Term 4 2018 Newsletter

A warm welcome to all our families in Term 4 and a special extended welcome to all our new families joining us for the first time this term. We trust you have enjoyed the spring break and are feeling ready for another term ahead.

Please take the time to talk to us about anything related to your child's swimming and/or any queries you have regarding our booking system. We are always here to help, and we look forward to building relationships with you and your family.

 

DATES TO PUT IN YOUR CALENDAR

15th-21st October                                Balance of all fees to be paid in full this week. Unless paying weekly.

22nd October                                        NO SWIMMING-Labour Day

26th-30th November                            Term 1 'Roll-Over' payment week (details to be advised at the time)

30th November (Friday)                Term 1 payment deadline for all bookings 'rolling over'

11th-17th December                            Water safety week

17th December                                    Final day of Term 4

7th-11th & 14th-18th & 21st-25th         January School Holiday blocks 2019

28th January- 10th April (10wks)        Term 1 dates 2019

 

WEEKLY/FORTNIGHTLY/MONTHLY PAYMENTS

Over the years an increasing amount of families have been opting for our automatic payment option. This helps to make swimming affordable 'year-round' to ensure that it is prioritised for the lifelong safety of your child/ren. It is essential that if choosing this option that you commit to regular AP amounts, so you don’t fall behind.

If this is something you may be interested, please ask us at reception.

 

BOOKING TIME

Please be vigilant during booking times, please read signs, emails, Facebook updates and newsletters to ensure you know the deadline dates required for Term 1 payment. If you are unsure of anything, please ask us so you don’t miss out on a desired spot.

 

TERM 3 2018

Last term was our busiest Term 3 ever, it is our ongoing pleasure to work with your children and the families of our community, watching each and every swimmer grow in confidence and skills over the term and year is a pure joy.

We ran our Free Babies promotion which saw 25 new families and their little ones enter in our Diaper Dolphin classes, it is always a great honour to get the opportunity to ‘give back’ to the community. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting our new little babies and we look forward to working with them over the coming terms and years. Our new baby changing ledge and wall mounted heaters proved ever popular.

Snorkel week was once again a firm favourite, lots of smiles and fun!

You may notice a little bit of maintenance and upkeep over the school holidays, we have jazzed things up a little by painting our front desk and baby play water ledge. We also painted our table and added in some extra seating for your comfort.

 

SPEEDING ON DRIVEWAY

Please remember to drive at 10kms per hour down the driveway, we would rather you to be 1min late for your lesson than have a life-threatening incident. There are blind spots and children everywhere in the car park and my four children who live in the house in front of the pool, I watch so many drivers speed carelessly down the drive putting others at risk. Driving too fast also ‘chews’ up the asphalt on the driveway unnecessarily. We do want you all to be on time but safely on time! Thank you.

PRESCHOOL STICKER CARDS

Every term we make attendance sticker cards which lives down the southern end by reception for each child, it is filed alphabetically by first name. Each week your pre-schooler puts a sticker on it, at the end of the term you take it home with you. We have noticed that some of the cards not being used, so just a gentle reminder these are here for your child’s benefit. Please ask the reception if you forgot to collect your one last term.

 

 PRACTICE TO IMPROVE

Here at Kapiti Learn To Swim we have designed a programme where skills need to be achieved before going up to the next level, making it a child paced programme rather than age based.

Each level integrates into the next to create a seamless journey of progress over the years spent here.  We pride ourselves in the belief that technique comes first, followed by speed.

Every swimmer will reach certain goals at their own pace and we help guide them through in a fun and holistic way.

To consolidate skills learnt with us we recommend you take them down to the Aquatic centre to 'back' up what they are learning at least once a week, this will ensure you are getting the most out of learning to swim with us, you will be amazed at how much faster the skills are consolidated- spending time together and learning is a win win! This is especially true for all our ONCE a week Diaper Dolphin swimmers. Twice weekly makes the swimming journey so much easier to retain for our infants.

Also playing YouTube clips of what ‘the end result’ to show what they are working towards helps.

 

CORRECT EQUIPMENT FOR IN THE POOL

Parents, please could you help you children out by ensuring their togs, caps, goggles are fitted correctly prior to their lesson beginning, this will ensure they maximise every minute of their lesson. Also, please return any LOANED caps or goggles.

Boys-please no board shorts, boy leg lycra togs are much better at creating less drag in the water, please check reception.

Girls- please no bikinis or any loose straps which fall off the shoulder. Thank you.

Caps are compulsory and can be purchased for $17 from reception, please ensure you have your own.

 

EQUIPMENT ON THE SIDE OF POOL

We have just had our large in the pool table re ‘matted’. Please can you ensure your children don’t get up on the table whilst it is sitting at the southern end of the deck. We use these tables every day in the water in our parent assisted classes. We know its lots of fun, but it’s not made to carry a child’s weight out of the water, so consequently the mat wears away and stretches.

 

 

PLEASE BE ON TIME FOR YOUR LESSON

Just a friendly reminder to arrive 10 mins before your child’s class. In our experience we have learnt that less rushing helps aid children into a smooth transition, which creates a better learning environment, therefore better overall swimming results and progress.

 

FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM

We are slowly getting more of our customers 'liking' our Kapiti Learn to Swim Facebook & Instagram page. If you are on Facebook or Instagram and haven’t done so yet, I suggest you find us and 'like' us.

We have been using FACEBOOK and Instagram more regularly as another way to get information across to you all.

We will be taking photos this term to post up showing the progress and fun that goes on here at Kapiti Learn to Swim, we will ALWAYS require permission before posting up photos.

 

Have a fantastic term everyone,

Thank you and Enjoy From,

The KLTSWIM team.

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