Swimming Lessons - Active Lifestyles Stroud
Our swimming lessons run on a continuous 50-week programme, offering flexibility with sessions available seven days a week. You can start your child’s swimming journey at any time during the year. Children are assessed weekly, ensuring they progress at their own pace and move up as soon as they are ready.
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Little Ducks:
To begin a child’s swimming journey, we offer Little Ducks parent and child swimming lessons. In these sessions, both parent and child get in the pool to learn water confidence and basic swimming skills. This first step in a child’s swimming journey is a great way to introduce them to the water – not only do these lessons make your child feel more confident in the water, but you’ll feel more confident, too. We offer these lessons for babies from birth up until the age of 3-and-a-half.
Stage 1 (Preschool):
Before a child starts school, they can join our Learn to Swim Programme at Stage 1 from the age of 3 and a half. Once they start school, they are then able to move into Stage 2. These lessons work on developing basic water confidence and learning to work as a group.
Stages 2-7 (Junior learn to swim program):
Our Junior Learn to Swim Programme runs every evening and on the weekends. We follow the Swim England National Teaching Plan to ensure that your child progresses as quickly as possible. In some cases, we may ask that you bring your child along to a public swimming session so that we can accurately assess their ability and direct you to the correct class.
Squad Swimming:
Once a child has achieved Stage 7, they can continue their swimming journey within our squad system which covers stages 8, 9 & 10 of the Swim England National Teaching Plan.
Squad swimming is an introduction to competitive swimming and focuses on good technique, building strength, stamina and speed in the water. If a child is unsure about joining a club, squad swimming is designed to give them the club swimming experience while staying local.
