Children’s Learn To Swim
Kids swimming lessons that are safe, effective and fun!
Cindy’s Swim School offers 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!
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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
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
Learning to swim 5 metres distance, watch the videos and images showing what children learn in stage 1.
Stage 2 Swimming Journey
Working towards swimming 10 metres distance, see videos and images explaining what is taught in stage 2.
Stage 3 Swimming Journey
Aiming towards 15 metre distance and progressing front and back strokes, see Stage 3 exercises here.
Stage 4 Swimming Journey
Children learn to develop technique in all four strokes and learn to dive in!
What to expect
Kids learn in small groups
Children go into the water by themselves (i.e. without parents from approximately 2 years old). They of course will be under the watchful eye of our experienced teachers.
Safe and firm teaching
Whilst our classes are enjoyable, we find children benefit from a firm no-nonsense approach to uphold safety in the pool and the focus is on learning.
Kids learn by doing
To be effective at teaching, we demonstrate movement physically and help our pupils perfect those movements in the pool. This may involve the teacher supporting your child in a hands-on way.
child protection
All of our staff are DBS checked for child protection purposes.
What to bring
Caps for every stage
A free silicon cap is provided. The colour of this will change as your child passes each stage.
Swimming goggles
Children will also need to wear goggles in all kids swimming lessons. These are available to buy at the pools to make it easy for you to get hold of them.
Swimming costume / shorts and towel
And don’t forget the basics: a swim suit or swim shorts, towel and bag to hold wet stuff on way home!
Cindy’s Swim Shop
Swim bag
£12.00
Goggles
£10.00
These are provided in the Cindy’s Swim Lessons but it’s great to have you own if you want to swim outside lessons too!
Set of Diving Sinkers
£10.00
A pack of five colourful sinkers, great for teaching beginner swimmers’ under water confidence, proper breathing and under water manipulation.
As swimmers advance, sinkers are used to strengthen and lengthen body position and teach.
Inroducing Our
stage 1-3 Starter swim kit!
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£40.00
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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.
