- Cairo
- Theodore & Oscar
- Archie
- Cassie
Puddle Ducks Pyjama Week:
3 times a year Puddle Duck hold Pyjama weeks. These are dedicated weeks where children (and carers!) wear their pyjamas to their lessons. Throughout these lessons our focus is on water safety and teaching our children (and parents too!) the importance of being safe around water, what to do if the worst was to happen.
During these weeks we encourage parents and children to wear their pyjamas. This gives swimmers an opportunity to experience the feeling of being in the water with their clothes on. We do not positively encourage our swimmers to jump into the water whenever they can, fully clothed – quite the opposite – it is a controlled and safe environment to provide them with the opportunity to see how it would feel to be in the water, following an accidental submersion/fall into water, showing them that they can still swim and use their skills.
Why do we teach water safety skills?
We teach skills through a variety of activities to ensure children know what to do if they find themselves in difficulty in the water. In teaching these skills to children from as young an age as possible, they become second nature, and if the worst was to happen and they were to fall into water, they would instinctively know what to do.
