Swimming Stage 1 Completed

After completing 4 lessons of Stage 1, Ben has now been moved up to Stage 2. This basically means he can do all the basics in a pool, such as blow bubbles, have water poured over your head, use a ‘noodle’ to swim unaided.  Unfortunately, the Friday session that the boys go to doesn’t run […]

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Swimming Lessons

Just over a month ago, we took Ben and Aaron to Tavistock swimming pool, for a taster swimming lesson. It was only for 30 mins but we hoped they would be fine and we could get them to learn to swim.  They both enjoyed it, so we signed them up for weekly lessons, and they […]

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Bike Club

Ben has joined another club outside of School now, called Bike Club. It does exactly what the name suggests and is a Cycling club, whereby he has 5 sessions in the school grounds to help him get better at cycling. He has to take his bike and helmet for each session and they practice different manoeuvres. […]

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Yellow Belt

Ben has now got his yellow belt in Karate after only about 9 sessions! 😉 He had to go to a grading session on a Sunday morning and be put through the moves by another Sensei. He had a 45 minute refresher session before the actual grading, and then straight into that for another 45 […]

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Karate Update

Ben is doing really well at Karate and now has his yellow tag. He got this after his 6th lesson (along with a certificate), and he has now been booked in on the 26th April for grading for his Yellow Belt. His Sensei says he should pass this easily. 😉 Here is a video of […]

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