Year 10 goes Surfing and Snorkelling

On Friday 26 February, we went on the Year 10 Physical Activity and Sports Studies (PASS) excursion to Manly. We were pretty anxious as it had been raining all week, however we were lucky to have beautiful weather on the day. Despite the waves at Manly Beach being too rough to surf on we still got to do surf board skills in the water and snorkel down at beautiful Shelly Beach. We managed to see lots of fish whilst snorkelling some girls even managed to catch a glimpse of the famous Shelly Beach Blue Groper. Travelling with all of the Year 10 PASS cohort made it a very enjoyable experience for all!

We had spent the duration of our time in PASS lessons preparing for this excursion. In our practical lessons, we would practice snorkelling as well as board skills on boogie boards in the pool and in our previous theory lessons we had been learning about about promoting physical activity and how to evaluate safety aspects of the excursion as a whole. Not only did we get to head down to the beach, we were getting to experience this day with friends and peers which made it 10 times more enjoyable. We have enjoyed all our lessons we had in PASS and were very grateful we got to go on this trip because we were unable to attend other excursions due to Covid. Thank you to Mr Donley, Mr Starr and Mrs Ferguson our PASS teachers.

– Grace and Pascale (Year 10)