{"id":16660,"date":"2022-07-18T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimway.co.uk\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=16660"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:51:08","slug":"overestimating-abilities","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.swimway.co.uk\/faq\/overestimating-abilities\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ: Overestimating Abilities When Booking Swimming Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Overestimating abilities when booking swimming lessons can cause many difficulties further down the line.  It could even result in losing out on a booking! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We take all new clients through a series of questions to find their SwimWay stage.  Alternatively, our clients will use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimway.co.uk\/find-your-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stage finder<\/a> on our website.  This helps ascertain what level the student is at.\u00a0 It is very important for us to ensure our 1:2 and small group lessons are suitably matched.\u00a0 Not only by age but by abilities too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimway.co.uk\/programmes\/\">The SwimWay Swimming Stages<\/a>\u00a0and awards are unique to SwimWay.\u00a0 They are created to complement our teaching methodology.\u00a0 It is important for students to be booked into the appropriate SwimWay Stage.\u00a0 Thus ensuring correct development of swimming skills.  It also helps to avoid mismatches in lessons.\u00a0 It is so important to be conservative and to avoid overestimating a student&#8217;s abilities. If you overstate, you may end up with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimway.co.uk\/faq\/faq-mismatches-in-1-to-2-lessons\/\">mismatched lesson<\/a>.  If a mismatched lesson is not manageable, we may have to leave one of the children from the class.  At this point our availability is usually extremely limited.  While we do everything we can to find alternatives, we may not be able to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/XH49k2\">reviews<\/a>\u00a0will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swimway\/reviews\">attest<\/a>\u00a0to how well our programme works when we book students into correctly matched lessons.  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