Out and About Spring 2021

GR Swimming Schools Joanna Lay – Owner and Mentor Lives in Newbury with her partner, teenage children, family dog, cats & fish! (in no particular order!) Advertisement

S wimming is probably one of the most important life skills you will fitness, mental and physical wellbeing that swimming promotes, being able to not just danger signs before you even step foot in the water and knowing what to ever learn. Along with swim, but to recognise the

Compton, team GR will be welcoming new and current children to their programme. The Crash Course during May Half Term is a great introduction for beginners and a skills boost for all children. Toddler swim coming soon!!......

do in an emergency – are part of GRs ethos. Their lessons for children from 3 yrs do just that. Following Swim Englands Learn To Swim programme, GR have tweaked their lessons in a unique and proven structure. Every lesson, children learn through repetition how to behave around water, how to enter, move and float in the water. Additional skills from young include submerging, right through to racing dives off the blocks in their Academy Classes! The teachers work hard to accomplish this, with patience and trust, children learn to overcome personal goals ie. swimming on their backs (upside down, back to front, not seeing where you’re going!) Being without a parent in the water for the first time; and the first time a child swims their first few strokes on their own. To some people these may be easy, but for some they are scary, including those with SENs; skills may take longer to learn– which is why Jo says “Every child is different – Every child is equal” The past year has proved worrying for parents, believing that their children are falling behind. Safety is a huge part of what GR does, the first lesson back will reflect this. With termtime lessons resuming after Easter in Thatcham, Pangbourne (nr Reading) and

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