Swimming very well organised in Balerno. The community high school has a big pool that everyone can use.
I moved here eleven years ago. My eldest child had a swimming party and it was a bit tense with plenty of parents in the water, around the pool.
When my next child started having swimming p[arties it was just two kids we had to watch and doable with two parents in pool and one on sidelines
last child pool party just me in water - all good swimmers by the 7th birthday.
This is a direct result of the swimming lessons ongoing in the community high school that everyone buys into [in our wee middle class bubble].
Swimming lessons kick in at the primary school in P3 - not sure there will be anyone in the P3 class who can't swim already? the lessons will be stroke development.
@chdot - the stat 50% of drownings occur in swimming pools? Needs more teasing out. You do need a volume of water in which to drown but the lifeguards usually know what they are doing. I had a friend who died in the arlington baths in glasgow - heart attack.
As we are on the topic does anyone know of a source of good ear plugs? I develop glue ear if the water gets in these days and last Monday the coach had me doing one armed front crawl so I shipped a lot of water and my brand new zoggs ear plugs in combo with rubber zoggs cap was useless. My head too big for standard caps? was looking at elastic cap in tesco last night - £8.97 and not looking very big but if super stretchy and one that wont ride up, it might be worth a punt
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