Going swimming in Year 2

[FallenAngel22]

Had a letter home before half term to say DD's year are starting swimming this week at the local Uni pool. Now although DD has been in the pool many times and is confident, she can't swim. I'm planning on speaking to her teacher tomorrow about how it's going to work but wondered if anyone here had any experience either as a parent or teacher. How many adults go with them? Do they usually have instructors in the pool? What if the water is deeper than DD can stand up in? She's small for 6!

Probably worrying needlessly but am sure I was around 9 or 10 before we went swimming with school!

My kids (now 9 and 10) don't have wellies - yet we manage to go walking all times of the year.

The kids prefer to wear warm footwear that as been fitted to their feet (walking boots, trainers etc) rather than wellies which seem cold even with the thickest socks.

Well of course they have walking boots for winter! I'm talking about when they have shorts and a t-shirt on and you take wellies and a kagool. April, May, June time when it can still be damp in the woods around here esp as we're near the coast but is warmer.

Why on earth would I put them in wellies to freeze on cold winter days? They have proper walking boots and they also have proper snow boots for when we go away in winter. But they find the walking boots too warm and sticky when the weather is better. But it's damp and they wander through longer grass so wellies are perfect.

Spiderpig, when we lived up north, DH complained constantly about what he called 'Manchester drizzle' which was cold and damp and he reckoned lasted 10mths of the year! He seems much happier down here weather wise which makes me laugh as he's Scottish so you'd have though Manc weather would have suited him.