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Sholfins Swim School

sholfins swim school

Bromsgrove

Sholfins Swim School CIC is a not-for-profit company born from a passion and love for swimming. We are extremely passionate about our community. Our aim is to try and remove as many barriers as possible, preventing our community of Redditch from learning to swim. The team at Sholfins recognise that due to the pandemic there has been a huge impact on children having access to water in their early years. A number of primary/middle schools have also been unable to provide this life skill to their pupils prior to the pandemic for several different reasons, therefore, falling short of the national curriculum requirements, through no fault of their own. Swimming and water safety has been a statutory element of the national curriculum for physical education in England since 1994. This means that every 11-year-old child should leave primary/middle school with the skills to keep themselves safe. Swimming lessons provide all children with vital skills to help with survival and this is no different for children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND). By 2025, over 780,000 children with SEND will be in the education system. However, inequalities in the ability of schools and teachers to offer high quality opportunities for them to participate in PE, School Sport or Physical Activity still exist, with disabled young people twice as likely to be physically inactive as non-disabled people. The focus on the new revised Ofsted inspection framework is also an area of consideration for schools to bare in mind. At Sholfins we believe everyone should have the opportunity to learn to swim. All of our instructors are Level 2, Swim England qualified and have RLSS Lifeguard, First Aid and Safeguarding Qualifications. The team are passionate about teaching and ensure that each child is given the support and encouragement to become water confident no matter what age. We are registered with Swim England and follow the learn to swim programme and the School Swimming and Water Safety charter.

Waterworld Diving Centre

waterworld diving centre

Waterworld is a family run business situated in the beautiful Maharees, a peninsula, on the Dingle peninsula Co Kerry. We are surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic ocean. Ronnie and Pat Fitzgibbon are Ireland’s most qualified and experienced dive operators. They began the business in 1963 and have enjoyed taking care of divers and water-sports enthusiast ever since. They have now passed the mantle over to their children who are all highly qualified in there own fields and are as eager to pass on their love of the ocean to all they meet, as their parent before them. From years of experience, they know that water enthusiast require good water experiences, comfortable accommodation, good food, but above all, good fun and old fashioned Irish hospitality – at an affordable price. Waterworld’s Harbour House, a hidden treasure of the Dingle Peninsula, has been carefully planned and has developed into Ireland’s all round water sports – all under one roof. Thirty metres from the water’s edge, at the best dive and surf location in Ireland – beauty’s home! “The Maharees” on the Dingle Peninsula in Co. Kerry. Waterworld was Ireland’s first 5 Star Gold Palm Instructor Development Centre and Ireland’s first National Geographic Dive Centre and has won several industry awards, including PADI’s Education Award, Environmental Award and PADI Certificate of Recognition for Excellence. Waterworld’s slogan is “Come as a stranger, leave as a friend”.