Put my face in
£0.60 – £1.75Price range: £0.60 through £1.75
Swimmer is confident in placing their face into the water. Your choice if swimmer is in motion or stationary.
BE3
Description
This is one the largest of all the mile stones for the swimmer in the aquatic environment, and also one of the hardest ones a teacher has to tackle on a regular basis.
For a swimmer to be able to take a breath and place their face confidently into the water, allowing it to remain there for a few seconds, is a key confidence skill to achieve and as such should be celebrated.
The ability to do this forms a good base in the development of their strokes, its is an essential base line to so many successive key skills can progress from eg, blowing bubbles into the water.
Additional needs
A key goal for all swimmers is being confident in putting their face into the water.
For swimmers with a physical disability, this is key to supporting their body position and will allow them to be more relaxed in the water.
Due to the increased sensations of the water on their face, swimmers with learning disabilities can be awarded this award for their initial face immersion or for when the swimmer is able to place their face in the water for 5 seconds or an extended period of time.
Lesson ideas
There are so many games to play that encourage faces to look underwater. Games to include sunken treasure that swimmers must search for whilst they swim across. When they get to the other side they can tell you the colour of 1 object and then when they return they have to spot a different coloured object.
Water mirror toys are also a great way of the swimmer looking underwater with a purpose. You can also direct their gaze by simply moving the mirror into different areas.
Swimmers can be encouraged to look/point at different things in a game from the ceiling to the pool floor, their toes, other peoples toes, the patterns on the pool floor.
A good way to start the lesson is by getting the swimmers to wash/wet their face whilst at the wall or using a watering can to wet hats. Eliminating the initial getting their face wet whilst in motion.
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