The End of 2010 Autumn Term is Approaching

It has been a fantastic term at Blue Wave Swim School. We are so proud to have so many enthusiastic swimmers and learner on board this term and it has been a pleasure to teach them.

2010 Autumn term will finish on Monday 13th of Dec 2010 and the last lesson at Wimbledon College venue is on Saturday 11th of Dec 2010. The re-booking for swimming lessons for 2011 Spring term has just started.

A big “Thank you” to all of our pupils and hope to see you all in January 2011.

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New Research Has Shown the Benefits of Learning Swimming for Young Children

A group of scientific researchers in  Australia have shown that participation in swimming lessons is benefiting the over all health and well-being of children. Early results of a study at Griffith University in Queensland has revealed that children who learn how to swim at a young age have physical, social, intellectual and language development advantages compared to the non-swimmers. Professor Jorgensen said this study was the largest of its kind in 30 years and stated: “We’ve only just done the first year of the study but already the indicators are suggesting that the children who have been in longer periods of time in early swimming do appear to be hitting those intellectual milestones, those physical milestones, earlier than children who aren’t doing swimming”.

It is defeinately a very good news for us and I personally think it is another proof that swimming is a fantastic sport and children could benefit immensely from their participation in a structured “Learn-to-Swim” Programme.

If you are interested to read more about this new study, please follow the below links:

http://topnews.co.uk/215868-swimming-fosters-children-s-development

http://www.swimnews.com/news/view/8203

Many thanks,

Marjan

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October Half-Term Break is Finished and Our Swimming Lessons Resumed Again on Monday 1st of November 2010.

After having a week off last week because of the school half-term, we are back for more swimming lessons. We say welcome back to all of our learners and enthusiastic swimmers and a very warm welcome to those who have recently joined our “learn-to-swim” programme.

It was so nice to see our Monday’s lessons’ learners and swimmers on Monday 1st of November 2010, at Burntwood school, and it has to be said, they seem to be very interested in learning swimming and they are progressing very well this term. We are also looking forward to seeing our Saturday lessons’ pupils again on Saturday 6th of November 2010 at Wimbledon college.

Our 2010 Autumn term will finish on Monday 13th December 2010 and we will start taking booking for the 2011 Spring term, which will start in January 2011, in November 2010.

Thank you.

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New “Adult & Child” Swimming Programme Have Been Added

Since we first started to offer “Adult and child” swimming lessons on Saturday afternoons in June 2010, we have received a very positive response and an excellent feedback from the parents who have participated in our classes. So, we have decided to add new “Adult & Child” swimming prgrammes for 2010 Autumn term. In Autumn, we will offer “Adult & Child” swimming lessons on Mondays at 5.00 pm at Burntwood school (SW17 0AQ) and on Saturdays afternoons there will be two sessions; at 2.20 pm and 3.50 pm, at Wimbledon College (SW19 4NS).

For those people who would like to know a bit more about our programme and they are considering to join us, I would like to share a lovely comment about our classes which we have received from one of our parents:

“Our daughter started her first “Adult & Child” swimming classes with Blue Wave Swim School when she was 19 months. She didn’t have any experience in the water and her first lesson was a bit of shock for her and she was not the most cooperative.  Marjan uses favourite songs and toys to make the children comfortable and through our daughters tears of protest,  she was signing along to her favourite songs.  Upon our daughters second lesson, she was laughing, splashing and jumping in with excitement.  Amaia now loves swimming class, she looks forward to it every week and practices what she learns at home.  She progresses a little each lesson and is consistently moving forward in her abilities.  Not only is it enjoyable, but the class is also helpful for us as as parents, giving us tools to help Amaia with her swimming when we are not in class.  We are looking forward to continuing her lessons with Marjan and Blue Wave Swim School”- Tara Pinochi

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What is an “Adult & Child” swimming lesson?

Young children can benefit from swimming immensely. Swimming and water activities have a positive effect on children’s learning and their physical and psychological development. Since we have started, we have been asked many times if we could provide swimming lessons for children younger than 3 years old, so, we have added a new programme to suit this age group; our “Parent & Toddler/Baby” swimming lessons. “Parent & Toddler/Baby” swimming programme, also known as “Adult & Child” swimming progarmmes, are a series of specially designed and structured swimming lessons for children who are aged 3 years old or younger. But, most parents would like to know what are the aims of these lessons and what are the benefits of “Adult & Child” swimming classes. The aim of these classes is, firstly, to promote water-confidence in children and for children who are younger than 3, it is very important to feel safe in water, and nothing could make very young children to feel safe and secure in water than actually having parents/guardians in water with them. These classes also aim to create an enjoyable enviroument for parents and children and teach basic swimming skills like, floatation on front and back, traveling in water with basic kicking and paddling actions, breath control (blowing bubbles) and safe entries in the pool and exits. To make lessons fun, our fully ASA qualified instructor is using nursery rhymes. Popular rhymes are carefully chosen to go with different class activities, to ensure children are enjoying the swimming lesson’s different practices . Needless to say that, these classes are an excellent enviroument for parents to spend quality time with their children and do fun activities together, activities which are also beneficial to the over health of  children.

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