Esther Lauaki
Brimbank kids are thrilled to be back in the pool and learning to swim again.
Aqua Schools Keilor Park, which also has a school in Sunbury, welcomed kids back to swimming lessons this week.
As part of the state’s roadmap out of the pandemic, more restrictions were eased from Monday including reopening indoor pools for up to 20 swimmers at a time.
Aqua School, owned by Murat Binyazar and Emre Gul, offers beginners lessons and a raft of swim safe education programs in its 15 metre pool for about 400 children between three months and 12 years old.
Aqua Schools Keilor Park manager Estela Micallef said children were behind on their lessons and keen to return to the water.
“We finally have the green light to re-open and return to swimming lessons on Monday 9 November,” Ms Micallef said.
“We have had a great response from parents who are so happy that their kids will be back to learning to swim.
“There are a lot of unsupervised swimming environments that people will have access to when COVID opens up.
“We don’t simply teach kids how to swim, we teach them about how to get themselves out of a situation.
“Kids are going through a whole swimming and water safety program where we teach them about swimming at the beach, by themselves, with clothes on, swimming between the flags.
Ms Micallef said a stringent COVIDSafe plan is in place with strict hygiene measures, contact tracing and declaration forms.
“We want people to be confident in us that they can bring their kids back into swimming lessons safely,” she said.
“We are COVIDSafe and ensure all safety and hygiene procedures. All staff have completed infection control training.”
Esther Lauaki
