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 Schools
5 Important Skills – How to Teach Freestyle
By using a progressive learn to swim approach, all children have the opportunity to learn the modern freestyle swimming action. It is quite easy to learn how to teach freestyle to kids, given the correct tools. Swimming has long been a popular activity for fun, fitness, health and safety. Evidence […]
A Guide to Teaching Tumble Turns
Why We Teach Tumble Turns Tumble turns are an important skill for young swimmers to master – especially as they start to increase distances and perform repetitive sets of 50m or 100m and beyond in their sessions. This is an important skill for swim teachers and coaches to teach, as it […]
Beginner Swimmers at your Swim School
When it comes to children learning to swim, it’s very important to be patient with beginner swimmers at your Swim School, and encourage them with their lessons. Swim Teachers must advise parents that they must understand the important role they play. They should regularly take their child to the pool […]
Creating Circuits in Swimming Lesson Plans
Following on from the article last month about circuits in your swim school. Over the years the team at World Wide Swim School (WWSS) have developed countless lesson plans and ideas about how to run effective and efficient swimming lessons to get the best out of swimmers. One of our […]