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Welcome to our Intro to Swim and Safety program!

We are thrilled that you have chosen FINS as your swim school! FINS is a locally owned, family-run business with a big passion for teaching water safety and developing a love for swimming. By giving the gift of swim lessons to your child, you have taken an amazing step forward in the fight against the drowning statistics. Did you know that drowning is the leading cause of accidental death in...Read More

Intro to Competitive Swim- At Home

Welcome to our final post in our ‘Welcome to FINS Intro to Competitive Swim ’ series. We hope that you have found these emails informative and helpful. Don’t forget, we love your feedback! Our goal at FINS is to keep parents informed about what their child is learning in class and to provide various helpful tips at FINS. As always, ALL FINS team members are happy to help answer questions and...Read More

Intro to Competitive Swim-Tools

We hope you are having a FINStastic day! You have been in the Intro to Competitive Swim lessons for weeks now and we hope your child is having a blast. We get questions all the time about equipment and tools needed for swim lessons. Today we are here to answer all of your questions about goggles, flippers and swim caps, oh my! Goggles: At this stage of swim lessons, most, if not all students...Read More

Intro to Competitive Swim- Parent Portal

We hope this email finds you well and that our weekly emails are answering all of your questions while also teaching you about things you didn’t even know to ask about! Our goal is to have every parent at FINS feeling very informed about what their child is learning, why it is important and how they can expect to see everything play out during swim lessons. Today’s blog post is going to divert...Read More

Intro to Competitive Swim-Advancing Skills

Congratulations! You’re rolling right along in our Intro to Competitive Swim program. We hope swimming is an activity that they (and you) look forward to each week.  Each lesson they are not only are they mastering new skills toward advanced water safety, but they are also learning advanced swim skills. The cool thing about swim lessons is that it is an activity they can enjoy for the rest of...Read More

Intro to Competitive Swim-Water Safety

By now, hopefully, you have had the chance to bring your child to Intro to Competitive Swim classes at least once and maybe even twice. We certainly hope they are having a great time and love coming back each week! We ALWAYS welcome feedback if there is anything you think would be helpful for us to know about your child, or even ways we can make the experience simpler or more pleasant for you...Read More

Welcome to our FINS Intro to Competitive Swim program!

We are thrilled that you have chosen FINS as your swim school! FINS is a locally owned, family-run business with a big passion for teaching water safety and developing a love for swimming. By giving the gift of swim lessons to your child, you have taken an amazing step forward in the fight against the drowning statistics. Did you know that drowning is the leading cause of accidental death in...Read More

Baby FINS-Practice at Home

Welcome to the final email in our ‘Welcome to our Baby FINS’ series. We hope that you have found these informative and helpful. Our goal at FINS is to keep parents informed about what they are learning in class and to provide various helpful tips. As always, ALL FINS team members are happy to help answer questions and address concerns as you have them. Keep reading below to learn Helpful Tips...Read More

Baby FINS- Parental Cues

We hope you are having a FINStastic day! You have been in swim lessons for weeks now and we hope you and your baby are having a blast together! In the 2nd email we sent (insert blog post here), we talked a lot about water safety and the skills you and your baby will practice in class that are safety focused.You have probably heard the instructor count with you to cue your baby by saying...Read More

Baby FINS- Parent Portal

We hope this email finds you well and that our weekly emails are answering all of your questions while also teaching you about things you didn’t even know to ask about! Our goal is to have every parent at FINS feeling very informed about what their baby is learning, why it is important and how they can expect to see everything play out during swim lessons.  Today’s blog post is going to divert...Read More