After receiving massive feedback, we would like to continue our support to STA members, swimming teachers and tutors from all awarding organisations to provide the opportunity to up-skill with our FREE and discounted webinars.
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| Date | Time | Subject | Delivered by | 1st June 2022 | 10:00am | Importance of Play:
This session is a basic insight into the strands of development and how play can boost learning. Including song and activity ideas. Cost: FREE |
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| 1st June 2022 | 1:30-2:30pm | Rethinking our teaching approaches from a contemporary perspective: (Session Three)
This series of webinars will introduce you to a contemporary area of motor learning that is focused on inclusion and the individual swimmer. The series will start from a logical position point discussing some of the theory which gives you an understanding of why there is a change of pedagogical lens. Throughout the series there will be practical examples, giving you the tools to embed these methods within your planning and teaching practice. Cost: FREE |
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| 7th June 2022 | 10:00am | Listening to Babies in Water:
The seminar focus will be to share water time from a baby’s perspective, ideal for all baby and preschool swimming teachers. Smiles and cries are the obvious signs that babies in classes are enjoying or not enjoying the water, but there are so many subtle cues to be aware of. All babies are different and will respond differently in the water, do you have all the knowledge tools to support your babies and parents? Cost: FREE |
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| 23rd June 2022 | 10:00am | Aquatic Reflex Awareness:
This webinar will look at how working with babies and children in the water offers an unique environment that opens opportunities for the body to move in ways that may not be possible on land, and positively aid in the transformation from reflex to functional movement…and some of the challenges you’ll see in older swimmers who still have reflex patterns and reactions active within their body. Cost: FREE |
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| 6th July 2022 | 10:30am | How Movement Underpins all Aspects of Learning for Babies and Children:
The webinar will build upon the STA’s Baby and Pre-Level 2 Child-Development Module and consider how physical literacy with gross and fine motor skills helps promotes all other areas of learning such as social and emotional development, cognitive function, and sensory integration. We will look at the importance of movement in babies and how swimming teachers can help lay down firm physical milestones that then help with the transition into toddlerhood and beyond. Cost: FREE |
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| 21st July 2022 | 10:00am | Floating and Co Swims:
This session is a recap on floating and co swim methods looking at what things may help and hinder such as effective communication and reflexes in play. Including song and activity ideas. Cost: FREE |
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| 22nd September 2022 | 10:00am | Rotation:
This session looks at the 3 main types of rotation. How to introduce and progress each into a safety skill and as an important foundation swim skill. Including song and activity ideas. Cost: FREE |
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| 10th November 2022 | 10:00am | Jumping In:
This session is an age appropriate progression pathway for jumping in. Incorporating other skills into the jump such as exits and balance. Including song and activity ideas. Cost: FREE |
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| 12th January 2023 | 10:00am | Transition to Independent Swimming:
This session is a run through of the propulsive strokes used at baby and pre-school with teaching points and tips and methods of transitioning to independence such as widening the gap. Including song and activity ideas. Cost: FREE |
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