Persuasive Writing: Swimming Lessons

Swimming lessons should be compulsory for all students: YES

Points:

• Dangers of not knowing how to swim
• Career opportunities
• Entertainment

The beach is a very popular place to go on a hot day. But if you want to go in the water, what's the point if you don't know how to swim? I think that swimming lessons should be compulsory for every student from Year 3 to Year 7. It can be a very dangerous thing if you don't know how to swim. Knowing how to swim can open up job or sports career opportunities, and it's just plain fun to go swimming with your mates in summer.

Not knowing how to swim can be dangerous in many situations. Swimming is a vital skill to many species, including humans, due to the dangers that lurk in the waters. Going to the beach, for example, and getting out farther than you expected can be deadly if you don't know how to swim. That applies for any body of water you can swim in, although it's not as bad for places like swimming pools as there are typically people that can help you. Not only that, but if you're in danger of getting attacked by an underwater animal and you can't swim, how can you escape without help? This is why swimming is such a vital skill and should be compulsory at schools.

Underwater career opportunities are more abundant than it seems. Professional swimmers for the Commonwealth and Olympic Games are always on hand, and the right skill level for swimming in these events can start at school. There are also normal paying jobs, like underwater conservation or aquatic center jobs. The training for these kinds of jobs and careers starting at school is crucial, as the right level of skill is required by the time they leave, as with any job. Swimming can not only be used to get jobs, but fun ones.

What's better than going swimming with your friends on a hot day? It's always a fun experience to splash around in the cold water during the hot summer. Though it's just as refreshing to sit with your feet dangling in the water, it's nowhere near as fun as swimming around. Beaches, lakes, and swimming centers are all open in the summer, and they're for people to have fun and cool off. What's the point if swimming isn't an option? If swimming is taught in schools, it will help children have more fun later on in life.

In conclusion, every student should undergo compulsory swimming lessons paid for by the school. With these lessons, they will be out of danger, can find more jobs, and will have fun later on. Every child has a right to learn basic life skills, and swimming is one of these skills.

Write That Essay

WALT: Identify Write That Essay (WTE) sentences to improve our writing.

1. The Simple Sentence (Start with your subject)
Swimming is a vital survival skill.

2. Very Short Sentence (Five or fewer words)
Movement means change.

3. The Power Sentence (Twelve or fewer words)
Many dangers lurk under dark waters.

4. Red, White, and Blue (Group of three)
Many high-action sports have risks like this, such as rugby, hockey, and basketball.

5. The Adverb Start (Start sentence with an adverb)
Unsurprisingly, students are excited to enter the new nga kahui.

6. Begin With a Preposition (Start with a preposition)
After the success of the Learning Commons, staff are confident that these new buildings will excite students just as much.

7. The -ing Start (Start with an -ing verb)
Seeing the effect of current classrooms on the students, the new buildings will be a refreshing change.

8. The -ed Start (Start with an -ed verb)
Committed to seeing students happy, Hornby High School staff are putting as much effort as possible into the nga kahui.

9. The Semi-Colon (Replace a conjunction with a semi-colon)
The staff are happy with the progress of the new buildings; the students seem to be as well.

10. The Em-Dash (Phrase in a sentence that is at odds with the rest of the sentence)
Some students - definitely the minority - aren't all that excited about the new buildings.

11. The W-Start Sentence (Start the sentence with a W word)
While the buildings are in their final stages, the students anticipate moving in late term three.

12. Explore the Subject (Explain the subject mid-sentence)
The nga kahui, new classrooms where students will feel more at home, should be ready to move into by the end of term three.

Group Performance

I'm doing a group performance with Paige and Jemima. We're singing the Havana Sing-Off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQDdbMJYMQc
The song is a mashup of a bunch of different songs over the instrumental to 'Havana' by Camila Cabello. It's probably best to figure out which songs come where first.

Persuasive Writing - Boxing (Completed)

"Boxing should not be classified as a sport"
Argue against

• Boxing is a physical action sport
• Not all sports have teams
• Require years of training to get pro

There are a wide range of sports for people to choose from while they are still young. One of these is boxing, and while some believe that boxing should not be classified as such, I disagree. Boxing requires years of training, is high-action and can keep a participant fit, and just because there isn't a team on at once doesn't mean it's not a sport.

Years of training is required for any professional sport, including boxing. This is important to remember because while some believe boxing simply requires fighting skills, this isn't the case. Boxing has a certain technique to it to keep the participants safe. For example, there are some parts of the body that boxers are forbidden to hit on another person for their safety, such as the back of the head. The safety precautions on the fighters, boxing gloves, mouth guards, and even padded helmets, are all there so the fighters are not injured if they hit too hard or are hit in the face. They continue training between matches as well, so they're always aware of what not to do in the heat of a match, just like any other sport. Without the right training, boxers can be seriously injured.

Boxing is a high-action sport that can very easily hurt someone. Approximately 8,700 boxing-related injuries happen a year - over a quarter of those being to children and adolescents - yet it is also an effective way to keep someone in a good physique. Many high-action sports have risks like this, such as rugby, hockey, and basketball, but that doesn't deter people from playing it. Physical activity is what makes a physical sport what it is.

Do recreational sports need large teams like in rugby or soccer/football? Unsurprisingly, not all of them require large teams of people in-game at once. Indie wrestling - which is very much like boxing in some ways - only requires teams in tag matches; even then it's only ever three people on a team at once. Chess, which is also counted as a recreational sport in some places, is only two people versing over a table. This matters to the argument because being a team doesn't qualify the sport, what qualifies something as a recreational sport is that the players are having fun competing. That's why we play them.

This text proved that there are many reasons for boxing to be considered a sport. Years of training is required, and it's a very high action sport, just like any other. It is also recreational despite the lack of a proper team. However, this text may change in time as the world changes, and boxing may be taken off the list of recreational sports even though there are reasons to keep it on. Every day, new people are being introduced to this incredible sport.