This is an article about the exciting time the Y5-8 students had at Jellie Park.

This year, all students participated in 2 weeks of water safety at Jellie Park. 

On the first day, we all did our ‘best freestyle’ and then the swim safe instructors placed us into groups based on our ability. There were 5 lanes/groups in the main pool and 1 in the deeper 2-metre pool. On days 1 - 6, we spent our time practising doing lengths in the pool and getting advice from our instructors. 

On the last 3 days, we had a go learning about water safety around boats and life jackets. We learnt about the equipment that you should have on a boat and what to do if you needed help and there wasn’t land nearby that people could see you from. 

Early in the second-week rooms 16/17/some of room 18 had an experience no one else had, the fire alarms went off in the middle of our lesson, we lost half of our lesson but it was a good learning experience! 

By Petra