Learn to swim

This stage 1 is the first step in our learn to swim journey. If your child has not taken swimming lessons before then, this is the stage for them! We focus on getting your children comfortable in the water. We teach your children to move in all directions, get water on their face, blow bubbles and understand buoyancy. These are the building blocks to develop the four main strokes further later on.

We build on the skills learned in stage 1. Children will continue to develop their leg kick skills while starting to incorporate arm movements. We will look at rotation in the water and continuing to develop confidence on their front and back.

In this stage, children should be really starting to develop effective front crawl and backstroke. They should be able to swim confidently across the width of our teaching pool maintaining correct head position, streamlined body position and excellent leg kicks

This is the first taste in deep water for our children. They should be able to swim the width of the boom confidently to enter this stage on both their front and back. In this stage, children will learn effective breathing techniques and start to develop breaststroke and butterfly kicks. We will also begin to build their fitness as they start to become independent of the teacher.

Children are now in the water by themselves. They’ll swim in the boom, across the length. Their front crawl and backstroke should be technically good by the end of stage 4 to prepare them for swimming in the lanes. They’ll also begin to develop their breaststroke and butterfly stroke using both arms and legs.

his stage is an introduction to lane swimming and our children are now building confidence over the 25 metre distance. We’ll develop technique across all 4 strokes while looking at a variety of rolls, rotations, and surface dives.

Children are continuing to develop fitness in stage 6 and should be confident over 25 meters with front crawl and backstroke. Breaststroke and butterfly will continue to be developed alongside some personal survival skills and confidence.

Children swimming in stage 7 will use front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke. The butterfly technique is further developed in this stage and we’ll also build children’s stamina and fitness as they start to swim multiple lengths using a variety of swimming strokes.

These classes have a club feel to them as children work towards achieving bronze, silver and gold awards as well as distance badges.

For those aged 16 and over, who are just starting their swimming journey or would like to improve their strokes.

We have teen diving lessons on Monday evenings for teenagers. We then run diving courses every Thursday and Friday. These classes go from beginners through to advanced skills. To enrol, you must be confident swimming in deep water of at least 25 metres.