Teach your children essential swimming skills
Before enrolling your child into your local/neighbourhood or closest swimming school, here are some important tips.
With glorious weather looming, Eastern Gauteng Aquatics (EGA) would like to offer parents of young children some tips on the importance of swimming lessons for their children and what to look for when choosing a swim school.
In a country like South Africa, where almost every home has a swimming pool, and where children are more often exposed to water sources, the safety of our children in and around swimming pools, dams, rivers and the sea, is of paramount importance to each one of us.
Choosing to educate your child in water awareness, water safety and the acquisition of swimming skills, is not a matter of choice, but a matter of necessity.
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It is a life skill that must be achieved by everyone.
Before enrolling your child into your local/neighbourhood or closest swimming school, here are some important tips:
• Visit the prospective swimming school before enrolling your child.
• The teachers at the swimming school must be qualified and be registered with Swimming South Africa (SSA).
• They should also be registered with the affiliate EGA, which offers teachers ongoing courses and workshops for continuous development.
• If certificates are not visually displayed, you as a parent are entitled to ask to see them.
The following qualifications are recognised by SSA:
• An SSA learn-to-swim-instructor’s-certificate (the entry-level qualification) to teach children of three years and older.
• An SSA todswim-certificate for teaching babies aged between one and three years old.
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