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Mini Water Adventurers Guided swimming session ideas! A page full of fun games & activities to take poolside with you!

12/10/2026

Swimming teachers—what is the hardest part of teaching your lessons at the moment? 💦

Choose the ONE that has the biggest impact on your teaching week:

⏳ Finding time to plan lessons
💡 Coming up with fresh, purposeful activities
👥 Meeting different abilities within one group
💛 Supporting nervous or reluctant swimmers
⚡ Managing behaviour and keeping swimmers engaged
👨‍👩‍👧 Working with parents and their expectations
🏊 Working with limited equipment or pool space
📈 Helping swimmers who seem stuck make progress
💬 Something else—tell me in the comments

If you have a moment, tell me what your choice looks like in a real lesson. I’d like to understand what’s making your job harder.

How many different ways do your swimmers move during a lesson? 💦On Wednesday’s More Ways to Move live, we explored this ...
11/10/2026

How many different ways do your swimmers move during a lesson? 💦

On Wednesday’s More Ways to Move live, we explored this through our Space & Monsters theme 👽

Collecting monster supplies, repairing Moonbeam Station and testing our Moon Skimmers gave swimmers reasons to reach, turn, balance, push, pull and travel.

A few things to think about:
⭐ Carrying a prop changes how a swimmer balances and moves.
⭐ Moving a target to the side can invite turning and reaching.
⭐ Learning to slow down, steer and stop deserves as much attention as travelling further.

Children need opportunities to explore what their bodies can do in water, try different approaches and make decisions about their movement.

For younger swimmers who still need buoyancy support, the Orca swim trainer can help make these opportunities more accessible, leaving their hands available to explore and interact with props, with appropriate teaching support and supervision.

Missed the live? You have just a few days left to watch the free replay.

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Want to bring the adventure into your lessons? SWIM Squad members can download and keep the activity cards, play mats, song sheets and supporting resources to use again and again.

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What’s one movement you’d like your swimmers to explore more often?

🍂 They don’t have to do what everyone else is doing to be part of what everyone else is doing.That matters when you have...
04/10/2026

🍂 They don’t have to do what everyone else is doing to be part of what everyone else is doing.

That matters when you have a nervous swimmer in a group.

My niche is working with children who are anxious or have had a difficult experience in previous swimming lessons. I spend a lot of time designing ways for them to participate alongside other swimmers.

Our Autumn Forest story gives everyone a shared purpose: join Olive and help the woodland animals.

Here are five ways that can support a nervous child within the group:

🍁 Join without being singled out.
🍁 Watch another swimmer before trying.
🍁 Make a useful contribution without a race or comparison.
🍁 Follow Olive’s familiar card and feather through the lesson.
🍁 Repeat a manageable action whilst others explore different challenges.

For example, everyone can help rebuild Hedgehog’s leaf bed. One swimmer pushes a nearby leaf with support; another transports leaves independently. Both contribute to the same story.

The purpose stays shared. The way each swimmer participates can change.

I’ve shared the practical breakdown with SWIM Squad members, including teacher invitations, what to observe and how these choices connect to the SWIM Blueprint.

What helps your nervous swimmers feel able to join the group?

30/09/2026

Do you fancy doing a teddy bear picnic theme in the water for the kids ?

What happens to the nervous swimmer when the rest of the group is ready to move on?Working with children who are nervous...
30/09/2026

What happens to the nervous swimmer when the rest of the group is ready to move on?

Working with children who are nervous—or who have had a difficult experience in previous swimming lessons—is my niche.

It’s why I spend so much time experimenting with lesson structures, designing resources and exploring different ways to invite movement.

I want these swimmers to have a meaningful place in the lesson. To participate with support, make choices and build trust at their own pace, whilst still being part of the group’s experience.

One activity can offer several ways in. The purpose stays the same; the support, movement and challenge change according to readiness.

🍂 Join me live tonight, when I’ll use Olive and the Autumn Forest to explore five reasons story-led lessons can help nervous swimmers participate.

We’ll look at how one shared adventure can offer different possibilities for different swimmers—and how this works in both 1:1 and group lessons.

You’ll leave with practical ideas to take poolside, using the thinking behind my SWIM Education Blueprint.

Swimming teachers: come along and bring your questions. What do your nervous swimmers find hardest about joining in?

24/09/2026

Changing an instruction in to an invitation in lessons.

🏴‍☠️ All aboard for tonight’s live!How do you take a huge theme like pirates and turn it into a swimming lesson that fee...
23/09/2026

🏴‍☠️ All aboard for tonight’s live!

How do you take a huge theme like pirates and turn it into a swimming lesson that feels connected—rather than five unrelated activities with pirate names?

Tonight, we’ll begin with a simple pirate brainstorm: characters, places, objects, problems and movements.

Then we’ll choose our ideas and build five progressive activities that flow together as one pirate adventure.

You can bring your own ideas and help shape the lesson as we plan it together.

The theme gives us the ingredients.
The journey turns them into a lesson.

Come and join me live tonight! 🦜💎🌊

What would have to feature in your pirate swimming lesson?

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19/09/2026

Don’t choose the swimming skill and then give it a themed name.

16/09/2026

A teddy bear can do much more than make a swimming lesson look fun!

14/09/2026

I will be going LIVE every Wednesday at 9pm - will you join me this week?

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