Hi all, thanks for reading. I took my daughter for her first swimming lesson today, we've been to the local learner pool a lot but she hasn't ever intentionally submerged her face in the water and I haven't pushed her to. At the lesson she was asked to attempt to swim the width of the pool with a noodle with a teacher's support, this was fine. But then they asked her to do a move, pushing off from the side of the pool which involved her face going under the water. This was swimming towards the teacher who was just out of arm's reach.The first time she tried she kept her head above water and the teacher said not to hold her head up. She tried two more times and went under both times, at this point I stood up and politely said to the teacher that she had no experience of putting her face in the water, I thought it was too much too soon but didn't actually say that. They did another length of the pool and then my daughter got herself out of the pool and came to me crying, she said she needed the toilet so I took her and she was crying for some time and asked to leave and never come back. She's 4 years old, 5 in October. I just wondered what others thoughts were about what this first lesson involved? Was it too much for a first lesson? I thought they would slowly learn to submerge faces by blowing bubbles. I'm annoyed as I doubt she will go back for another lesson and I've had to pay quite a bit in advance, I went for a pricier swimming school as I thought they would be more gentle with her.