Dissapointment ....

Today, the first week after October break was a dissapointing day because we were unable to carry out swimming lessons due to bad weather. But however we still managed to spend this time productivly in the computer labs. The time that we would have spent in the pool, we utilized in the computer labs letting the kids play educational computer games which would help them develop their level of english at least by a minor ammout and exposure on how to use a computer.

 Terunaga helping a student from the Vidyawardene  school

Yariq heliping a kid find keys on the keyboard

Ravin guiding a student in how open up a program  

Sunflower Village Returns!

After three consecutive delays, the kids finally arrived for their first swimming lessons on 22nd of September. Our expected number of kids was around kids, but ended up with 8. Never the less, we accepted the challenge.

As planned, we assembled in Miss. Abeyawardene's room for a brief 15-20 minutes to get to know each other.

We noted down their names and introduced ourselves to them. Afterwards we took the kids down to the pool for the first lesson. The grater majority of the children have not even been a swimming pool before which made it bit of a first time experience for some of the kids.

To begin with, we decided to make the kids walk across the width of the pool to make them feel more comfortable being in the pool. Afterwards, with little support from the swimming pool lifeguard we managed to conduct our first swimming lesson. Some of the kids had difficulty with the most fundamental skills such as blowing bubbles and kicking their legs straight holding on to the side of the swimming pool. This indicated a changeful future for us as trainers.

In order to make sure that each of the 11 kids were performing the skill taught properly, we divided the group of kids so that the 5 students from OSC would get 2 kids each to monitor. Almost all of the students from OSC have experience from last year’s group, so it was not difficult to get along with the kids.

As an addition, we have incorporated an extra segment to the course that is to teach the kids the fundamentals to using a computer. We found out only 3 kids owned a personal computer out of the group of 11 and that is one of the reasons why we decided to incorporate this new segment to the program. It also gives a new dimension to the project so that it will not bore the kids just purely learning how to swim every Thursday afternoon.

By the end of this year, I hope to see the same level of success as last year’s group with this lot. Although I will no longer be in charge by the end of this school year, it would be a great deed for me personally to see that these kids get the maximum of what the students of OSC has to offer.

After three consecutive delays, the kids finally arrived for their first swimming lessons on 22nd of September. Our expected number of kids was around kids, but ended up with 8. Never the less, we accepted the challenge.

As planned, we assembled in Miss. Abeyawardene's room for a brief 15-20 minutes to get to know each other.

We noted down their names and introduced ourselves to them. Afterwards we took the kids down to the pool for the first lesson. The grater majority of the children have not even been a swimming pool before which made it bit of a first time experience for some of the kids.

To begin with, we decided to make the kids walk across the width of the pool to make them feel more comfortable being in the pool. Afterwards, with little support from the swimming pool lifeguard we managed to conduct our first swimming lesson. Some of the kids had difficulty with the most fundamental skills such as blowing bubbles and kicking their legs straight holding on to the side of the swimming pool. This indicated a changeful future for us as trainers.

In order to make sure that each of the 11 kids were performing the skill taught properly, we divided the group of kids so that the 5 students from OSC would get 2 kids each to monitor. Almost all of the students from OSC have experience from last year’s group, so it was not difficult to get along with the kids.

As an addition, we have incorporated an extra segment to the course that is to teach the kids the fundamentals to using a computer. We found out only 3 kids owned a personal computer out of the group of 11 and that is one of the reasons why we decided to incorporate this new segment to the program. It also gives a new dimension to the project so that it will not bore the kids just purely learning how to swim every Thursday afternoon.

By the end of this year, I hope to see the same level of success as last year’s group with this lot. Although I will no longer be in charge by the end of this school year, it would be a great deed for me personally to see that these kids get the maximum of what the students of OSC has to offer