News & Events / FLOAT in 8; PADDLE in 16; SWIM in 32: Windy Hill Swim School's Committment

Windy Hill Swim School have been teaching the local community how to swim for over a decade. This represents a lot of experience and the lessons of the last decade along with the experience of 23 other Belgravia Leisure Swim School's nationally have been combined to revamp the program going into 2011.

Royal Life Saving's pre-eminent learn to swim program, Swim & Survive will continue to provide the curriculum for the program, however from 2011 the program's primary focus will be meeting it's commitment to teach a school age child with minimal experience of the water to float in 8 weeks, paddle in 16 weeks and swim in 32 weeks.

This commitment is borne from the understanding that the objective for most parents and adult students in a learn to swim program is to be able to swim to safety should danger strike.

Historically swimming lessons run during school terms and break during school holidays. The impact of this is that children regress rapidly during this break often losing the skills built up over several weeks. Unfortunately because of this many children stay in the same level for sometimes well over a year and parents get frustrated with the lack of progression and withdraw the child from swimming all together. It is at this stage that the child becomes a risk in and around the water.

To combat this regression, Windy Hill Swim School will operate throughout the year with the expection of a four week break over Summer holidays.

Another major improvement to the program has been 'beefing' up of our feedback to parents about their child's development to enable the parent to support rapid progression by reinforcing the teaching points delivered by the child's instructor. Further to this, resources have been committed to enable ON DECK Supervisors to remain on pool deck communicating with both parents, children and adult students.

These and a raft of other improvements are promising to place Windy Hill Swim School at the forefront of teaching swimming and water safety.

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