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We were really worried about this but much to our relief, when Kelly took Aaron and Coby back to swimming two weeks ago, she said it was perfect and that they had done a very good job in keeping children and parents socially distant.  There were actually only two groups of children in the pool, which was Coby’s Stage 2 in the small pool and Aaron’s Stage 5/6 in the big pool.  This meant that it was nice and quiet in the cafe for Kelly to stand and wait for them, which was the main concern really.  The only other change was that the boys’ lessons finished 5 mins earlier to ensure time for them to change and leave the premises before the next groups arrived and that they are meant to turn up in their swimming gear ready to go.  The turning up part is the hardest as Kelly takes them straight from school so they still do get changed in the changing rooms as they don’t have much choice really.  As it is so quiet, it isn’t much of an issue though, thank goodness!

For the swimming itself, they both were very rusty when they started again as they hadn’t been swimming since March!  Aaron had forgotten how to do Butterfly completely! haha  They will soon get into it again though, as long as the pool doesn’t get shut down again!!  It is good that they are back as they really need to get through this now and get on and complete their swimming lessons!

Last Saturday, Aaron completed his Stage 4 Swimming and is now moving on up to Stage 5 where they concentrate on getting the various strokes much better. Unfortunately, it means changing days as well as they don’t have Stage 5 on a Saturday morning, so he is now signed up for 4pm on a Friday. This means Kelly will have to take them all straight from school again and I will miss not having Aaron with me on Saturday mornings at swimming. Well done though and keep it up!

On Saturday, Aaron achieved his 100 metres swimming certificate, which was 4 lengths of the pool at Meadowlands. From what I could see, he managed it pretty comfortably and could have carried on a bit further! Aaron said that he has to do that for his warm up each week now! 😉 Well done, Aaron!

A few weeks ago, Aaron got his 25m swimming certificate. Well done, Aaron!

2 weeks after Aaron got his 20 metres certificate, he completed stage 3! He had been on 90%+ for several weeks but just couldn’t get over the finishing line but his teacher, Jess, passed him and he has now moved up a level. Typically, there are no spaces at the same time on a Monday (16:30) so he has had to change to 16:00 on a Monday, which isn’t too bad, but a rush from School to get there again. As Ben has moved to a Saturday morning now, it still means two separate trips to Meadowlands each week. Well done Aaron for completing this stage and it is amazing to see how well he can swim (and especially swim underwater for so long) now, compared with a year ago. 😉