End of Term 3 2020 information

End of term 3 information Hi lovely Sea Turtle familiesWow, this term has flown by! It has felt very disrupted to me as I have missed so many lessons due to illness. Apologies and thank you to everyone for your understanding. Thank you too, to Abigail, Liz and Fi for coming to the rescue, often at short notice.Term 4 EnrolmentsYou might have noticed I don’t have the normal re-enrolment sheet in the change room this term.

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Term 1 2020 Newsletter – Covid-19, Certificates, T2 enrolments, water safety

Dear Sea Turtle families, Firstly, thank you once again for your loyalty and support of our little swim school. It is wonderful to see whole families start and complete their early swimming journey here. Plus, most of the new enquiries I get start with “you have been recommended” which is hugely flattering. So, from us all, thank you! Covid-19 Virus I wanted to assure you that I am closely monitoring all available information regarding how

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Hi everyone. I can’t get my head around the fact that we have already had 7 weeks of the first term. I just can’t keep up! Thank you so much for parking so beautifully. I really, really do appreciate it! As you know, it’s been a bit of a whirlwind. Fi had to take family leave, we had a trainee teacher in the water, we welcomed Megan as our relief teacher, and now we will

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Term 2 2018 Info – including Toastees orders

Hi everyone! Thank you to everyone for your support over the years. We celebrated our third birthday during the holidays, I can’t believe it! There wasn’t much time for parties though – look at the photo to see what it looked like! About a week before term 1 ended we realised we had a major leak, so poor Mike spent a lot of the break digging! A pipe was broken, but it is mended now,

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Term 4 2017 information and summer holiday program survey

Hi everybody I hope everybody enjoyed their water safety lesson and learnt something from it. What I have learnt is I think I need to run more lessons without goggles! It is quite amazing how kids forget everything they know when they are faced with trying to swim without goggles. I can’t emphasise enough how important it is for kids to experience the water without their goggles – this could quite literally save their lives

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Term 2 2017 Newsletter

Hi everyone! I do apologise for the delay in getting this newsletter out to you. I seem to be in the water so much that I never get the time to catch up on my admin (which is my least favourite bit anyway!!). Firstly, we have been asked by Royal Lifesaving, who administer the Swim and Survive Program (basically the curriculum we use) to ask you guys to complete a short survey to make sure

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Term 4 2016 Newsletter

Hi everyone. Welcome back to the busiest term that we have had at Sea Turtle Swim School since we opened! I am proud to say that in the 19 months since we opened we have achieved the following: A gold medal from the Spa and Pool Association for the design and construction of the pool; A new roof and sides over the pool (those guys that have been with me since day one – do

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Term 3 2016 Updates and Newsletter

Hi everyone! Welcome back to our existing students and a warm welcome to our new students, too! Term 3 brings about a few changes. Firstly, I am very proud to announce that I won the WA Austswim Teacher of Swimming and Water Safety Award 2016 at the recent Austswim Conference. A huge thank you to the families that nominated me – I was absolutely blown away and very proud to win. I will now represent

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Catch ups and Term 3 Re-enrolment information

Hi everyone It’s week 9 already, which means I am in the full swing of re-enrolments for Term 3. If you have not already let me know your plans for next term, please do so urgently. If you are planning to take a break from swimming, please let me know if you want to go on the waiting list for term 4. Please note though that I may not be able to fit you back

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Term 2 2016 Newsletter

Hi everyone. Wow, I can’t quite believe that we are half way through this term already! That makes next week SURVIVAL WEEK. I will be covering river and inland water safety this term. So, please make sure that children aged below 7 are wearing t-shirts over their bathers, and those 7 and above wear either shorts and a t-shirt or something like PJs. Please note no goggles are worn in this lesson. Many children are very

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