I am passionate about swimming and aim to teach children in a safe, warm, friendly environment building water confidence. Each child progresses working on the four main strokes starting with crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly, while concentrating on excellent technique. The small groups of maximum 6 children enable them to learn quickly and effectively. The last lesson is a skills and fun session where children who have their 10 metre badge or more, use masks, snorkels and fins. They learn to surface dive, swim through hoops and practice the correct breathing techniques with the latest equipment. Non-swimmers use woggles, pick sinkers up off the steps and swim through surface floating hoops without the use of goggles, so they become water confident from an early age. I want each child to feel relaxed and happy in the water and this enables them to progress quickly. In most cases within 3 months children can swim independently in the deep end. Feedback from parents have said because it is quiet each child can concentrate and learn quickly gaining confidence and as parents are not present for most of the lesson there is no pressure or distraction.
