50M Badge

Nicholas' swimming is coming on beautifully. I am so proud of my little fish. He has lessons twice per week: one group lesson and one private lesson. Obviously the private lesson offers much more than the group lesson but doing one of each has a lot of benefits especially since it means more time in the pool and two different perspectives as well. In level 3 they concentrate mainly on crawl and back but have started learning breast and butterfly too. The lessons are in the big pool which means it is serious swimming because they can't touch the bottom and usually the teacher isn't in the pool with them. We had an extra lesson with Virginia this week so she did a little test. Nicholas passed the STA Pool Frog 3 with flying colours. Then she did a distance test to see how far he could go in each stroke. He easily managed 50m in back, crawl was touch and go and he even just made it in breast. So he got awarded with his 50m swimming badge. Well done my boytjie - you're my super star!

PS: Nick just reminded me to add that he can also swim underwater, jump off the 1m diving board all on his own and is happy for Virginia to drop him off the 3m board as well!