How Worcester Swimming Club can help your child to learn to swim…


Novices & Improvers aim to start swimmers in the term of their 5th birthday. Swimmers can be admitted earlier as long as they have started school.

If you’re interested in joining, or would like further information, please email novimp@worcestersc.co.uk

 

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Teacher Profiles

Margaret Comerford
I qualified as a swimming teacher in 1992. I have no competitive swimming background – I was asked, along with other parents, if I’d like to help out as a teaching assistant soon after my son, Michael, started swimming lessons. I jumped at the chance not, I must confess, because I had a burning ambitions of becoming a swimming teacher, but because it was (and still can be) really hot watching your child swim and I thought, “What a great way to keep cool!”, and I’m still here, even though my son gave up swimming a few years later.

The club did, then, encourage and support me into becoming a trained swimming teacher and I have had the joy and privilege of being part of a growing and evolving Novices’ and Improvers’ section of the Club. I have, over the years, taught with some great teachers and met countless wonderful children – many of whom are now grown and have children of their own. In fact, you really appreciate how long you’ve being doing the job when your ex-pupils’ children come to you for swimming lessons. I wonder if I’ll still be around to teach those ex-pupils’ grandchildren! Mmm.. Now there’s a thought.

Sheila King
I began helping in the Novices’ section of the club over 23 years ago. I qualified in 1992 and began teaching the non-swimmers from 4.5 years upwards.

I started out like most of the teachers, watching my children in their lessons, never dreaming I would become a swimming teacher and still be here all these years later. My first job was to register and escort the swimmers back to their parents in the changing rooms. I was offered the opportunity to assist the teachers in the pool, where I eventually took my own classes and qualified. I am very pleased to offer the same opportunity to our older club swimmers who come and help.

I have lost count of the swimmers I have taught to swim. My heart is definitely in this section, where I proudly watch a child conquer a fear, put their face in the water and swim for the first time. I also teach lots of swimmers in school and gladly recommend swimmers to join the Club to further their skills and become successful. A team of swimmers I put together became Worcestershire School Champions in the Sainsbury’s Games back in the summer: a proud moment. Another proud moment is that three of my daughters have taught with me in the pool. Two became poolside helpers and my other daughter, a qualified swimming teacher, taught with me in the pool until last year. I feel I have come a long way since teaching myself to swim in the hole outside the pool.

Helen Rimell

It took me a while to sum up the courage to put my head under the water for the first time, but once I had, a real passion for swimming ensued. As a junior I swam breastroke competitively and nowadays I train in the senior county squad, but I don’t really have a No1 stroke, resulting in the nickname “no-trick-pony”! Juggling with GCSEs I love to come and help out on poolside from time to time and for a couple of hours a week in the novices and improvers section. The kids’ attitudes are very focused and often inspiring, and it’s great to see them pursue their goals, whether it be a 5m badge or a regional qualifying time!

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