{"id":9251,"date":"2022-02-18T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T07:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/?p=9251"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T07:47:15","slug":"emupoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/2024\/emupoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming Lessons at Emu Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9232 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swim-lessons-2022-02-15-039-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>This week our Year 4, 5 and 6 students have been enjoying their annual <strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">swimming lessons<\/span><\/strong> in the sand, salt and sunshine at<strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\"> Emu Point<\/span><\/strong>. So, how did they go? Mrs Kowald&#8217;s students have reflected on the week and share with you their thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Cairo &#8211;<\/span><\/strong> I learnt how to swim 10m freestyle and now I&#8217;m stage 4. I had a good time at Emu Point, it was hard but I did it!<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #233e93;\"><strong>Brax &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> I had to learn freestyle, backstroke, survival backstroke and breaststroke.\u00a0 I saw a lot of fish and I even jumped off the jetty, I had a great time! On the last day Hayden showed us a blue ringed octopus, a wolf spider and a blue bottle jellyfish.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Mia &#8211;<\/span><\/strong> I really improved my survival backstroke, it was hard at first but I loved it and now it is one of my favourite swimming techniques. Tonia was the best teacher I ever had. My favourite thing after swimming was Mrs Kowald&#8217;s warm yummy milos.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #233e93;\"><strong>Brooke &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> I liked the bus because it was warm. It was fun to look at houses on the way to swimming and I found two mansions I really want to buy one day.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Lewis &#8211;<\/span><\/strong> I was nervous, I had never swam at the beach so it as hard. When I got to my station I saw I was with some higher stages, 6 to 9 and my teacher was Lily. She was great but the water was really cold. On the last day I swam 50m of freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and survival backstroke. It was ok because we got to do dives and save people.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Edyn &#8211;<\/span><\/strong> I did 25m freestyle and 15m of backstroke. We had so much fun at the beach and I saw ten fish and little tiny crabs.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Imogen &#8211;<\/span><\/strong> On the second day we found a fish in the water near the jetty with my swimming instructor Ella.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What a great experience for our students.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/portfolio_page\/emupoint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ee373d;\">Click here to see some of the swimming action.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week our Year 4, 5 and 6 students 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