Waltham Tritons & Forest Swim School

Lessons and coached sessions:

Non-swimmers to competitive standard.

• 3 year olds to adult with specific sessions available for 11+ years.

Fees from £52 for a 13 week term.

Waltham Forest College pool and Ilford County High School. Monday, Wednesday and Sunday evenings.

Contact Karen 020 8521 7192 or Jackie 07930 752 223 or info@forestswimschool.co.uk

A lifesaving lift to safety

For Alexandra's suspected spinal injury, the team training as pool lifeguards had to work very carefully together to get her out of the water. Almal, Anthony, Carrie-Ann, Danielle, Jamie and Joe all know that a false move could paralyse her for life.

Fortunately, Alexandra was only involved in roleplay as part of our 12 week intensive RLSS National Pool Lifeguard Award Seventh Edition course.

With instruction in both the classroom and the college swimming pool, the course is preparing us for every eventuality, and we each take it in turns to be the 'victim', trusting the others to 'save' us under the careful eye and instruction of our tutor.

Alexandra says, "This course is fun because we get to do a lot of swimming and learning First Aid isn't as hard as it looks!"

It's a Knockout

It was a tense fight to the final for Cem and Tiom in the End of Term Pool competition.


After a couple of hours of constant play in the Student Common Room, the two were on cue for the big break to a cash prize.


At the same time as the knockout, the stopwatch was going to try to discover who could make the quickest break.





Erdam, from Business and IT, was eventually crowned for the quickest break, whilst the main knockout battle continued.




Finally the first to pot the black was Tiom, a General Pathway student, who with a smug smile and contented nod walked off with his well-earned £38 top prize.