Library Guides: Aquatic sports and safety : Overview

It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you. (Dawn Fraser, n.d.)

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Aquatic sports and safety | Overview: Keywords

Click on the terms to access a simple definition from Lexico, the online Oxford Dictionary.

Back stroke, Breaststoke, Butterfly, Diving, Freestyle, Swimming, Water sports

Aquatic sports and safety | Overview: Articles

Staying Safe on a Surf Beach: What Are Rip Currents? (Pitman, Gallop & Brander, 2019)
"Everyone enjoys visiting the beach and playing or swimming in the water, but sometimes, waves breaking on beaches can create strong, narrow currents that can pull you out of your depth and into deeper water, where you may find yourself in trouble. We call these rip currents, and they are the main cause of drowning and rescues on surf beaches. The best way to stay safe at the beach is to always swim near lifeguards and avoid swimming if there are none around. Two important things to know about rip currents are: (1) how to spot them; and (2) what to do if you get caught in one. That is what we want to tell you about in this article!" (Pitman, Gallop & Brander, 2019)
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Pitman S, Gallop S and Brander R (2019) Staying Safe on a Surf Beach: What Are Rip Currents?. Front. Young Minds.

Aquatic sports and safety | Overview: eBooks

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Safety Around Water by MaryLee Knowlton
ISBN: 9781427166906
Publication Date: 2011
Even a shallow pool can be dangerous if you don't take care! Important lessons of water safety are made easy and accessible in Safety Around Water.

Swimming by Scott Bay
ISBN: 9781492508441
Publication Date: 2016
Be confident in the pool or open water with Swimming: Steps to Success. This proven program will help you master these techniques: * Freestyle * Backstroke * Breaststroke * Butterfly * Starts and Turns * Open Water * Survival Swimming Step-by-step instruction and color photos show basic arm and leg movements along with proper body position for each skill. Drills reinforce the instruction and help you practice each stroke. There's even a scoring system for gauging success and determining readiness to advance to new skills. Whether you're instructing, learning to swim, or looking to improve your aquatic skills, Swimming: Steps to Success will let you develop at your own pace.

Aquatic sports and safety | Overview: Online resources

GSV diving and swimming (Girls' Sport Victoria)
Information on GSV diving and swimming events dates and times.
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"GSV encourages all girls to participate in school sport, whether it be trying a new sport in a non-competitive environment or representing their school in GSV interschool sport and carnivals. GSV also offers a number of opportunities for girls wishing to compete at an elite level." (Girls' Sport Victoria, n.d.)
Swimming Victoria
Information on swimming competitions and coaching across Victoria
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"Swimming Victoria is the governing state sporting association for swimming in Victoria. Established in 1893, Swimming Victoria is a not-for-profit organisation... representing the interests of approximately 140 swimming clubs and over 11,500 members (Swimming victoria, n.d.)
Swimming Australia
The national body for swimming, this site includes information on swimming competitions, learning to swim, and high performance pathways for elite swimmers.
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"Swimming Australia is the peak governing body for swimming with nearly 1,000 clubs and 90,000 registered members nationally." (Swimming Australia, n.d.)

Insert Subject | Overview: Curriculum alignment

This Mentone Girls' Grammar School LibGuide supports the following Victorian curriculum outcomes. Click on the links to explore more.

Health and Physical Education / Levels 7 and 8 / Movement and Physical Activity / Understanding movement [VCHPEM136]
Participate in physical activities that develop health-related and skill-related fitness components, and create and monitor personal fitness plans
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Elaborations:
* performing physical activities that improve health- and skill-related components of fitness and analysing how the components are developed through these activities (LLPA, HBPA)
* measuring heart rate, breathing rate and ability to talk in order to monitor the body’s reaction to a range of physical activities, and predicting the benefits of each activity on health- and skill-related fitness components (HBPA)
* designing and monitoring a personal fitness plan that proposes realistic strategies for maintaining fitness, health and wellbeing (LLPA, HBPA)
Health and Physical Education / Levels 7 and 8 / Movement and Physical Activity / Learning through movement [VCHPEM140]
Evaluate and justify reasons for decisions and choices of action when solving movement challenges
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Elaborations:
* explaining and justifying the movement concepts and strategies selected in response to movement challenges (RE, CA, LLPA, GS)
* demonstrating to others the approach taken to solve movement challenges (RE, GS, CA)
* identifying factors that enabled them to achieve success in movement activities and explaining how these factors can be transferred to other learning contexts (RE, GS, CA, LLPA)
Health and Physical Education / Levels 7 and 8 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Being healthy, safe and active [VCHPEP126]
Investigate and select strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing
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Elaborations:
examining strategies for safe practices in different environments, including home, transport and aquatic environments
Health and Physical Education / Levels 9 and 10 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Being healthy, safe and active [VCHPEP144]
Plan, rehearse and evaluate options (including CPR and first aid) for managing situations where their own or others’ health, safety and wellbeing may be at risk
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Elaborations:
planning and practising responses to emergencies where they may be required to administer first aid to a friend, including CPR (S)
Health and Physical Education / Levels 9 and 10 / Movement and Physical Activity / Moving the body [VCHPEM152]
Perform and refine specialised movement skills in challenging movement situations
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Elaborations:
* adapting and responding to changes in equipment that increase the complexity of a movement task or performance (GS, CA, RE)
* transferring skills learnt in one movement situation to a different situation (GS, RE, CA)
performing specialised movement skills in situations where the rules or conditions have been modified to vary complexity (RE, GS, CA)
* using feedback from a variety of sources to refine specialised movement skills and performances
Health and Physical Education / Levels 9 and 10 / Movement and Physical Activity / Moving the body [VCHPEM153]
Evaluate own and others’ movement compositions, and provide and apply feedback in order to enhance performance situations
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Elaborations:
* using knowledge of results feedback to support another student in performing a skill with greater accuracy or control (CA, GS, RE)
* responding to teacher and peer feedback to enhance performance (CA, GS, RE)
using ICT to record others’ performance, and providing feedback on synchronicity and timing of movements in relation to other people, objects or external stimuli (RE, GS)
* providing constructive feedback on their own and others’ performance by using movement-analysis software to break down a skill or sequence (RE, GS, CA)
Health and Physical Education / Levels 9 and 10 / Movement and Physical Activity / Learning through movement [VCHPEM158]
Devise, implement and refine strategies demonstrating leadership and collaboration skills when working in groups or teams
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Elaborations:
* evaluating the contribution they make as an individual to teamwork, leadership and enjoyable participation for all (GS, RS, RE, LLPA, CA)
* using self-talk and encouragement to motivate themselves and team members to continue to participate and improve performance (RS, GS, LLPA, RE, CA)
* creating and implementing self-assessment and peer-assessment tools to evaluate performance in a variety of roles (CA, RE, GS, LLPA)
* identifying and critiquing leadership styles and group/team dynamics through collaboratively solving initiative games (LLPA, RE, RS, CA, GS)
Health and Physical Education / Levels 9 and 10 / Movement and Physical Activity / Learning through movement [VCHPEM159]
Transfer understanding from previous movement experiences to create solutions to movement challenges
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Elaborations:
* drawing parallels between successful movement strategies in one sporting situation and how similar strategies could be used effectively in a different sport (GS)
* speculating on possible outcomes of innovative solutions to movement challenges based on past experiences (LLPA, RE, CA, GS)
* reflecting on successful movement solutions and proposing how they can be transferred to new movement challenges (CA, LLPA, GS, RE)
* demonstrating motivation, persistence, confidence and commitment when faced with difficult or unfamiliar movement tasks (GS, RE, CA, LLPA)
Health and Physical Education / Levels 9 and 10 / Movement and Physical Activity / Learning through movement [VCHPEM160]
Reflect on how fair play and ethical behaviour can influence the outcomes of movement activities
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Elaborations:
* participating in competitions where players rather than an independent official are responsible for applying the rules (GS)
* discussing the role in promoting fairness and ethical behaviour in sport of organisations such as the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority, sporting tribunals, Australian Human Rights Commission and the Court of Arbitration for Sport
reflect on how equitable participation in group activities can influence outcomes in physical activity (LLPA, GS, CA)
* investigating the impact of performance-enhancing drugs on individuals and sporting codes (GS, LLPA, CA)