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Developing our skills and confidence
At BestStart Bayfair our vision is “Community at the heart.” One of the ways we honour this vision is by making use of the facilities in our local community. One facility we have partnered up with is Bay Swim. Each week we walk a group of our four-year-old children across to Baywave to participate in a swimming lesson. The sessions allow children to gain water confidence and safety skills.
As well as the obvious physical and wellbeing benefits of learning to swim, these lessons provide an opportunity to develop a wide range of important school readiness skills. The children learn about road safety rules on the walk. They carry their own swimming gear to pools in a backpack. They dress and undress themselves and are responsible for keeping a track of their own belongings. These are all behaviours that they will help them make a seamless transition to the school environment.
This terms swimming group had a very successful block of lessons. All of the children made great progress. To celebrate they were presented with a certificate outlining their achievements. We then had a family picnic at the park. Can’t wait for next term.