firstly, thank you for you wonderful ideas and support. We've had 3 lessons and DD is now all smiles and confidently gets into the water for her lesson,(though jumping in will take a bit longer) she's even looking forward to next week and wants to do the holiday programme.

We spent time talking of swimming and reading books (Swim little wombat swim being a favourite), watching the swimming and diving at the Olympics; and going along to the pool to watch her older cousin's class. And talking to the teacher of our concerns. We also gave her the choice of what she wanted to do. She still wanted to go to lessons.

First lesson back all ok till she went to get into the pool, so I got in with her for the start. Second lesson she let the teacher carry her in and by the end of that lesson you could tell that she had her confidence back. While she won't jump in the deep end, the teachers are understanding and getting her to slide instead, and we're all ok with that.