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Preschool Swimming Lessons

Swimming lessons for 3 year olds and 4 year olds

Build water confidence and safety while having fun!

Dive into the fun with our specially designed swimming programme, tailored to work alongside your child’s development, and perfect for preschoolers!

We understand that every family is different, so we offer two options to match your availability and situation.

Ready for just a splash of independence?

We offer pre-schoolers a daytime (between 9am and 3pm) 2:1 teacher:pupil ratio lesson, where two small ones (aged 2 to 4) learn together with one of our professional swimming teachers, while parents or carers stay dry at the pool side.

Ready to swim in a bigger group?

Three- or four-year olds can also join our 4:1 group lessons, which take place on the weekends or after school from 3pm to 6pm in the week. This means little ones can swim about the same times as older siblings (subject to lesson availability).

Both 2:1 and 4:1 lessons follow our Learn to Swim programme, starting with a 5 metre badge and then Stage 1 certificate!

No matter which path you choose, our experienced teachers create a safe and playful environment for your child to build confidence and water skills, all while having a great time.

Preschool Swimming School Lessons

What our customers say…

 

Our 3 Year Old has Loved Her Lessons

“Our 3 yr old daughter has loved her lessons at the Earlsfield pool. Holly has been so supportive and calm in the water, making our Emily confident and on the cusp of swimming unaided. Thank you Holly!” – Kate Palmer

She looks forward to her lessons every week

“My 4yr old daughter Eva started swimming lessons here as a beginner in September. Her confidence in the water now is absolutely amazing and her progress has come on leaps and bounds. She is taught by a wonderful lady called Maria and Eva looks forward to her lessons with her every week. Maria takes time with each child in the class…I’m glad we found Maria” – Selina Singh

Can't Speak Highly Enough

“Since my 4 year old daughter started swimming lessons in September, she has made such rapid progress moving quickly onto stage 2. Harriet has such a positive and encouraging manner with the children and my daughter absolutely loves her lessons with her. Can’t speak highly enough.” – Rachel Phillips

What we teach

The focus is on getting your child independently confident in the water. Lesson content includes basic stroke technique, how to climb out of the pool, jumping into the water and a balance of fun, learning and discipline.

Teaching water safety is key and as a rule, arm bands or similar flotation devices are not used in our lessons. This is because they can easily create a false sense of buoyancy, which little people might not understand, meaning they think they can float in water when they actually can’t.

As this could be unsafe if they ever came across water by themselves, we prefer instead to use noodles and boards, which assist flotation only when they are needed.

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toddler swimming lesson with woggle
toddler retrieving dive sticks underwater
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Swimming Journey Stage 3 - Cindy helping Kaia in backstroke with float

See Kaia's swimming journey

See videos and images of what 3-year old-swimming lessons are really like! Cindy and Mark’s daughter makes her way through the pre-school swimming stage.

What you need to know

2:1 child to teacher ratio

30 minute lesson

Lessons are available in the daytime in the week

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 £113
(£99 for Balham/Tooting Pool only)

See T&Cs for full details

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4:1 child to teacher ratio

30 minute lesson

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 to expect

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Preschoolers learn in small groups

In our swimming classes for 3 and 4-year olds, children go into the water by themselves (ie without parents). Of course all under the watchful eye of our trained and experienced teachers.

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Preschoolers learn by doing

It’s also worth mentioning to be effective at teaching, we demonstrate movement and physically help our pupils perfect those movements in the pool. This may involve the teacher supporting your child in a hands-on way.

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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.

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child protection

All of our staff are DBS checked for child protection purposes.

toddler swimming back float with instructor
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What to bring

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Swimming goggles

We request the children have goggles. These are available to buy at the pools to make it easy for you to get hold of them. You can read about the best goggles for children and why here!

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Caps for every stage

A free orange silicon cap is provided, even for 3- and 4-year olds. This is very important at Cindy’s Swim School, for pool hygiene, fewer distractions for the children and our overall community cohesion.  Read more about why we’re so keen on swimming caps and how to put them on easily here!

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