> # Wet sports at school

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> Posted by Chris (and Jamie) on September 14, 2016 at 08:34:46

> We had our first wet football match at school yesterday. At lunchtime it started raining and just as we finished and were going to get changed the rain got heavier and there were a few distant rumbles of thunder. By the time we got to the pitch it was still raining heavily and the thunder was a good bit nearer. Within a few minutes of starting the game we were all soaked to the skin, my team were in navy blue shorts and shirts and the opposition in navy shorts and white shirts. Our navy blue kit looks pretty good when wet and shines nicely, the shirts cling very much and the shorts slightly less so, maybe a good thing ! Our teacher tried to persuade us to stop the match but as we were all soaked anyway we decided we wanted to carry on. It was great splashing around in the growing number of puddles as the rain poured down and we all got quite muddy doing sliding tackles and generally falling over. We did eventually curtail the match when the lightening started as it seemed very close with one flash grounding just the other side of the school buildings with a huge bang and crackle.

> After school Jamie, Harry and me have been 'volunteered' to help out with swimming lessons for the less confident new intake boys. There are sixteen of them in total, fewer than last year, and our head of PE decided that we should split them into groups of four each. They had all been told to bring a change of clothes with them - specifically not sports kit, but jeans, long-sleeve sweatshirts, socks, underwear, and canvas shoes - but we started off as a normal swim class in their swimming trunks. Their trunks are colour coded according to which school house they belong to, so we had a mix of boys in bright red, cobalt blue, bright yellow and bright green. We got them to try swimming a width of the pool and also to jump in, just to assess more clearly how confident they were, most were OK with jumping in but after that it was mostly a case of them splashing around and not getting anywhere as they struggled to stay afloat. We got them out of the water and sat them down and outlined what we wanted to try and achieve with them, namely to be able to confidently jump in, stay afloat, make progress through the water without drinking half the pool and doing an imitation of drowning.

> We sent them off to get changed into their spare clothes and when they came back we split them into their groups of four. I got a pair of twin brothers, George and Steven, and Sebastian and Charlie. It turned out that none of them had ever deliberately got wet whilst fully clothed. Charlie said his parents could not swim and they had never been to the sea-side for a holiday and he had been excused swimming at his previous school whenever swimming was on the timetable. The twins had a fear of water after being knocked down by a wave at the beach as very small children. Sebastian said his mum got angry if he got wet or muddy, even when playing sports in proper kit, and that as his parents were divorced he had no-one else to tell her that it was perfectly normal for boys to get wet or muddy. This was going to be interesting.

> When I suggested that they all just jump in the pool in their clothes just to get used to the feeling and discover that it was nothing out of the ordinary, they were a bit reluctant. When I asked why they thought they had been asked to bring a change of clothes and were now wearing them rather than swimming trunks, they didn't seem to have linked the two things. It was still raining heavily outside, so I suggested that we go outside and get wet gradually rather than just jumping in the pool, so we did that - jumping in puddles, splashing around and kicking water at each other - and the twins even led the way in laying down and rolling through a puddle until they were soaked completely. Great fun. Once everyone was completely soaked and dripping wet, we went back into the pool and they all happily jumped in. I jumped in with them and started to get each of them floating on their backs and by the end of the lesson all four were getting the hang of that and looking forward to the next session.

> Off to school now, another swim session with the boys after school today.

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> - Re: Wet sports at school wetjumper 22:55:38 9/14/2016 (1)
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>   - Re: Wet sports at school Jamie 19:40:56 9/14/2016 (0)
>   - Re: Wet sports at school Chris 12:43:53 9/14/2016 (2)
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