Year Round Swimming

4 March 2010

Year Round Swimming:

Staff at Paul Sadler Swimland have spoken with many parents over the years and know that the main reasons you take your child to swimming lessons are to:
 

• Improve their safety around water
• Develop skills that will enhance enjoyment and interest in aquatic activities
• Provide important skills that will stay with them for life

These skills, and your child’s ability to be safer around water are difficult to improve when a child’s swimming education is interrupted by breaks. These could be due to playing other sports, parents wanting to take a break over winter as my child ‘always gets sick’ or parents giving their child a rest.

Children, who attend swimming lessons year-round, without taking a break, are the ones who continue to improve their swimming skills and achieve their next certificates, while increasing their confidence around the water. At Paul Sadler Swimland we believe swimming year-round is critical in developing a child’s swimming ability. We also know that winter is a very important time for swimming: 
 

• It is a period when swim lessons are likely to be the child’s only exposure to the water.
• Those who swim throughout the year ensure that the parent’s investment in lessons is fully realized (parents aren’t paying for a child to receive the same certificate twice due to regression from a break)
• Children who miss a term of lessons often come back to find their skills have significantly regressed

To ensure you are giving your child every opportunity to improve their confidence and safety skills in and around water and to make the most of your investment in your child’s lessons, we strongly recommend that your child swims all year round.