Summer Meek
Bristol,South Gloucestershire
Summary
I have experience primarily in swimming teaching which has given me a large array of transferrable skills including; organisation, planning, time management, confidence, teaching and well-being support. I am hoping to go to Bath Spa University to study psychology and ideally want to pursue a career within education or psychology. I love to help others and am good at communicating with a team, whilst simultaneously being a hardworking and determined individual.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Rookie Lifeguard Instructor
Circadian Trust
Bristol, South Gloucestershire
09.2025 - Current
- Maintained first aid training, ensuring I teach the most up to date version of rescues.
- Maintained participants' safety through constant supervision and alertness.
- Utilised a range of RLSS resources along with creating my own resources to help maintain pupils' engagement and ensuring that they are receiving teaching of a high standard.
- Organised equipment ensuring that all resources required are out prior to the lesson beginning.
- Effectively teaching children vital skills that they could use to keep both themselves safe or to help save someone else in an emergency.
- Supporting students with their mental well-being, making them feel seen and helping them to overcome challenges that may impact their learning.
- Managed behavior and challenged bullying in lessons helping to provide an inclusive environment in which everyone has equal opportunities and is treated fairly and with respect.
- Completed the rookie syllabus myself so I understood exactly what skills were required and utilised how I was taught these skills, adapting this to those with educational needs.
- Maintained my fitness to ensure I have the ability to both demonstrate skills effectively and be able to respond promptly if a participant was to get into difficulty.
Swim Teacher
Sport Education
Bath, Bath and North East Somerset
09.2025 - Current
- Delivered lessons appropriate for the swimmers' ability.
- Created flexible lesson plans that can be adjusted to the swimmers' needs and goals.
- Helped nervous swimmers' to feel more confident in the water.
- Communicated between colleagues, parents and children effectively to ensure we are all working towards achieving the same goal.
Swim Teacher
Circadian Trust
Bristol, South Gloucestershire
01.2025 - Current
- Prepared and delivered lessons that accommodate for students of varying abilities, ages and additional needs.
- Organised equipment ensuring that everything that I need is easily accessible and is not going to pose a safety risk to swimmers'.
- Effectively carried out a warm up and cool down to reduce the risk of injury and keep participants engaged.
- Analysed swimmers' strokes in order for me to identify any areas that need improvement, which I have then provided to swimmers' in a way that makes them wanting to achieve their very best by using positive reinforcement along with elements of their stroke they could work on.
- Taught children about water safety, which helps them to be safe not only in the swimming pool, but also in open water.
- Incorporating fun and engaging games and challenges into lessons whilst ensuring safety of swimmers at all times.
- Effectively communicating to both adults and children and adapting this for those with additional needs, creating an inclusive environment where everyone understands what the task is.
- Managed challenging behavior of children, ensuring that everyone is able to reach their full potential and are not being distracted by others misbehaving, keeping the class calm and regulated.
- Believing in swimmer's and helping them to believe in themselves to help them to perform at their very best.
- Helped anxious swimmers' become more confident in the water and overcome phobias of the water by providing them support and meeting them where they are at to help them progress without feeling pressured.
- Built strong relationships with nervous swimmers helping them to trust me to keep them safe and feel able to achieve their best.
- Frequently assessed children, so I knew exactly what each swimmer needed to work on and how I could embed drills into my sessions to help them to achieve their goal of progressing to the next swim stage.
- Utilised feedback from swimmers' and their carers on how I can improve swimming lessons for each swimmer individually.
- Reviewed my lessons and reflected on how I could enhance my performance within the job.
Volunteer Lifesaving Instructor
Keynsham Lifesaving Club
Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset
09.2024 - Current
- Frequently train myself to ensure my training is up to date and to ensure my demonstrations are delivered well
- Communicate between a range of different age groups and students of differing needs including; down syndrome, autism, ADHD and those with anxiety.
- Help to run fundraising events including, bag packs, raffles and stalls at community events to raise money for the club.
- Delivered a speech at the keynsham town council to collect a grant for the club.
- Embodied the RLSS mascot, raising water safety awareness at local community events and on social media.
Volunteering Work Experience - Catering Assistant
Bridge Learning Campus
Bristol, City of Bristol
06.2026 - 06.2026
- Organised utensils and cutlery making them easily accessible.
- Communicated with staff ensuring all tasks are delligated and completed before the children come to the canteen.
- Helped prepare high quality lunches for the students.
- Served primary and secondary pupils food at lunch and break time.
- Communicated with pupils ensuring that they were satisfied with the food.
- Cleaned and tidied utensils and cutlery after use.
- Engaged in enrichment activities such as, thank the teacher day in which I baked and decorated an additional 200 cupcakes for the teachers.
Work Experience - Builder and Management
G D Meek Property Maintennance
Bristol, South Gloucestershire
06.2024 - 09.2024
- Learned how jobs are planned and priced alongside learning how builders are organized and distributed to different jobs based off skill and ability level.
- Organised tools making them easily accessible for the job.
- Completed jobs within time constraints set by the manager.
- Learned basic roofing skills.
Volunteering Work Experience - Teaching Assistant
Bridge Learning Campus
Bristol, City of Bristol
06.2023 - 07.2023
- Provide one to one assistance with those struggiling with the work, by breaking each task into smaller, simpler, manageable tasks.
- Helped to deliver lessons by reading books to the children in English, helping children with mathematic calculations, and demonstrating handwriting skills to the class.
- Maintained a tidy environment, with all resources organised, ensuring the students had a clean, neat and tidy learning environment and that the class teacher had organised equipment to help them when delivering lessons.
- Helped with administrative roles such as photocopying and laminating.
- Supervised children during both lesson time and unstructured time ensuring that all students were safe and were being respectful of one another.
- Helped upset students to calm down and talk through their difficulties.
- Managed behavior ensuring that children were acting appropriately and showing kindness to their peers.
- Communicated with teachers and children and established a bond with children helping them to build trust and feel comfortable in the schooling environment.
Catering Assistant
The Players Golf Club
Bristol, South Gloucestershire
01.2023 - 06.2023
- Greeted customers politely
- Ensured customers' queries were managed well
- Ensured that the workplace was kept clean and tidy
- Washed all kitchen utensils and cutlery after use and ensured that all surfaces were clean
Education
A-Levels - Psychology, English language, sport, maths, EPQ
Wellsway School
Keynsham , Bath and North East Somerset 09.2024 - 08.2026
GCSEs - Maths, English language and literature, biology, physics, chemistry, dance, psychology, history, RS
Wellsway School
Keynsham , Bath and North East Somerset 09.2022 - 08.2024
Skills
- Hardworking
- Determined
- Conscientious
- Good under time pressure
- Behavior Management
- Lesson planning
- Supervision of children and adults
- Good communicator
- Organiser
- Food hygiene knowledge
- Customer service
Hobbies and Interests
In my spare time, I attend regular dance lessons and a community based lifesaving club. I also enjoy anything active from walking my dog to sponsored swims, charity runs and extreme water sports. I am always egar to try new activities and am up for a challenge. I also have a strong interest in psychology and love learning about the human mind and how this understanding can be applied to help individuals with differing needs.
Certifications
DBS
STA Level 2 Award in Teaching Swimming
RLSS NRSTC
RLSS Rookie Lifeguard Instructor
RLSS Lifesaver of the Year 2024
Timeline
Volunteering Work Experience - Catering Assistant
Bridge Learning Campus
06.2026 - 06.2026
Rookie Lifeguard Instructor
Circadian Trust
09.2025 - Current
Swim Teacher
Sport Education
09.2025 - Current
Swim Teacher
Circadian Trust
01.2025 - Current
Volunteer Lifesaving Instructor
Keynsham Lifesaving Club
09.2024 - Current
A-Levels - Psychology, English language, sport, maths, EPQ
Wellsway School
09.2024 - 08.2026
Work Experience - Builder and Management
G D Meek Property Maintennance
06.2024 - 09.2024
Volunteering Work Experience - Teaching Assistant
Bridge Learning Campus
06.2023 - 07.2023
Catering Assistant
The Players Golf Club
01.2023 - 06.2023
GCSEs - Maths, English language and literature, biology, physics, chemistry, dance, psychology, history, RS
Wellsway School
09.2022 - 08.2024