So DS (who will be 6 in August) had a year of swimming lessons in a 2-1 class. The other child was better than him but he did ok. I had to stop that as it was too expensive.
This year he's been in a small class - between 7 and 3 kids each week. He also had a week of 1-1 lessons in October. And he still can't swim. He seems to be regressing. I've complained about the lack of teaching continuity which is part of the problem but the other kids are getting on with it, progressing and moving on while he's going nowhere, literally.
It looks as though he doesn't kick hard enough so he sinks after one or two strokes.
He is comfortable in the water and enjoys the lessons but I can't keep spending without any progress.
What do I do? Get a private 1-1 teacher for another set of intensive sessions? Keep plugging away in the class? We've had plenty of swimming based holidays and he loves the splashing but is not making the leap.
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Preminstreltension · 12/06/2015 18:27
In all honestly, we were in the same position with dd1, and in the end we gave up and just waited for her to mature. At seven and a half she went back to lessons and it clicked immediately - she went from being utterly crap to swimming multiple kilometers in a term. It was just a maturity thing I think. She had been having lessons on and off since she was three. We were just chucking money down the drain really (including special summer holiday one on one lessons in a private pool).
Ds was the same, although with him it kicked in a year earlier.
There are obviously kids who get it much earlier, but mine just didn't. And we took them in the pool from babies. It was very frustrating, but sometimes no amount of throwing money at something will fix it. For ours it was just time and maturity, and when they got it, they were off. It didn't do any of them any harm. Both have bronze medallion and ds could swim for the local club if he could be bothered.
Dd2 is still learning at 11. For her it is her disability that makes it hard, so we are still throwing money into swimming lessons 
It will come.
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