Nearly 7yo detests swimming lessons

[Crunchymum]

Shall I just call it a day?

He started about 4 months ago (has always had a "thing" about water on his face / in his eyes but we worked on this)

He just doesn't participate and often spends most of the lesson sulking in the swimming pool steps. Even the instructor said he may not be ready she suggested a break (I've bit taken him for a month) and she didn't want him to have negative associations.

DP takes him swimming weekly for fun and he is OK, even goes down a big slide on his own.

Its first lesson back today and he has begged not to go?

Shall I just cancel his course?

FWIW his younger sister (4yo) has lessons at the same time and she absolutely loves it.

7yo is NT but I suspect there is some kind of sensory issues (he is an incredibly restrictive eater for example!)

Any advice. DP says I should make him go for a few more weeks?

Do you need a diagnosis to do SEN lessons? Could the swimming teacher put something in writing about his sensory needs? My ds loves water on his face but he was finding it difficult to learn to swim. Lessons run by our local council for children with disabilities were amazing. He learned to be a confident swimmer. He had 1:1 at the lessons but not 1:1 prices. My ds does have diagnosis but seems wrong if kids with sensory issues can not access them.

Not in the class my son goes to DerbyRacer. He doesn't have SEN but the teacher suggested it because of his buoyancy issues. He said it's a special swimming lesson need, and that was simply the right class. So there he is. I think they were worried I was going to be offended! I wasn't. I was more worried about taking up a place in an SEN class and depriving a child with a greater need, but they said the classes are under subscribed and as long as that remained the case, we were all good.

My husband taught our son. He’s done great. He hated lessons.

When does your child have lessons through school? As long as that's not soon I'd give it a gap and let him go with his Dad. I would do some 1-2-1 lessons before he goes with school so he finds it more enjoyable.