Stage 2 Swimming Journey – COVID
From 3 years – 10 metre distance
Covid disrupted so much, but Kaia kept going from strength to strength, even if her teachers looked a little funny with visors on! Here she practises back stroke and gets really good at floating!
SO EXCITED to be swimming again!
Face in and kicking
Big breathe in
Blowing bubbles and kicking
You look funny Conor!
You look even funnier under the water…
Grabbing the wall safely
Holding on confidently
Pushing off wall on back unaided
Back glide with correct posture
Where do we need to look_ UP
A beautiful back glide
Push to wall
Practicing kicking on wall
Back pillow into grabbing the wall
Back pillow full length
Board on knees, super fast!
Back pillow
Kicking on back unaided
Speedboat to wall and safe exit
Safety jump into the pool, breathing on back, then rolling onto tummy and swimming, breathing on back, then catching the wall
Enjoying water outside in the Wandle
Speedboat with sinker to the wall
Sitting dives into the pool
Introducing board on our knees two at a time
Lots of kicking, board on our knees
Kicking, board on our knees
Kicking on back, no board
Back pillow
‘Backstroke-Kick, Kick, Kick, Pull’ with board
‘Backstroke-Kick, Kick, Kick, Pull’ with board
Back glide from the wall
‘Backstroke-Kick, Kick, Kick, Pull’ NO board!
Pushing off on our backs
Front Speedboat to the steps
Front Speedboat with a sinker
Front Speedboat proper position, face in
Front Speedboat proper position
Pick sinker up
Speedboat with sinker head down
Speedboat with sinker to steps
Showing correct hand position for Speedboat
Pushing off in a Speedboat glide to the wall, need to work on her face in first
Push and glide to the wall
Concentrating on kicking with our feet like this
Proper push off the wall, board on our knees
Lots, and lots, and lots of kicking!
Superman
Face in for 5
Listening so nicely to Rainbow
Amazing floating!
Great back float
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