With warmer weather and school holidays on the horizon, most families have already started planning their summer trips. More likely you will be spending your summer break somewhere warm with an easy access to a nice swimming pool or sandy beaches or a lake or river-your family will be around water. Water is fun and …

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How Under 3 Year Olds Learn to Swim in France My journey to discover how Blue Wave Swim School’s learn-to-swim programme and children swimming could continue to improve took me to Paris recently.  Attending the French Federation for Aquatic Activities for Early-Years & Leisure (FAAEL) ’s 35th anniversary international congress in April  was a great …

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Dos and Don’ts of Teaching Swimming from 2016 Nordic Baby Swimming Conference As the UK starts to warm up, I cast my mind back to a wonderful cold icy few days in Stockholm at the end of last year when I went to the Nordic Baby Swim Conference organised by the Swedish Swimming Federation and …

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Ich freue mich sehr mit zwei Kolleginnen und Schwimmexpertinnen – Anitra Boszotta und Marion Falzeder, Expertinnen sowohl für das Schwimmen lernen als auch für Babys und Kleinkinder – in diesem Blog zusammenzuarbeiten. Anitra und Marion geben hier Einblick in ihre Arbeit, in dem sie die 10 wichtigsten Fragen  beantworten, die Eltern über das Schwimmen lernen wissen …

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How Swimming Lessons Are Done Elsewhere in Europe Embracing the idea of continuously improving our teaching practices and the learning environment for our swimmers is one of our core values here at Blue Wave Swim School. There are many different ways of doing this but peer-observation is my favourite method. Connecting with experts and sharing …

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Q&As With A Baby Swimming Expert (Part 2) In part one of this blog, baby swimming guru and writer of ‘Swim With Love’, Terje Stakset, explained that the goal of baby and toddler swim lessons. He explained young children can develop an affinity for swimming and learn the very basics in order to be ready …

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Introducing a long-term colleague and friend and Swimming Coach, Mr Damien Bryan. Kingston Royals SC, is a community-based swimming club in Southwest London which went from strength to strength over two years under Damien’s leadership. Kingston Royals were named Best Sports Club in 2015 by Kingston Borough Council. Squad swimmers were winning medals on the …

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Benefits of Swimming for Young Children; Parental Guide (Part 2) In part one, we listed many benefits of swimming with your young children. As a parent you may think, are there any more reasons that I need to know for taking my child to swimming lessons? Science behind importance of Toddler Swimming In a major …

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Benefits of baby & Toddler Swimming Classes Joggling schools runs and busy academic schedules are the biggest challenges for most families in big cities like London.  If they are not enough, every year, in addition to school and nursery, most parents choose and add other extra-curriculum activities, like swimming, to their kids’ already busy timetables. …

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Health Benefits of Swimming It is common knowledge that swimming is a great form of exercise. When you swim, your whole body is involved in the exercise, in other words, swimming uses the major muscle groups in the human body; from head and neck to legs and feet. For this reason, swimming is such a …

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