Hi, My daughter is 7 years old and she is in year 3. This term her school is doing swimming lessons, although she has been swimming in the local swimming school for 4 years(currently in stage 7), she is happy to go with her school as well.
She can confidently swim in each stroke 50 meters no problem. But her PE teacher pointed out she has two technical problems, the first one is when she is doing front crawl, she lifts her head up slightly at the front rather than from 30 degrees above water. The second problem is when she is doing backstroke, she doesn't use her arms at the same time.
Despite that she can swim 50 meters on each stroke, her PE teacher said she won't pass national curriculum because those two technical problems. I am very shocked to hear that because I had a look swimming national curriculum, there was no any indication about what kind of technical problem will make them fail.
And I really don't like the way she talked about my daughter. After the 1st lesson my daughter was in the middle group, some children were clearly not as good as her ended up in the top group. So I went to see the PE teacher and wanted to know why. She told me even my daughter is in the top group, she won't pass the national curriculum. I was so shocked and asked her:"so you won't let her pass?" She said: "no, I won't let her pass, but if she stays in the middle group, I will let her pass. "
I really don't know what to say and what to do, I feel I have been threatened by a PE teacher.