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Dear AUSTSWIM Teacher,
Welcome to the first Aqualife E-newsletter. This newsletter replaces the quarterly e-magazine and will be circulated to all AUSTSWIM teachers once a month to keep you up to date on industry news.
With summer underway it is an important for all AUSTSWIM teachers of swimming and water safety to ensure they to continue to educate parents and children on the importance of learn to swim and water safety and supervision.
Recent Royal Life Saving Society Australia figures revealed 302 Australians drowned over the past 12 months, 41 more than the previous year. Remind parents to ensure that children are constantly supervised in and around the water and that they receive regular learn to swim and water safety aquatic education in a fun, engaging and safe environment by appropriately accredited AUSTSWIM Teachers.
It's important that parents understand that supervision means constant visual contact, not just the occasional glance. Remind parents never turn their back on toddlers, children or swimming companions. Don't look away, don't walk off and don't get distracted. More than 50 children aged between 1 and 15 drown each year in Australia. AUSTSWIM teachers play a vital role educating the community on water safety.
AUSTSWIM would like to wish all our teachers, presenters, recognised swim schools and their families a very happy Christmas, New Year and a safe water safety season.
Gordon Mallett, AUSTSWIM Chief Executive Officer
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| AUSTSWIM STATE AWARD NOMINATIONS - NOW OPEN |
Why not give someone you know the chance to be the recipient of one of the 2010 National AUSTSWIM Awards?
The WA, QLD and SA, state AUSTSWIM Award nominations are now open! To nominate someone you know and believe to be deserving of a respective 2009 - 2010 AUSTSWIM state award, please visit your respective state page of the AUSTSWIM Website to download an appropriate nomination form.
Remember: State awards recipients are automatically nominated for the 2010 National AUSTSWIM Awards in their respective categories.
The state award categories for 2010 are:
- AUSTSWIM Teacher of Swimming and Water Safety (TSW)
- AUSTSWIM Teacher of Infant and Preschool Aquatics (INF)
- AUSTSWIM Teacher of People with a Disability (PWD)
- AUSTSWIM Presenter of the year Award
- Most Outstanding Contribution to AUSTSWIM
- AUSTSWIM Swimming and Water Safety School of the Year
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| AUSTSWIM NATIONAL AQUATIC EDUCATION CONFERENCE 2010 |
The date for the annual AUSTSWIM National Aquatic Education Conference
2010 has been set:
Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th July 2010.
Following the success of the AUSTSWIM National Aquatic Education Conference 2009. The 2010 event is to once again be held at the Radisson Resort, Gold Coast - Queensland.
To register your interest in attending please forward your contact details to conference@austswim.com.au
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| INDUSTRY FEEDBACK WANTED |
AUSTSWIM, through our continual improvement policies, are undertaking an extensive review of the 'on the job' element of the AUSTSWIM courses; specifically these are the:
Supervised Teaching Hours
Verification of Teaching Competence
All feedback received will be taken into consideration by AUSTSWIM and associated working party as part of the review of this candidate assessment task.
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| AUSTSWIM OFFICE HOURS OVER THE XMAS BREAK |
| Please note that the AUSTSWIM Head Office in Victoria and AUSTSWIM Business Centres in NSW, QLD, SA and WA will be closed for the Christmas period between Wednesday the 23rd of December 2009 re-opening on Monday the 4th January 2010. |
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| AUSTSWIM MANUAL WINS AN AWARD |
THE AUSTSWIM TEACHER OF SWIMMING AND WATER SAFETY MANUAL WINS AN AWARD
At the 2009 Australian Awards for Educational Publishing, the TAFE and Vocational Educational Single Title (joint category) winner was Teaching Swimming and Water Safety.
The Australian Educational Publishing Awards, recognize and honour the best educational materials published during the year. In 2009 the Awards celebrate excellence across all areas of educational publishing - primary, secondary, TAFE & vocational and tertiary education.
AUSTSWIM are extremely proud and excited to receive this award and would like to extend our thanks to all involved in developing the manual to what it is today.
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| BETTER BOARDS CONFERENCE |
On 23 - 25 July 2010, the 5th Australasian Better Boards Conference will be held at the Brighton-Le-Sands, Brighton Beach, Sydney.
For further information please visit: www.betterboards.net
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| AUSTSWIM TEACHER MERCHANDISE |
For further information on the great range of merchandise AUSTSWIM Have available, please click here. |
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| NEW AUSTSWIM COMMUNITY SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS (CSA's) |
AUSTSWIM would like to remind teachers, presenters and swim schools of the 'new' AUSTSWIM Community Service Announcements that were distributed in September this year.
There are 4 different versions of the CSA's featuring both AUSTSWIM ambassadors, and Olympic Medallists, Geoff Huegill and Brooke Hanson.
If your Swim School is interested in playing the community Service announcements on the screens within your centre, please contact AUSTSWIM on 1300 885 529.
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