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Two weeks ago, Aaron completed his Stage 2 swimming and now has a lovely certificate and badge to show for it! The following week, he moved straight up into Stage 3 and when Kelly checked last night (after swimming) he is nearly 50% complete in that level as well! Amazing really as Aaron was really quite struggling and didn’t like it at all, but he has suddenly adapted to swimming really well and is doing brilliant!

Stage 2 Swimming Certificate

Last week, the swimming pool was finally re-opened, so Aaron could have a lesson. He did very well apparently and went in the big pool for a bit. He was still worried but there was no crying this time! This week, he couldn’t go as it was Ben’s Carol Service at School, and next week, it is the Christmas holidays and we will be out, so he can’t go again then. Then the following two week, there are no lessons due to it being Christmas and New Year, so it will be the second week in January before he gets back into it properly! Hopefully he can kick on then and complete stage 2!

Finally, after well over a year of trying to swim, Aaron finally completed his Stage 1 swimming award during the Summer holidays! Well done, Aaron!

So he has now moved on to Stage 2, which is still in the learner pool, but the children are spending more and more time in the big pool. As expected though, Aaron has reverted to being silly and not wanting to try it or even put a toe in the big pool. It is a little annoying as we know he can actually swim a bit now as we have seen him when we have gone swimming as a family. His swimming instructors wouldn’t have moved him up a level if they didn’t think he could do it either! During the holidays, he had no problems at all in Stage 2 but since he has started back at school, he has gone all silly again. This last week, he was actually in the water for about 10 minutes out of the 30 we are paying for. Nightmare! It looks like we may have to start bribing him again as swimming is one of those things that he has to learn!