Swimming Lessons 

Pupils from 3rd class to 6th class have just completed Swimming Lesson for this year, for 8 week the children have been swimming and the senior children did life saving lessons also.

Life-saving Group

For the last couple of weeks our class were doing lifesaving in the Coral Leisure Center in Arklow. It wasn’t easy at first as the strokes were very unusual such as side-stroke and inverted breast stroke. I soon got used to them though. 

It was so much fun throwing the rope out to your partner and pulling them in. It is especially fun when you`re the one being pulled in. But when you are being pulled in by hand with no rope it isn`t so fun because sometimes people accidentally held your head underwater. 

Our coaches name was Nicola. We left school at 12:30 and were back for about 2:30. We did our swimming lessons for 8 weeks and I learned so much. (I think the hardest thing was having no goggles)

By Robert 

Life Saving Group

On the 11^th of January our school started swimming.

We left school at 12:20. We travelled in the bus. We got to Coral Leisure and then we changed into our swim gear. The Senior classes and other strong swimmers did life saving. There were four groups. We did life saving with Nicola. The lesson lasted for 45 minutes. There were parents there to help and Miss Woodroofe and Mrs.Binions were there organising it all. 
We had lessons for 8 weeks and I feel I learnt a lot and have become a much more confident swimmer.

By Anna