Dear the many readers of the Year 2 Blog at Pennington Infant School.
Wooo! It is finally the turn of the Year 2 children to go swimming in the afternoon's on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for the next 2 weeks.
Both reception and Year 1 have had a fantastic time and our budding swimmers in Year 2 are desperate to make a splash!
Please bring your swimming kit with your child to school on Monday 13th May 2013.
Kind Regards,
Mr Hustler and
The Year 2 Team.
P.S. Blog update is coming...
ASA chief executive David Sparkes said: 'Swimming is one of the easiest, safest forms of exercise for children of all abilities and school swimming the single most effective way of teaching children how to be safe in and around water.
ReplyDelete'Yet it is one of the few areas of a child's statutory education that is all too often left unmeasured, unchecked or, for 1.1 million children, unfulfilled.' More than 3,500 primary schools and 1,000 parents were surveyed for the poll, which was carried out with breakfast cereal firm Kellogg's
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329339/Rising-number-primary-pupils-swim-length-40-11-year-olds-cover-25metres-unaided.html#ixzz2U9CSmESk
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Aren't we lucky that we are at one of the only schools in the area that takes their pupils swimming!! Interesting report, once again, Pennington Infant School ROCKS!
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