlee
