So I'm currently training to be a swimming instructor. PArt of that requires me to do some work experience with a pool. There is NO guarantee that I will be kept on at the end of the training. I am currently training in two classes, known here as Level 4 and Level 3 (they all have cute little sea creature names that I won't mention here) and I'm also meant to be training in Level 1 classes. Here's a collection of tidbits from the past few weeks:
He's not THAT scary!
One of my male "coworkers" takes Level 3 classes among others. He is the ONLY male I've seen who takes classes at that level. (most of the male instructors take the classes from Levels 5 and up) He's good with them though, which makes me wonder why he's not studying to be a primary school teacher (he's doing secondary). For some reason however, he seems to get the kids who don't want to go into his lesson. Case in point, last week we had a girl who refused to get into the water and chickened out behind her mother. We eventually got her into the pool but she refused to do any freestyle/backstroke. She did play games at the end though. (Turned out that part of the problem was that on Thursdays there are normally 2 Level 3 classes going on, but because of a lack of numbers in one of them, they decided to cut that class and combine the two. She'd had the other instructor (female))
Ding ding ding!
so the pool makes a little bit of a deal out of the kids who move up a level. Whenever they do, at the end of the lesson they go and see the deck supervisor, who rings a bell and announces "OK, <person> is going to move up to <class>" before starting in the new class next week. It's quite adorable actually.
It's a Star Float, not a sit-down!
So as part of my training, I'm having to take part of a class and then take a complete class. I've been taking the Level 4 kids. So far so good. At the end of this lesson (and in the Level 3 group) the kids do their float sequences, which is a star float on your stomach (star float is where you're just floating and you spread arms and legs out), star float on your back and a mushroom float (where you're in a tucked position and your back floats up on the surface) in that order. Some of the boys tend to sink. So when it comes to do a star float, their head is up above the water, their arms are above the water, but their chest and butt are sinking about halfway into the water
you're HOW tall?!
The age group of the kids I get is between 5-8. I wound up getting two kids the other night who either had a MASSIVE growth spurt, came into the program late, or have special needs of some description. I would say that the oldest was around 10, maybe 12 at the most, while the younger brother was around 8 or 9. We run a teenage swim program, so I have no idea why they're still in the after-school program. The younger brother made it about 20 minutes through the lesson before having to sit out (kid had hit his head earlier, after a quick cuddle from mum he was fine though), while his brother managed to make it through the entire lesson albeit enthusiastically. (he has this tendency to do two things: hold his breath while doing backstroke, and smacking the water when doing both strokes)
And that's all I have for now.
He's not THAT scary!
One of my male "coworkers" takes Level 3 classes among others. He is the ONLY male I've seen who takes classes at that level. (most of the male instructors take the classes from Levels 5 and up) He's good with them though, which makes me wonder why he's not studying to be a primary school teacher (he's doing secondary). For some reason however, he seems to get the kids who don't want to go into his lesson. Case in point, last week we had a girl who refused to get into the water and chickened out behind her mother. We eventually got her into the pool but she refused to do any freestyle/backstroke. She did play games at the end though. (Turned out that part of the problem was that on Thursdays there are normally 2 Level 3 classes going on, but because of a lack of numbers in one of them, they decided to cut that class and combine the two. She'd had the other instructor (female))
Ding ding ding!
so the pool makes a little bit of a deal out of the kids who move up a level. Whenever they do, at the end of the lesson they go and see the deck supervisor, who rings a bell and announces "OK, <person> is going to move up to <class>" before starting in the new class next week. It's quite adorable actually.
It's a Star Float, not a sit-down!
So as part of my training, I'm having to take part of a class and then take a complete class. I've been taking the Level 4 kids. So far so good. At the end of this lesson (and in the Level 3 group) the kids do their float sequences, which is a star float on your stomach (star float is where you're just floating and you spread arms and legs out), star float on your back and a mushroom float (where you're in a tucked position and your back floats up on the surface) in that order. Some of the boys tend to sink. So when it comes to do a star float, their head is up above the water, their arms are above the water, but their chest and butt are sinking about halfway into the water
you're HOW tall?!
The age group of the kids I get is between 5-8. I wound up getting two kids the other night who either had a MASSIVE growth spurt, came into the program late, or have special needs of some description. I would say that the oldest was around 10, maybe 12 at the most, while the younger brother was around 8 or 9. We run a teenage swim program, so I have no idea why they're still in the after-school program. The younger brother made it about 20 minutes through the lesson before having to sit out (kid had hit his head earlier, after a quick cuddle from mum he was fine though), while his brother managed to make it through the entire lesson albeit enthusiastically. (he has this tendency to do two things: hold his breath while doing backstroke, and smacking the water when doing both strokes)
And that's all I have for now.
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