We’re Swim England Swim School of the Year Runner Up!

Swim School Co-ordinator and Owner Tom looks back at a very successful year and looks ahead to what’s next.

We are delighted to announce Glover’s Swim School are the 2019 Swim England Swim School of the Year runners up. This a huge achievement and a reflection of all the hard work from everyone on the team, and especially our amazing teachers who are so passionate about delivering successful, rewarding and fun swimming lessons. 

The Glovers team headed down to Birmingham on the 18th November to the Swim England Teaching and Education Awards ceremony which recognises the very best of the swimming workforce in England. 

The evening kicked off with an introduction by CEO of Swim England Jane Nickerson, followed by a Q&A with European and Commonwealth games medallist Freya Anderson and World Championship gold medallist Luke Greenbank. It was intriguing to learn about how both swimmers started out on their swimming journey as youngsters and how their early positive experience in swimming lessons has helped them to follow the path to competitive swimming at the highest level. Creating a positive, fun learning environment for all of our swimmers is something we’ve always focused on. It’s how we ensure they continue to enjoy swimming for years to come. 

Top two swim schools

The awards were then announced for various categories including Swimming Teacher of the Year, Tutor of the Year, and Training Provider of the Year. All the nominees were remarkable people whose hard work is making a big, positive difference to the swimming industry. We certainly felt honoured to share the experience with these people on a memorable night. 

Congratulations to Aqua Aims who were the winners of the Swim School of the Year award. We had the pleasure of meeting owners Carol and Brad who were both lovely people and thoroughly deserving of the prize. Although we didn’t win on the night, it was no shame in being runners up to these guys who have done some fantastic things with their swim school. 

Success for friends of Glover’s

A big well done to Carolyn Dawe who took the Tutor of the Year award. Carolyn is a friend of Glover’s who helped Jess achieve her level 2 qualification. It’s fair to say Carolyn had a really positive impact on developing Jess into the fantastic teacher she is today.

Well done also to Alex Barrett who was nominated for the Trainee Tutor of the Year and delivered a staff training workshop at Glover’s earlier in the year. 

Not only was our swim school the national runner up; we also had our teacher Georgia Barton nominated in the top 30 in the country. Anyone who knows Georgia or has their child taught by her will know she is more than deserving of the nomination – she is one of our longest standing teachers and absolutely loves what she does. Her standards of teaching are incredibly high and – most importantly - all the kids love her. Well done Georgia! We are lucky (and very proud) to have you. 

It’s fair to say that we all had a great night and a great year. To be one of the UK’s top two swim schools is something we are all incredibly proud. I’d like to thank the whole team whose togetherness and understanding of what we aim to deliver at Glover’s is the reason we have got to where we are. I’d also like to thank our customers past and present – because we wouldn’t be here without you. 

Of course, we know that you can never stand still. So in 2020 we will be striving to improve our standards yet again and we’ve got some exciting developments planned. More on those soon…

Top row (Left to Right): Liam, Jake, Kat, Diane, Paula, Susan, Ebony. Bottom row (Left to Right): Meg, Mel, Evie, Katie, Jess, Tom, Martin.