Water Safety Week at the British International School in Saigon has “worked really well”.

23 March was originally scheduled to be the date for the 3rd Annual Swing to Swim Charity Golf Day at the amazing Montgomerie Links. Unfortunately, an unavoidable scheduling conflict at Montgomerie Links has meant that the day has been postponed to a date later in the year (still to be confirmed).

But, the good news is that the British International School in Saigon has been able to pick up on an idea of the Vietnam Swans; to schedule an unofficial Water Safety Week.

Below, Alison Jones, the TX Primary Physical Education Coordinator, explains what has been happening at the British International School during its Water Safety Week.

The British International School TX Campus has taken part in a two-week Water Safety Campaign to highlight the need to be safe both in and around water. Some of the activities the children took part in were:

• A Sponsored Swim. All reception – Year 2 children swam fantastically well during their sponsored swim, trying to earn as many pennies as they could for our TX community charities, whilst bringing attention to water safety. Money is still being collected and will be split equally between the five BIS charities.
• TA swimming lessons. Lots of the TX teaching assistants opted to take part in booster swim sessions with Mr. Chau the TX swim coach over the duration of a week. The teaching assistants often help out in swimming lessons and so these booster sessions will definitely improve their own water confidence skills.
  

  Some of the students to have benefitted from the swimming initiative.

• TX Community Swim. We had a wonderful session with 26 children from Binh Trieu. The children developed their  water confidence, buoyancy and basic swimming techniques. The children were so excited about swimming in the TX pool and they all looked exhausted when we said goodbye.
• TX swim gala reminder: Thursday 28th March. Years 1+2 between 8:15am – 9:45am; Years 3 – 6 between 10:00am – 12:00pm.
• Survival swimming sessions. To highlight our Water Safety Week at TX, all the children between Years 3 – 6 at TX took part in a series of structured personal survival lessons during their swimming lessons in the last week of term.

Thanks for giving us the idea. It has all worked really well.

The Swannies say great work to BIS for helping the swimmers!