Swimming expectations

[MsPickleparent]

Question.. after 2 years of school lessons, (term time for the full academic year) what would the expectation be in terms of a 7 year olds swimming ability, and updates to parents?

I wouldnt expect much at all as schools would only have say 35 lessons per year.
My dc was pretty fast to learn and could swim unaided after 20 preschool lessons, but took another six months on 30 min lessons to get to swimming lengths

Is it a private school club?

If it is just swimming in the school pool during school day, I wouldn’t expect much progress. My dc1’s state primary had a pool - it was only 60 deep and by the time the kids had changed hardly anything got done because the class teacher could only supervise a few kids in the pool at one time. So most of the time sitting on the poolside. It was just a way for the school to meet its national curriculum requirement. No updates to parents.

If you are paying for proper lessons at a private club based on a school, with a trained swim teacher, I’d expect them to follow a recognised swim qualification and update you maybe monthly?

@Allicanteat i’d say that’s really fast! Although maybe your kids take instruction better than mine who just want to play about all the time!

So if its just a half hour lesson once a week during term time with the whole class I would expect not a great deal of progress and next to no communication. If you want your child to learn to swim get them lessons outside of school.

There are about 10 children in the class,it's school lessons with a swim teacher.

Thank you, hadn't thought about targets and appearances, was hoping they actually wanted to teach