Swim teacher wins award for helping young swimmers conquer their fears
Lourita Pusey (49) a swimming teacher at Puddle Ducks South London, has been awarded their Local Star Teacher award for a second time, due to her passion for supporting local young swimmers to overcome their fears and build confidence in water.
The Local Star Teacher award is presented to an inspirational individual who excels in teaching young children and babies to swim and receives glowing reviews from the parents and children they teach. Since joining the Puddle Ducks team six years ago, Lourita has been crowned Star Teacher once before, and it has been her calm and reassuring nature that has made her so popular with the little swimmers she teachers and parents alike.
The winning nomination was from Richard, whose son Adam swims with Lourita at Latchmere Leisure Centre in the Baby & Pre-School programme. Richard commented: “We would love for Lourita to win the Star Teacher award as she was extremely encouraging and reassuring with our son who had such a great fear of going underwater. Thank you, Lourita, for helping him overcome this fear”.
The winner of the award was chosen by Amandeep Kaur, Director of Events at Heston Hyde Hotel in Hounslow, who commented: “I loved reading all the wonderful nominations that were sent in, but the reason why I chose this one is because as a child, and still as an adult, I have a fear of going underwater, and for little ones I can only imagine that fear being ten times greater! Lourita was able to put a nervous child at ease and made him feel like he had nothing to be scared about. Congratulations Lourita!”.
Lourita, who lives in Wandsworth, trained first as a Baby & Pre-School teacher and then as a Swim Academy teacher. For the last 18 months she has been working as a senior teacher supporting new teachers on their training journey with Puddle Ducks. She commented: "What I love about my job is seeing a child overcome their fear of the water and develop into a fantastic swimmer. It brings me so much joy. I am thrilled to have won this award again!”.
To find out more about Puddle Ducks South London and the baby and child swimming lessons they provide across the local area, please call 0208 546 8470 or visit https://www.puddleducks.com/local-teams/south-west-london