The Van Asch Deaf Education Centre in Sumner, Christchurch is a special school for deaf children.
Recently the school held a swimming workshop with students to teach them to be safer in, on and around the water.
Leanne Stocks (Swimming New Zealand Education Advisor), with the help of a signing teacher, spent the afternoon with 13 students teaching them:
A Van Asch teacher said "the children had a lot of 'fun' but also learnt a great deal about water safety.
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