On Wednesday we went to Waihi beach to go see the lifeguards there. When we got there we had to put our bags underneath the deck. Then we had to go upstairs to where the lifeguards were. The first thing the lifeguards did was tell us about them self. Most of the lifeguards we meet work at a then Waihi diffrent beach. Then they split us into year 7 and 8s. The year 8s stayed inside and the year 7s took a tour. When we were inside we learned about the 10 facts the lifeguards use to keep safe at the beach. One of them is to always have an adult watch over you at the beach. Then we learned about rips and how to spot them and how to get out of them if you get into one. Then we swapped with the year 7s so we took the tour of the Surf Club. They showed us the tower and then the IRBs.
After we had finished inside we had morning tea after beach games. The year 8s did seaweed first then we swapped and did beach flags. For beach flags, we had to lie down and then get up as fast as we can then run and grab the flag. After that, we did a game where we had to save other people with the tube thing. After all that fun we had lunch then we got in the water. First, we had to run around the adults, then dolphin dive, then high five then lay on our back for 10 seconds, then we got to splash them and then we got free time. Overall that day was really fun and I would really want to do it again.
Key things we learned
- To stay out of calm water because that is a rip
- To slip slop slap and rap
- Always have an adult with us when we are in the water
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