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For two weeks, students enjoyed daily swimming lessons. Split over two sessions every day, two groups of 25 students were put their paces in the water in readiness for this year’s summer. More fun than hard work, the improvement in the students skills’ was, according to Gloucester Shire Council’s Recreation manager Tad Parish, ‘out of sight’.
FIFTY students from Gloucester Public School will be a little bit safer this summer after completing this year’s intensive swimming program at Gloucester’s Olympic pool complex.
Targeting children from Year 2 up to Year 6 who have limited access to and skill in pools, the program encourages both safety, technique and confidence in the water. Accredited swimming coaches Danielle Ryll, Kate Shanley and Sue Kingston worked hard with the students who turned up every day for two weeks to improve their swimming in preparation for summer. Program coordinators Mark Howland and Caroline Moore were rewarded to see confident students floating ‘or even doing proper freestyle’.
Stratford, Barrington and St Joseph’s primary schools also have intensive swimming programs underway at the pool in the lead-up to the holidays.