When did you stop swim lessons?

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DS 7 wants to stop swim lessons, he doesn't look forward to going anymore.

He is able to swim, and is stage 4 currently just over half way through at 65 %.
They seem to be going over everything he's already learnt ie dolphin and frog strokes etc.

When did you stop your child's swim lessons? Once it had achieved the goal of being able to swim and get out of any dangerous situation? Or when they had perfected every stroke and got upto gala swim competition level?
Not sure whether to carry on or not.

Thanks ☺️

When they could swim 25m

I'd go till the end personally. I don't think they are such strong swimmers in stage 4. Perhaps ok in a pool but not in more dangerous situations. I'd explain why, and say they can stop when they finished all levels.

End of year 6.

My DD is in stage 5 & I said upto & including stage 6 is compulsory!

I withdrew them after stage 5 as I didn't feel it was beneficial to them... frankly their lessons were rubbish.

They learnt more by going swimming as a family.

(They were 9&10, lessons delayed through Covid)

When they can swim 25m comfortably and confidently

End of Y6. DM said the same for me (and made me have diving lessons when I finished the swimming stages!).

We stopped at roughly the point you are at now, about to go to stage 5. DD had had enough. She's a reasonable swimmer and in holiday will dive to the bottom of the pool, turn somersaults and go down all sorts of water slides. Lessons now would be about technique and stamina.

When she could correctly + comfortably swim each stroke and was confident in the water. DD got her 50m badge by the time we stopped lessons if I remember correctly - she just didn’t enjoy swimming, or more precisely didn’t like getting cold and wet every week!

About year 6 as swimming turned into perfecting lengths and stamina pre gala

End of y6. Both enjoyed it.

*and strokes

When it could no longer be fitted round other clubs - They were probably about 11 and 12 . Very good strong swimmers and they both went on to take up rowing so had to be able to swim Fully clothed .

I can't remember exactly...but I'd want them to reliably be able to swim in deep sea water and be able to tread water etc. mine could do that by 8yo but they carried on lessons for a couple of years after that as they liked them.

My DD (10) is in level 7, soon to move up to level 8. She's nearly ready to stop - she loves swimming & is very good but doesn't want to get into competitive swimming which level 8+ is about. She's now looking at the Rookies Lifeguard courses.

Both DC were competing for the local club based at the swimming pool. They gave up when they were asked to start training at 6.00 am before school. I think they were in year 5 or 6.

Once my child completed the available levels classes and did a bit of the 'swim school' style class which followed that. It was end of year 7. Could have stopped end of year 6 to be honest but child wanted to continue for a bit.

I stopped when school lessons started. They were both top set for swimming so I was confident the time was right

Just stopped DS10 during stage 5. He's never loved swimming and got to the point he can swim a couple of lengths ok.

Once they could swim a length.
Then we took them all swimming once a fortnight for another year or so.

Ours stopped as soon as our pool weren't able to move up a stage due to lack of spaces but I couldn't take them out without losing our space in the waitlist. So I paid 12+ weeks for each of them not learning anything (basically ignored by the teacher as they had already passed that stage). In all that time we were no closer to moving up so I pulled them.

Gosh, 25m seems like a very low bar. I'm not sure I'd consider someone who could swim one length but not two actually able to swim. I'm imaging we'll continue to Stage 6 or 7.

End of stage 5 for both of them, at that point they could both swim confidently albeit technically not perfectly. They weren’t really enjoying it, if they had been we’d have carried on.

After 8 loooong years!! He's 25 and still swims like a brick

End of stage 7 for both of them.