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ClareC

ClareC

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My daughter has had babyswimming classes since she was 4 months. She is nearly 15 mths now and I'm really seeing the benefit. She is really confident in water and holds on to the side of the pool alone etc.


We started at Herne Hill and moved to the Dulwich pool for her current term. Herne Hill is good, however, the last term we were there quite a few lessons were cancelled and we didn't always get told which was infuriating. The reason for the cancellations were (I believe) that the swimming school were not happy with the chlorine levels, which is entirely acceptable, just would be better if they had told us albeit late notice.


Don't know if the pool has had the same issues this term or not. None of the lessons at Dulwich have been cancelled and it's a nice pool with good facilities :-) teacher (Nora) is the same at both locations. She is very good with the babies :-)

Kes

Kes

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ooh yes the music was rather lovely buggie! When we went there there was one cubicle with a bench in it and otherwise we were on the floor.


I was going to add tho that baby swimming isn't for every little one, my little girl hated it, tried at Guys for 2 terms then at Beckenham but the lessons were just a bit much for her, didn't like being on her back or water in her face. She's ok now though if we just take her swimming and let her get into in her own time and most of the others seemed ok with it.


I was rather gutted though as I'm a proper water baby (used to be a lifeguard) and had been really looking forward to it, the teachers also thought the little one was unhappy because I was scared of water and she was picking up on it!


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