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Keep kids swimming throughout winter
According to Royal Life Saving, almost a third of all drowning deaths of children under five occur in autumn and winter.
During summer children are keen to participate in swimming activities and frequently practice their aquatic survival skills outside of lessons without even realising. This additional practice is often very noticeable when children return to lessons showing progression.
However when the temperatures start to drop, the idea of swimming and lessons often loses its appeal.
It is important to remember that taking extended breaks where children aren’t swimming at all can set them back and when they eventually do return to the water after weeks or months they will have a LOT of catching up to do.
A key factor of how we learn – especially in children – is through repetition. Breaking this pattern could see children losing the skills they once had and spending a longer time in a level reacquiring those skills. Make sure you’re continuing your children’s swimming lessons to ensure time spent previously learning isn’t wasted.
When children have had an extended absence from the water or lessons we often see a decrease in retention of skills. Continuing swimming lessons throughout winter will allow them to continue learning and also help them to develop skills that will enhance their aquatic survival and safety in and around water.
Call 1800 543 779 or email [email protected] to enrol your child into our accelerated survival program or if they are an existing student they might benefit from an intensive week of lessons delivered throughout the school holidays to enhance their water safety.

Keep kids swimming throughout winter

According to Royal Life Saving, almost a third of all drowning deaths of children under five occur in autumn and winter.

During summer children are keen to participate in swimming activities and frequently practice their aquatic survival skills outside of lessons without even realising. This additional practice is often very noticeable when children return to lessons showing progression.

However when the temperatures start to drop, the idea of swimming and lessons often loses its appeal.

It is important to remember that taking extended breaks where children aren’t swimming at all can set them back and when they eventually do return to the water after weeks or months they will have a LOT of catching up to do.

A key factor of how we learn – especially in children – is through repetition. Breaking this pattern could see children losing the skills they once had and spending a longer time in a level reacquiring those skills. Make sure you’re continuing your children’s swimming lessons to ensure time spent previously learning isn’t wasted.

When children have had an extended absence from the water or lessons we often see a decrease in retention of skills. Continuing swimming lessons throughout winter will allow them to continue learning and also help them to develop skills that will enhance their aquatic survival and safety in and around water.

Call 1800 543 779 or email [email protected] to enrol your child into our accelerated survival program or if they are an existing student they might benefit from an intensive week of lessons delivered throughout the school holidays to enhance their water safety.

Children under five are most at risk of drowning, with an average of 23 deaths and 183 hospitalisations annually across Australia.

“Most times we think, 'this won't happen to me'. We should not have that attitude. This can happen to anyone. Particularly at the young age group of zero to five, all you need is momentary loss of supervision,” says Dr SV Soundappan, a trauma surgeon at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/en/podcast-episode/raising-your-kids-in-australia-heres-why-teaching-them-to-swim-is-vital/qjk4vaqmc

Raising your kids in Australia? Here’s why teaching them how to swim is vital Raising your kids in Australia? Here’s why teaching them how to swim is vital

"Toddlers are curious and increasingly mobile but lack an understanding of water-related hazards, making them vulnerable to drowning in and around the home, particularly in private swimming pools and dams on rural properties. The drowning rate triples after a child’s first birthday, with the rate peaking at one year of age. 42% of all non-fatal drowning incidents occur in children aged 0-4 years" Souce: Australian Water Safety Council

"Toddlers are curious and increasingly mobile but lack an understanding of water-related hazards, making them vulnerable to drowning in and around the home, particularly in private swimming pools and dams on rural properties. The drowning rate triples after a child’s first birthday, with the rate peaking at one year of age. 42% of all non-fatal drowning incidents occur in children aged 0-4 years" Australian Water Safety Council

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KASS deliver Australia's safest, most effective, accelerated aquatic survival program for non verbal infants and young children.
We teach children aquatic survival skills not just water familiarisation

Survival Lessons
Children from 6 months old learn vital swimming skills to save themselves.

Transitional Lessons
Designed to help with the step between survival lessons and stroke lessons.

Stroke Lessons
Improve your child’s swimming confidence and competence.

This Summer, Randwick City Council and Waverley Council in partnership with the UNSW Beach Research Group have launched ‘Float to Survive’ campaign to help reduce national drownings.

Float to Survive promotes floating as the best chance of survival for swimmers who get into trouble in the water.

“Our Float to Survive message is that if you can master the skill of floating, even if you are not a good swimmer, you are more likely to survive and be rescued,” Dylan Parker - Mayor of Randwick Mayor of Randwick said

Bruce Hopkins coordinator, Waverley Council Lifeguard Service, said learning how to float is easier than learning how to swim and “could be the difference between life and death”.

At KASS, Back Floating is a core foundational skill we teach as part of our survival program. We advocate back floating could save a child's life. It enables a child to remain buoyant at the water’s surface, which allows them to maintain an effective body position for breathing and breathing means life.

Reach out to your local KASS Franchise to equip your child with vital life saving skills today.
Kids Aquatic Survival School Dingley Village
Kids Aquatic Survival School Croydon
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KASS deliver Australia's safest, most effective, accelerated aquatic survival program for non verbal infants and young children.
We teach children aquatic survival skills not just water familiarisation

Survival Lessons
Children from 6 months old learn vital swimming skills to save themselves.

Transitional Lessons
Designed to help with the step between survival lessons and stroke lessons.

Stroke Lessons
Improve your child’s swimming confidence and competence.

KASS Croydon 0400 949 389
Float to Survive

Just say no to children's floaties. Children wearing floaties are rewarded with the perceived ability of being able to swim, breath and have fun. Take away the floaties and they remember the position they were successfully swimming in, unfortunately this is the perfect drowning position.
KASS teaches children skills to survive in the event they fall into water, we never use floaties.

KASS Croydon - 0400 949 389

Swim - Float - Survive

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Kids Aquatic Survival School KASS deliver Australia's safest, most effective, accelerated aquatic survival program for non verbal infants and young children. Our program focuses on aquatic survival skills targeted to children aged 6 months to 6 years. The Survival skills are designed to form a layer of protection in the prevent...