Year 7

Swimming and lifesaving

by Beth Alvarez, teacher of Physical & Health Education

Lifesaving, in its broadest context, implies the saving of life through the prevention of accidents, personal survival and rescue of others.

The majority of drowning accidents occur inland in places such as rivers, dams and home swimming pools and of course qualified lifeguards don’t patrol such places; this is why our Year 7s have been learning important lifesaving techniques in and around water as part of the MYP Physical and Health Education course.

Students have been participating in activities, conversations and scenarios based around safe water practices, survival in the water, self-preservation, recognising an emergency, assessment before and during a rescue, priorities for rescue and simulated rescues.

Next week, students will be required to swim a certain distance and tread water continuously while fully clothed. This is not only a physical challenge but it also allows the students to understand how hard or different it might feel if you fell into the water or had to rescue someone in an emergency.

À table (let’s eat)

by Dominique Rowlands, teacher of French

Food is a personal and cultural expression that allows a group of people to display their rituals in different contexts and forms.

This term students learned and talked about breakfast food and celebrated the completion of their inquiry unit with a cooking class.