Children's swimming lessons

Give your child the confidence to enjoy the water with our Learn to Swim programme, designed for all abilities and delivered by qualified instructors. Following the Swim England framework, lessons focus on fun, safety, and skill development, helping children progress through each stage at their own pace.

Our sessions include:

Ducklings for toddlers building early water confidence
Stages 1 to 7 as devised by the ASA for structured learning and technique improvement

With engaging activities and supportive teaching, your child will learn essential life skills while having fun.

Learn to Swim pathway

Stage 1

This stage helps develop safety awareness, the 'class' scenario, basic movement and skills and water confidence skills. Swimmers may use aids, such as armbands and floats.

Stage 2

This stage focuses on safe entry to the water, including jumping in, basic floating, travel on the front and back up to a distance of 5m, and rotating the body to regain an upright positions. Swimmers may use armbands and floats.

Stage 3

More on developing safe entries into the water - including submersion - travelling up to 10m on the front and back, and progressing water safety knowledge and body rotation skills from the previous stage.

Stage 4

This stage aids the learner in developing the understanding of buoyancy through a range of skills. Also covered is refining kicking techniques for all strokes. The swimmer has to swim 10m to a standard directed by the ASA.

Stage 5

During this stage swimmers develop 'watermanship' through sculling and treading water skills and body complete rotation. They perform all strokes for 10m to a standard provided by the ASA in the Learn to Swim Framework.

Stage 6

Developing effective swimming skills - including coordinated breathing - across all strokes is the focus of this stage. Learners also have to swim a distance of 25m using a stroke of their choice. Children learn about aspects of water safety.

Stage 7

Children develop quality stroke techniques up to 100m incorporating the skills they have learned, and combine them to develop a linked routine. They also complete an obstacle course combining skills accomplished through stages 1 to 7.