Summer is just around the corner, and what better way to prepare than by making sure your little ones are getting back in the water and learning to swim? Kids Alive – Do the Five is thrilled to announce the launch of our new drowning prevention campaign, Swim Into Summer with Kids Alive! From September 25th to […]
Water Familiarisation Activities
The Importance of Water Familiarisation Making children feel relaxed and comfortable in the water is essential before structured teaching and learning can take place. Apprehensive or frightened children will naturally have a serious barrier to learning. In many cases they will not even attempt some of the simplest learn to swim activities, which can have […]
Practice swimming skills at home
There are plenty of activities parents can do outside of swimming lessons to help their child learn to swim. This article will discuss some options for swimming outside of regular lessons to help develop good little swimmers. Open Water Swimming Open water swimming in rivers, estuaries, lakes or the beach will be easily accessible to […]
Deep Water Swimming For Beginners
Utilising shallow water where children can stand is the ideal way to teach frightened beginners to swim. In this instance, the child feels safe and in control as they independently progress through the water familiarisation stage. The shallow water environment also enables maximum practice time of all the swimmers. The teacher is not required to […]
Customer Retention in a Swim School
Retention in your swim school Maintaining and growing the number of swimmers in your program is essential for effective business operations. The number of weekly lessons and comparing them from term to term, block to block or season to season, is a hot topic for discussion during swim school management meetings. How to generate more […]