Children’s Learn To Swim
Kids swimming lessons that are safe, effective and fun!
Cindy’s Swim School offers group children’s swimming lessons after school and at weekends to teach your child to swim and help them improve. We also offer holiday crash courses, which are hugely popular! For for more information, go to our swimming courses page!
Our swimming lessons take place at some wonderful pools across South London including locations in Beckenham, Brixton, Wandsworth, Tooting, Elephant & Castle, Streatham, Herne Hill and Southfields — all easily accessible from surrounding areas.
Did you know…
As well as children’s 4:1 group swimming lessons, we also offer 2:1 and 1:1 children’s lessons.
Check out our children’s private swimming lessons page for more information
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What stage?
- All Stages
- Stage 1 - can swim less than 5 metres unaided
- Stage 2 - can swim 5 metres unaided
- Stage 3 - can swim 10 metres backstroke and 5 metres on their front unaided
- Stage 4 - can swim 15 metres strong backstroke and front crawl with weak technique
- Stage 5 - can swim 25 metres breaststroke, backstroke and front crawl with medium technique
- Stage 6 - can swim 100 metres in all strokes with medium technique + tumble turns
- Stage 7 - 200 metres in all strokes with good technique + tumble turns
- Stage 8, 9 & 10 - 300+ metres in all strokes with great technique + pace clock
What we teach
The focus of children’s swimming lessons is to strengthen the basics of your child’s swimming ability, progressing them at their own pace. We work on developing their confidence in the water, as well as core muscles, before moving on to more advanced stroke techniques. We have added to the Swim England “stages” and our teachers follow structured lesson plans. As a reward for their hard work, students receive certificates and badges for moving onto the next stage and when they can swim certain distances. Once their technique is up to standard, they can move onto our Children’s Squad lessons.
What you need to know
30 minute lesson
4:1 child to teacher ratio perfect for beginners To make swimming lessons as affordable and accessible as possible, we’re pleased to offer a monthly subscription which spreads the cost evenly over 11 months of the year. Monthly subscription – £85 (See T&Cs for full details)
You’ll need to bring
Swimming goggles – which we sell – just ask the office! Swimming cap – children will be given a CSS cap when you join our Children’s Learn To Swim programme
What our customers say…
how we teach children to swim
Take a look at the diary of Kaia as she learns to swim from Stage 1 to 4
Stage 1 Swimming Journey
Stage 2 Swimming Journey
Stage 3 Swimming Journey
Stage 4 Swimming Journey
What to expect
Kids learn in small groups
Safe and firm teaching
Kids learn by doing
child protection
What to bring
Caps for every stage
Swimming goggles
Swimming costume / shorts and towel
Cindy’s Swim Shop
Swim bag
£12.00
Goggles
£10.00
For ages 6 to 14, Zoggs Junior Ripper goggles have soft fleshy frames for young faces, anti-fog lenses and adjustable split straps to help keep those goggles on for the whole session!
Set of Diving Sinkers
£10.00
Inroducing Our stage 1-3 Starter swim kit!
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Free Collection at pool!
Practice what you learn during Cindy’s swim lessons on your own trips to the swimming pool.
Our Junior Stage 1-3 Kit contains a pool noodle (woggle), a diving sinker, and junior kickboard all neatly stored in a swim bag in a colour of your choice.
