Summertime is here and that means it’s time to hit the pool! Whether you’re lounging poolside or taking a dip to cool off, it’s important to protect your skin from the harmful effects of the sun. In this blog post, we’ll give you some tips on...
Welcome back, today’s core value is SAFETY. This one is simple, but so foundational. Safety is the biggest reason anyone learns to swim: to keep themselves safe, to keep their children safe, to be able to save others if something goes wrong in the water. While...
Our Senior Relationship Manager, Jacey Wood, wrote this blog. As a mom herself, one of her favorite things to do with her kids is reading! Reading is a wonderful way to start the conversation about swimming and swimming lessons. Below she shared 4 of her favorite read...
Welcome back to our Core Values Series! We are breaking down our core values to give you a better idea of the purpose behind Whatley Swim, or why we do what we do. We strive to incorporate these values into our biggest decisions down to our smallest ones. One thing we...
At Whatley Swim, one of the most important parts of being a great swim instructor has nothing to do with swimming and everything to do with connecting with our students. How can we build trust with them? Encourage them when they are scared or timid or feeling alone?...
From our end, we take things seriously. We work hard to maximize the time your child is in class with us by teaching engaging and fun lessons that build your children’s swimming skills. Our instructors are trained and prepare for each lesson by writing a lesson plan....
Last month, we talked about the techniques we use when teaching visual and aural learners, the first two letters in the VARK acronym. Make sure to check out that post here! Today we’re going to talk about read/write learners and kinesthetic learners. Read/write:...
The VARK model is a popular method used to categorize learning styles, and the acronym stands for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic. We recognize that not all of our students will fit neatly into one category, or that someone might have characteristics of...
Happy New Year! We all know that exercising more is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions. If it is one of yours, why not commit to giving yourself swim lessons with us this summer? We teach adults! Many of our adult clients register after watching their kids’...
Welcome back to our Core Values Series! We’re breaking down our core values to give you a better idea of the purpose behind Whatley Swim, or why we do what we do. We strive to incorporate these values into our biggest decisions down to our smallest ones. The core...
