Swimming school for little ones
Swimming lessons that feel like playtime.
Small groups of four, a warm pool at 32 degrees and teachers who are very good at silly voices. Your child learns to love the water first. The strokes come after.
A class for every size of swimmer
Groups go by age, but nobody moves up until they are ready and happy.
Splashers
6 months to 2 years
You get in the water too. Songs, floating on your arm and the first brave blow of bubbles.
Bubblers
3 to 5 years
Kicking with a noodle, faces in the water and jumping in from the side into a teacher’s hands.
Paddlers
6 to 9 years
Real strokes, a first width on their own and a badge for every new thing they can do.
How the first lesson goes
Thirty minutes, in this order, and you are on the poolside the whole time.
Say hello
Meet your teacher on the poolside and pick a float to hold.
Sit and splash
Legs in, a few big kicks, and nobody has to go under.
Little steps in
Down the steps holding hands, into water no deeper than a tummy.
Sticker time
Every swimmer leaves with a sticker and a note of what they tried.
What a parent said
Noor used to cry at bath time. Six weeks in, she asks if it is Saturday yet so she can jump in to Teacher Sam.
Adaeze, mum of a very proud Bubbler
Try a lesson for free
After that, lessons are £13 each, paid by the term. Weekday afternoons and weekend mornings, with a family changing room right by the pool.
- Groups of four
- Swim nappies on us
- Free parking