Learning to swim

[Monkey]

Can anyone recommend a really good swimming instructor/course for my 7-year-old? She's been having weekly lessons for two years and still can't swim. Thank you in advance for any ideas/advice.

[birnehelene]

I can highly recommend Celia at Dulwich College Sports Club. Please contact DCSC for her number. My daughter was in her swimming classes at DC and it took her less than a term to learn to swim. She has also had a couple of one to one lessons with Celia which she really enjoyed.

[nunheadmum]

Having paid for weekly lessons for kids for years and only now is my 8 year old starting to swim, I'd recommend trying a few individual lessons now and then with general fun pool visits in between. We had great teachers with SuperKidsSwimming weekly lessons but my youngest just had something in her head that stopped her letting go - possibly as she's quite small and didn't like not being able to touch the bottom. I think individual lessons would have focused more on her and what her issue was, which even with only 6 kids in the class, the teachers didn't have the time to do in a group class.

It sounds like you're year old may be in a similar place so it could be worth trying an individual lesson and see if it seems to help more.

[snowboarder]

I would also recommend bribery (sorry - an incentive!!). It was amazing how quickly both my sons learnt to swim during their weekly lessons when there was a much coveted toy on offer as a reward...😀

[missse22]

My sons have been having 1-2-1 swimming lessons with Matt at the Dulwich leisure centre its ?25 for 30 mins session they have had about 10 sessions each and are really progressing well.

Here is Matts number he's awesome! 07595430399