Baby and Toddler Classes
Have you ever wondered when the right time is to introduce your baby to swimming, or how to make it fun and engaging? Well, look no further, our Baby and Toddler classes are weekly bookable sessions!
PARENT & BABY SWIM (8 weeks – 2 years)
Thursday’s – 09.00 – 09.45 & 09.45 – 10.30 (Term time only)
We start our session getting baby used to the water, for example, washing babies faces, having showers and splashing. We encourage you to join in with this as this encourages the babies to copy and be happy in the water.
Next, we move babies through the water, side to side, getting used to feeling the water move around them, then jumping up and down across the pool. We then move on to singing and copying actions along to familiar nursery rhymes. After this, we incorporate balls and noodles to encourage the first steps of front paddle. To finish the session, we incorporate the fun hour floats with more of your favourite nursery rhymes, including jelly on a plate, down at the station and the big ship sailing on the Ally-Ally-o!
Our older babies like to finish the session using the large floats as a “wobbly bridge” to walk across, this is a great confidence booster as well as developing and challenging their coordination, strength and balance when crawling and walking.
TWEENIES – 2 – 3 years
Thursday’s – 10.30 – 11.00 (Term time only)
Tweenies is a 30-minute class where the toddlers enjoy games specifically designed to build on their water confidence using noodles, floats, sinkers and other pool toys. We introduce water safety and the fundamental skills of each stroke as well as developing core aquatic skills.
We have motorbikes, horses, frogs on Lilypad’s and wild animals walking the wobbly bridge! We zoom like superman across the pool with our pool floats and look for fish and mermaid friends under the water using goggles and pool-safe mirrors!
Tweenies is fun, adaptable and can change week to week.
Cost for all sessions:
£6.75 per session
£3.35 for every other sibling attending at the same session
Please note; children are required to wear a swim nappy under their swimming costume during the session until fully potty trained. Swim nappies are sold at reception for £1.50.