Swim with Daisy

Badges!

The latest order of badges has been sent off and should be with you in your next 1-2 classes.

For those who want to order their latest badges, send me a message or email, next order will be going in in September.

Swim England Award folders, learning journey and plushie ducks also available to order!

For all my Quays parents, I know the process increase and switch to 50 weeks was hard on lots of you, Quays now have an annual price of £200 valid for the next week. It’s works out roughly £4/lesson and cheaper than the old direct debit. So even if you only attend term time, you still save money.

So after 5 years of teaching stage 1s on Sunday mornings at Holly Hill, yesterday was my last one! I’m now taking 3 weekends off to spend time with family and will be returning to Sunday’s from the 11th September, teaching on the main pool stages 3,4&5! I will miss the little ones greatly but am looking forward to my new challenge! 🏊🏽‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏾‍♀️

Keep safe on your holidays!

1. Respect the water
2. Know your limits
3. Sea swimming is very different to pool swimming
4. If you get in trouble, float like a starfish on your back

Yesterday my family and I were swimming with turtles in the ocean. Various people getting on and off the boat to sort out snorkels etc and returning.
I‘d just come up from watching a giant turtle swim underneath me and checked on my Son, also swimming. He’d realised that another (adult) family member had got into trouble and was trying to help.

When someone is in trouble in the water they will often grab in to the nearest person for help and inadvertently push them under the water to save themselves. I had to quickly push my Son away from the adult to prevent this occurring (although credit to my Son, he was holding his own very well).

The adult had been offered a life jacket to snorkel with but found it too uncomfortable to swim with so taken it off. Discomfort is not worth taking the risk especially in a weak to avaerage swimmer.

The sea wasn’t overly rough, the children (supervised) were happily swimming around, but the adult in question panicked and when panic sets in all logic tends to go out of the window.
In that state to keep their head above water a person will start to ‘ladder climb’ which is tiring and dangerous.

Popped the adult on to his back, kept his head above water and in a rescue swim headed back to the boat. The boat was slowly moving away from us so I signalled to the skipper to stop. He immediately jumped into help and between us within seconds the adult was recovered to safety aboard the boat. It’s one thing swimming/rescuing in a pool, but in the sea there are so many more factors such as the current, drift, other boats to consider.

After teaching 8 lovely classes this morning and watching this little superstar take 3rd place in her first proper gymnastics competition (she also had 2 hours of diving this morning!) we swam a mile for swimathon. 42 lengths for me and 22 lengths for the little one 💕💕

So wonderful to be back in the lovely warm pool this morning!!
I throughly enjoyed meeting the new little faces and welcoming them into our swimming family!

Thanks to a few changes at the centre I am now able to open up spaces in another class!
All those with lockdown babies, come and meet some new friends at swimming 🏊🏿‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏽‍♀️💦💦💦

STOP PRESS!!! WE ARE BACK! 🏊🏿‍♀️🏊🏾‍♀️🏊🏽‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊‍♀️

💦 New Classes start 10th September 2021
💦 Friday mornings (term time) @ Lb healthcare
💦 Babies to preschoolers

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RLSS Lifeguard

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