Puddle Ducks South West London

💦 Here's a few bits of advice if you are worried about whether your baby is fit to go swimming or not:
Babies can swim any time before or after their immunisations.
If your baby has a mild cold/runny nose, there is no reason to keep them away... from the pool but if they are running a temperature it’s probably wise to keep them off swimming.
If your baby is suffering from diarrhoea they must stay away from a pool for two weeks - this is a health and safety advisory from the Public Health Department and applies to all swimming lessons across the UK.
💦 Also, try a few preventative actions too:
Drying your baby’s ears properly can prevent ear infections. You can dry the ear canal by gently tipping the head to one side and then the other to allow natural drainage.
Whilst having wet hair in the outside won’t give you a cold, it isn’t a very nice feeling, so think about bringing a hat, along with warm clothing for when you leave the pool after your lesson.
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Say hello 👋 to Swim Teachers Katie and Sara!!
Katie and Sara make up our Wandsworth team who teach Baby and Pre-School classes at our pool at Riversdale Primary School. For more information on this swim venue, see here - https://buff.ly/2DMlsTZ
Hope to see you soon for a splashtastic time!! 💦

Are you stumped about where to take the family on holiday this year 🤔. We've found this great list from Travel Loving Family which should help give you some inspiration and help you to #SwimIntoSummer! Check it out - https://buff.ly/2YcyeCZ
If you've got any other great suggestions, we'd love to hear from you - comment below 👇!

Maybe not such an obvious one when your little one is surrounded by water 💦 but if you're swimming outdoors - in the sea or at an outdoor pool - and it is a warm, sunny day 🌞, you need to make sure you all keep hydrated 🥛
Keep safe and keep swimming! 🚩 ⚠️ 👍

Both you and your little one can have great fun swimming but there’s also plenty of advantages to taking swimming lessons too.
💦 It helps your baby build confidence in the water, and you too if you lack water-confidence.
💦 The bonding experience is second-to-none – there is lots of eye contact and skin-to-skin, strengthening the wonderful bond between parent and child.
... 💦 Swimming is the only time your baby can feel truly independent.
💦 Swimming gives your baby the opportunity to develop higher brain functions, co-ordination and core muscle development, earlier than their non-swimming peers.
💦 Regular swimming can help improve eating and sleeping patterns.
💦 Encouraging a baby to take regular exercise, such as swimming, will make it easier to establish a healthy lifestyle in the future.
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A family holiday abroad can be a really wonderful experience - showing the children somewhere new, taking a break from life back home and, our priority of course, splashing around in a new pool or even the sea! 💦🌊
But taking the whole family away on a trip abroad can start to get a bit of a pricey 💰affair, especially when your little ones no longer get their free seats on the plane! We spotted this great blog post from Wander Mum - Family Travel Blog with some really useful tips on keeping the costs down - https://buff.ly/2vGgCTD
Happy holidaying!! 😊 🌞 💦

👋 Meet Swim Teacher Katie!
The bank holiday has got Katie thinking about planning for a summer ☀️ in the water 💦 and she's come up with her top tips for keeping our little ones safe and happy wherever you may be swimming this summer 👍
Keep safe and keep swimming! #SwimIntoSummer

Just a little reminder that there are no swimming classes today and our office will be closed. We hope you have a lovely Bank Holiday Monday! 💦

Puddle Ducks is built on a very simple premise, summed up in our Mission Statement. The business was founded on a unique ethos of bonding and confidence for parent and child combined with a clear understanding of child development from birth.
Puddle Ducks has built a national programme of baby swimming that leads naturally to graceful and efficient swimming. We are committed to ensuring this programme remains relevant, innovative and fun. To this end, our programmes are conti...nually developed supported by experts in child psychology, child development and midwifery.
Our passion and expertise for teaching swimming in a fun and individually tailored way is at the heart of everything we do.
Teaching independent swimming from birth. That's the Puddle Ducks' difference!
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Here's another great swimming pool game you can play with all the family 👍 - great for when you are on your holidays 🌞 or just at your local pool 💦! Ready steady go!!
What games do you love to play in the pool with your little ones and the rest of the family - do you have any tried and tested activities that you know will keep them amused? We'd love to hear your suggestions - comment below 👇 and we can all give them a try next time we're out for a swim! 💦

There's a pool near YOU! 💦
Are you thinking about swimming lessons for your little one but not sure where you might be able to do them? Well, there may be a Puddle Ducks' pool closer than you think!
Puddle Ducks SW London holds swimming lessons in Richmond, Tooting, Wandsworth, Southfields, Walton-on-Thames and Hounslow for both our Baby and Pre-school classes and our Swim Academy classes.
... Take a look at our website to find out more about our pools and our classes - https://www.puddleducks.com/…/south-wes t-…/our-pools-classes
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Meet Swim Teachers Lauren and Maggie 👋, aka our Walton-on-Thames team!
We teach baby and pre-School classes at Whiteley Village - for more information on this swim venue, take a look here https://www.puddleducks.com/…/our-pools -cl…/whiteley-village
If you have any other questions about this, or any of any swimming venues, just let us know! 💦

It's your last day to enter our competition today so if you haven't got round to entering yet, like this post and comment #SwimIntoSummer for your chance of winning.
We'll be picking and contacting the winner and runners up over the weekend and we will announce the results next week on here.
Good luck!! 🤞

Pyjama week is coming soon! Grab your funkiest pj's and we will see you in the pool for fun, games and most importantly life saving and water safety practice! 13th - 19th May 2019 in both our Baby/Preschool and Swim Academy classes.

Are you still thinking about whether to take the plunge and take your little one abroad this year on holiday ✈️ or has just the thought it got you breaking out in a cold sweat, let alone actually doing it? 😳
Here at Puddle Ducks SW London HQ, we know how you feel - we've all had varying levels of success with holidays abroad with our babies and toddlers but what we all agree on is that with a little bit of planning beforehand and a few lowered expectations (!) it really doesn...'t need to be a scary or stressful experience 😊.
And as always, we want to give you a helping hand! We've found this fantastic blog from Oliver's Travels with their super helpful and insightful top 10 tips for taking a toddler abroad following a survey they carried out with 1500 parents about their holidaying experiences - https://buff.ly/2vufF0w
Helping you and your family make memories this summer...that's the Puddle Ducks' difference! 🌞 💦 👍
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Exclusively for those progressing through Little Dippers, our Dippers and Dabblers classes are all about preparing our little swimmers for the day they go into the water without their adult, either in our Swim Academy or with primary school or another provider 💦
The beauty of our programme is its adaptability; we can see a three year old with no swimming experience entering our Little Dippers programme and another three year old in Dabblers, achieving their 10m badge, and eve...rything in between! In these levels, our focus is on helping children realise their swimming potential, whilst teaching personal survival skills to them 💦
Our Dippers & Dabblers are fun-loving, strong-swimming, ever-ready little superstars – just stand back when they jump in or you’re getting soaked! 💦💦💦
That's the Puddle Ducks' difference!
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Wild, or outdoor, swimming is becoming a more and more popular past time and you can see why when there are many stunning natural sites to be found right here in Surrey like Frensham Ponds in Farnham.
If you fancy joining in and are taking the kids with you, it's worthwhile doing a little planning beforehand to ensure that you all keep safe whilst swimming outdoors - take a look at this great checklist put together by the Outdoor Swimming Society - https://buff.ly/2VAmhcs
Remember, with any swimming activity for the kids, it's safety first as it's just not worth the risk 🚩 ⚠️ 👍

📢 Calling all swimming superstars!! 🌟🌟🌟
Has your little one been working hard and mastering diving down 💦 to collect objects? Such a great milestone plus this skill is so easy to incorporate into your family swimming sessions outside of lessons as it is so much fun 👍!
We'd love to know if your little one has reached this milestone recently - let us know in the comments below or better still, add a photo 📸 so we can add your little swimmer to our ⭐️ hall of fame ⭐️ (aka our 'Swimmers' highlight on our profile page!)

Did you know that there used to be 67 lidos in London, 21 of which were in South London, making our part of the world truly the land of the lido! 💦
We're now down to just 4, so why not set a challenge to try and visit them all this summer with the family? Take a look here to see where you can find them - https://buff.ly/2vdzBEY
Now the weather is being a little kinder to us, who needs to go abroad when we have fantastic outdoor swimming spots right on our doorstep! 🌞💦 👍

We have been going to Puddle Ducks for over 6 months now and I could not be happier.

My little one is 1 year old now and loves being in the water.

We started off in Balham Leisure Centre with Pete on Wednesdays which was really fun and we did catch up lessons on Saturdays in Broadwater with Marian. Both places are good, the latter one is better as the changing facilities are simpler and more baby friendly.

We now go on Tuesdays to Broadwater school and our new teacher, Leanne, is also lovely. All three swimming instructors we have had are really good, they pay attention to you and your little one and the groups are a good size.

Happy customers all around and we will definitely continue with them for a few more years.

We have been at puddle ducks since my little boy was 6 weeks old (now 10month) he loves it so much and we have been to two different franchises are both have been super.

Took our 9 week old daughter to her first class today & she loved it! Excellent teachers & nice small class size, would highly recommend this!

Quality teaching with lots of fun, rhymes and splashing for the little ones. We are really happy with the lessons and the results so far - my little one has great water confidence. Thank you

My kids, Aleksander and Kornelia love it, they can't wait to the next lesson :) we are so happy they can learn from the best teachers :) xxx