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04 February 2014

Beach Safety - Rips

Today we learnt all about rips.  A rip can happen at the beach and put swimmers in great danger.  We started off our learning by listing all the ways to recognise a rip and identify the things we should do if we're ever caught in one.  Here is the list we made together as a class:



We also learnt another important rule - don't try to rescue someone caught in a rip, as this can put you in danger too.  Instead, alert the lifeguards or call 111. 

This diagram, from Surf Lifesaving New Zealand helped us to understand rips:


Next we moved on to learning/reviewing how to draw a labelled diagram.  Here is the list we made:


Finally, we created our own labelled diagram of a rip.  Here are two great examples by Madison and Olivia:

9 comments:

  1. I hope this will help us at the beach!

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  2. Wow Room 6, you guys have done a lot of work on keeping safe at the beach!! Hopefully if you get stuck in a tricky situation at the beach you will all be able to keep safe :-)

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    1. Hi Grace, thanks for the comment! Hope you first week of high school has gone well?

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    2. Hi Miss Simpson,
      High School is so much fun, there are opportunities everywhere you step for ALL interests.
      I have made heaps of new friends already in the first few weeks. I am so glad I went to Halcombe for my intermediate years because a lot of the work we are doing now is super easy, because I had great teachers who taught it all to me!! It looks like you guys are still having heaps of fun at school without me :D, have fun Room 6!!

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    3. Great to hear Grace. Keep working hard - no slacking off!

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  3. Wow! That's a great diagram of a rip Olivia, way better than I could ever draw.

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  4. I think these diagrams are great. They tell you how to get out a rip if you get stuck in one.

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  5. It was interesting learning how to recognise and get out of rips.

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  6. I agree Blair. It was interesting.

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