Weekly Termtime Lessons
Discovery Duckling Awards
The start of your child’s swimming journey these lessons are suitable for babies and preschool aged children 6 Months – 4 Years. They are a great way to introduce your child to the water.
Discovery Duckling lessons provide fun and exciting lessons to enable your child to become water confident, achievable goals through play led learning in line with the early years foundation.
The key focus of the pre-school framework gives children confidence and teaches core skills needed to learn the strokes through fun and games and nursery rhymes.
These lessons are perfect for babies from birth (subject to Health visitor advice) and pre school children who are new to swimming. Usually parents or carers will attend swimming lessons and join them in the water. This helps provide reassurance for the child and gives the parent or carer confidence in assisting their child in the water.
Godstone, Surrey only
Thirty minute lessons are between 10am-12pm
Tuesdays 19 September – 5 December (no swimming 24 October for half term)
Priced at £143 for eleven weeks (sibling discounts available)
Alex is a great supportive, patient and encouraging teacher, she makes the lessons fun and built a great rapport with my son. He progressed really well with her and I’d highly recommend her!
Duckling Awards
These awards are a natural follow on from the Discovery Duckling awards. They are aimed at children who are old enough to follow instructions and can move on their own. They give the child more independence to start to build their confidence in the water. These awards are used to slowly build up the child ready for the ‘Learn to swim’ framework stages 1-7.
These classes will usually start with a parent in the water with a view to transitioning the child to swim with their group and teacher when ready. We aim to start building on the childs confidence and working towards independent swimming.
Duckling lessons mirror the early years foundation stages promoting learning through play and movement.
Godstone, Surrey only
Thirty minute lessons are between 10am-12pm
Tuesdays 19 September – 5 December (no swimming 24 October for half term)
Priced at £143 for eleven weeks (sibling discounts available)
Just wanted to message and say how fab this weeks going, my son is loving his lessons and growing in confidence everyday, Mike has been mainly teaching but hes been amazing. Thank you
School aged children Stages 1-8
The Learn to Swim stages 1-9 Awards are divided into progressive stages. They make up the core, national syllabus of learning to swim for primary school aged children that are inclusive and effective. On completion of Swim England awards with us we can happily suggest options for your child to either keep them swimming for leisure or a swim club should your child wish to take the club route with their swimming.
The Learn to swim framework takes a games led approach to swimming lessons and is underpinned throughout by the Athlete Development Support Pathway.
Woldingham, Surrey
Lessons are 2.30-4.30pm Sundays
Sunday 24 September – Sunday 10 December (no swimming 29 October & 5 November for half term)
Priced at £130 for the ten week term (sibling discounts available £120 for second/ third child)
Oxted, Surrey
Lessons are 12.30-4.00pm Saturdays
Saturday 23 September – Saturday 9 December (no swimming 28 October & 4 November for half term)
Priced at £130 for the ten week term (sibling discounts available £120 for second/ third child)
Chiddingstone, Kent
Thank you to all our swimmers that joined us for swimming over the summer term 2023.
We will be back from May 2024 at our Chiddingstone venue.
The structured and progressive content is based on games-led approach to ensure children enjoy learning in the pool. The programme is accompanied by a range of badges and certificates to motivate children and reward their learning at every level. Swim England also forms the cornerstone of curriculum swimming lessons in schools giving your child the best start in the pool.
Our lessons are designed to reward your child for their development of the essential aquatic skills they need to be confident, competent and safe in the water. We will concentrate on
- Developing fundamental movement skills
- Teaching children to swim using all four strokes of front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.
- Fun & enjoyment in the water to help your child learn.
Each of the Learn to Swim stage awards has a list of clear outcomes that need to be completed in order to gain each award. There are also a number of distance, stroke and other complementary awards that can be given alongside the stages 1-5 to keep your child motivated. In line with Swim England guidelines we look to award your child with 2-3 certificates per year which is a great keepsake of their achievement in the pool.
Further details of the Learn to Swim framework and the outcomes can be found here
Alex and her team’s friendly and encouraging teaching style works wonders with her young swimmers. My 7 year old daughter has progressed steadily over 2 years from basic safety skills in the water, using floats and noodles, to gliding confidently up and down the pool in all strokes. Now building stamina and improving technique, my daughter enjoys every minute of her lesson and comes out buzzing!
Further Information
How big are the classes?
Small is beautiful so they say! We deliberately keep our class sizes small as we believe we are able to offer all children a more personal high quality swimming experience. This enables us to provide more individual instruction where needed and there is less waiting around for your turn and more swim time. Our ratios are as follows:
- Parent and child classes (Discovery Ducks and Ducklings) 6:1
- Stage 1-2: 4 or 5:1
- Stage 3: 6:1
- Stage 4-5: 6:1
Class sizes will be reviewed or additional teachers added to manage capacities all of which are well within Swim England guidelines.
Do we need a hat?
This is not compulsory
What about goggles?
Goggles are a good idea to get used to and help children feel comfortable get used to putting their faces in the water. If parents do purchase goggles I'd suggest getting them used to these in the bath at home prior to lessons.
Swim Nappies
All children in nappies must wear a swim nappy in the pool we can supply these at £1 each on request.
Health
We ask that if you or your child display symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in contact with someone who is or who has tested positive to let me know and not attend your lesson these can be made up or credited to the following term.
Are there baby changing mats?
I will provide baby changing mats which are cleaned in between lessons but parent may wish to bring their own to lay on top of the mats. All nappies to be bagged up and taken with you when leaving the pool please.
How to Find Us
Hurst Green, Oxted, Surrey
*New for the Autumn term 2022*
We are operating out of Moor House School & College, Mill Lane, Oxted RH8 9AQ
This is a 25m 4 lane pool with diving.
There is plenty of parking on site in the school car park. Enter via the large green gates and you will see the sports hall. Changing rooms are on the left as you enter and access to poolside is via the changing areas. There is limited seating poolside to watch the lessons and also a viewing gallery upstairs.
Godstone, Surrey
We are operating out of the newly refurbished pool at St Stephen’s Church of England Primary School, Hunters Chase, South Godstone, Surrey RH9 8HR.
There is on road parking near the entrance to the pool site. We ask that you park considerately to those using the school for access and local residents.
Chiddingstone, Kent
We are operating out of Hoath House, Chiddingstone, Edenbridge Kent TN8 7DB.
There is ample parking on site for up to 80 cars just past the pool which is signposted on arrival.
This pool features a low level enclosure so we can partially close the roof in case of inclement weather. There is a patio and small lawn area adjacent to the pool for parents to wait whilst their children swim, please keep to these areas only. Bench seating and a small gazebo is available on the patio. No glassware is permitted around the pool area. We suggest children arrive at the pool swim ready before towelling off and straight into a onesie or similar before leaving after their lesson.
Woldingham, Surrey