Horncastle Otters Swimming Club

01/11/2026

A postcard has arrived from the Grinch! 💚

Apparently he's leaving the mountain and heading to Horncastle for Christmas.

We wonder what mischief he has planned for our Otters this year.

We're not sure whether to be excited or worried... 🤔😂

01/11/2026

Welcome back to a new term, we hope you have had a great half term holiday.

Please note there will be no swimming on Sunday 8th November due to Remembrance Day and on Wednesday 11th November, as we are holding our AGM, this is your opportunity to get involved and help out with the running of the club. Horncastle Otters is run by volunteers and we are always looking for help, not just with teaching or being an in pool helper but with committee roles too.

If you feel you can give us some time to help support the club please come along to The Astro Bar, Horncastle Cricket Club at 7pm. If you are unable to attend but would still like to help them please speak with any of our teachers or committee members.

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15/10/2026

Wow! Our Swimmers are AMAZING our sponsored swim week has come to an end and they smashed the Channel Challenge. To France and Back is 42miles at the most narrow and our swimmers managed a fabulous 45 miles. We are so proud of all our swimmers for taking part and showing resilience and determination to achieve these distances. From Stage 1 to Stage 9 every single group took part and contributed and in our eyes are all Super Otters.

We would like to thank all our swimmers for taking part, parents and grandparents for helping recording the distances and our Otters teachers and helpers for supporting our swimmers in the pool. We can't wait to see what next years Sponsored Swim challenge will be.

15/10/2026

Hey everyone, Otto here! 🦦

I want to say a massive well done to all our swimmers who took part in the Swim the Channel challenge. You all did amazing, and I have been told by all the teachers that they are very proud of all of you.

Hip, Hip hooray for Team Otters GB ✨

13/10/2026

Well what can we say....our swimmers are doing brilliantly so far. We are two sessions in and one more to go, all our swimmers have shown great determination and are helping us to achieve our target. Just Wednesdays session to go to see if we can make it back to England.

11/10/2026

Our swimmers have started our Channel Challenge this morning and what can we say but WOW WOW WOW!! They have achieved some amazing distances already and we have still got 2 sessions to go. Lets see if we can get to France and back before the end of the week....
Thank you to our parent helpers this morning, we couldn't do it without you. If any parents are able to help us recording distances on Wednesday please let us know.

11/10/2026

We have received a postcard from Otto!🦦

11/10/2026

Today is the first day of our Channel Challenge week, all our swimmers will be undertaking a sponsored swim to try and swim the English Channel and back in our sessions this week. Wish them luck and if you can sponsor our swimmers please do.

10/10/2026

07/10/2026

Our swimmers have been taking part in fire drills in recent lessons. This is an important part of our lessons to ensure our swimmers know what to do in an emergency. We are very proud of our swimmers who have taken part so far. They have behaved calmly and followed instructions. Well done to all of them.