Dear Parents/Caregivers
Swimming at Aqua Gym
We are really looking forward to the swimming lessons at Aqua Gym that start Monday 13th May.
Please make sure that your child has a separate named swimming bag to keep all their swimming belongings in. Over the weekend, we would appreciate you taking the time to check your child’s uniform, towel, togs, swimming cap and bags are all clearly named. As you can appreciate, it would be quite challenging to find the owners of unnamed clothing when taking 97 children swimming.
Reminder: Aqua Gym requires ALL children to wear a swimming cap for their lessons and the children will be required to wear a suitable swimming costume: either shorts or togs. Please no bikinis. If you have any spare swimming caps that you are happy to loan us, please send them to school on Monday for us to use for any students that don’t have a cap.
We recommend you packing a few extra items in their lunch box too as they will no doubt have a greater appetite when swimming everyday.
Thank you to the wonderful parents who have kindly offered to help us at the pool.
For parent helpers:
Thank you so much for offering to be a parent helper. Here is the timetable for the week.
Expectations of parent helpers:
Please be at school by 8.50am to leave on the bus at 9am for the first group of swimmers. If you are unable to parent help on your given day, can you please email Kate or Rowe as soon as possible so we can organise another parent helper.
Your role is to be an extra pair of hands to help supervise children on the bus and at the pool. As a parent helper, you will be helping out at the pool until the last group of swimmers has finished which is 12pm.
At the pool during changing times, please check that all children have their belongings in their swim bag and they will need to bring these out from the changing rooms and put them into the cubbies by the pool.
Please could you assist children with putting on swim caps before their lesson.
At the end of the swimming lesson, the children will change independently and we would love for you to help the children put on shoes and socks and check the changing rooms are clear of belongings.`
Monday 13th | Tuesday 14th | Wednesday 15th | Thursday 16th | Friday 17th |
Emily Gray Carolyn Aitken Bel Moneypenny Jody Smith (all able to help if possible for the first session) | Sarah Henderson Jaana Aramowicz | Bridget Clayton Olivia Grantham | Justine Eade Rachel Reedy | Kate McDonald Jacqui Radford |
Reserve: n/a - we have enough | Justine Eade | Nathalie Doering | Olivia Grantham | Nathalie Doering |
Monday 20th | Tuesday 21st | Wednesday 22nd | Thursday 23rd | Friday 24th |
NO Swimming Staff Only Day | Justine Eade Jaana Aramowicz | Nathalie Doering Nicola Reddecliffe | Rachel Reedy Olivia Grantham | Kate McDonald Jacqui Radford |
Reserve: | Nathalie Doering | Kelly- Anne Bullen | Justine Eade | Tracy Roberts |
Have a wonderful week ahead
Kind regards
Kowhai Teaching Team
Paulette, Nick, Kate and Rowe