sailing with Year 10 and 11

 

Two of the pupils went off in the sail boat working together to steer the boat and sail in a variety of directions while the small group enjoyed talking about the sights they could see on the speedboat as well as shouting encouragement to their peers such as "pull the sail into your body" and "you need to duck your heads or the sail will hit you". Throughout the lesson the pupils in the sail boat showed an interest in directing themselves with some staff support to different coloured balls which were placed all around the lake. Halfway the pupils said "can we do a cap side". The teacher relayed instructions of stand up in the middle to unbalance the boat and then as the pupils were in the water, the teacher continued to advise them to work together to swim to the back of the boat and push the centre board up to turn the boat upwards, and then to swim to the end of the boat as they helped one another by one pupil pushing behind and the other using their arms to pull themselves up to the middle of the boat. We asked for the pupils feedback on what they thought of going into the water and one pupil said "it was fun but very cold".

After we went back to the shore to eat our lunch and then as a group the teacher took them back out in the speedboat to go as fast they could all around the lake. To finish off the lesson two of the pupils had a go and jumping into the lake.