Our lessons run for 30 minutes. This is the perfect duration for a swimming lesson, because we know that children absorb the most information and learn skills in short, but focused bursts.

We have a maximum of 9 children per class. We’re proud to be able to offer every swimmer in our programme individual attention and tailored feedback. We have very deliberately chosen to make our classes this size, as they’re small enough for the teacher to give the swimmers lots of specific guidance, but also the right size to enable group activities, games, demonstrations, competitions, and a vibrant atmosphere!

Monday 4pm - 7pm Tuesday 4pm - 7pm Wednesday 4pm - 7pm Thursday 4pm - 6:30pm Friday 4pm - 6:30pm Saturday 8:30am - 3pm If you have preference over which day your child comes to lessons, please let us know and we will make sure we find a class that is at a convenient time for you

We offer lessons for children aged 2+ starting with our ‘Beginner with Parent’ classes, all the way up to stage 7 classes for our more advanced swimmers. There is no ‘wrong’ age to start lessons! We warmly welcome children who are older beginners :)

You can park on the main school car park at St Wilfrid's Primary for free - less than a minutes walk to the pool.

We provide swim discs for all of our swimmers - these are floats on the arms that allow us to gradually remove the support - one disc at a time - so our swimmers don't go from lots of flotation support to no support straight away. These are comfortable on children’s arms, positioned conveniently to not interfere with the technique and most importantly, the safest piece of equipment to help a young child learn to swim. Check out the PDF document below which explains our approach to using swim discs in more detail.