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Tuesday Oct 09, 2007

Diving buddies

This Friday as well as taking my son swimming I also took along a school friend of his. Had introduced her to one of the main people and had shown her the groups in the big pool. I had then gone and taken my own group. Unfortunately when I looked up my sons friend had been placed in the baby pool. Not cool when you are 9 years of age!! She had been very good about it and will be returning next Friday.

In my own group I only had two boys who are the complete opposite of each other. This is a shame as it pulls on the motivation of the keen swimmer. In the group next to me was a group of about eight girls and one boy. The boy was continually not listening and had started spitting water at the other girls. I had stepped in and called time out for the boy. His instructor had then spoken to him one to one. We are not against the children having fun but would like them to show respect to each other.

We eventually linked the two groups together after they had their semi serious swimming of lengths. They had a mini competition of diving into the pool and seeing how far they could go under water on their front and back. This was something they really seemed to enjoy and even the more shy children became involved. Once official play time came about the group still stayed together which waas quite nice to see. These are children who are making friendships purely from attending the swimming club.

At the end of the club two girls had remained in the water after the whistle had been blown. I asked them what they were doing. They had replied that they were staying on for the next club. That is what I call dedication!

Posted by Louise ( 9:20 AM )
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