We make children swimming naturals
Whether they’re complete beginners or not, our award-winning and pioneering teaching method makes learning to swim a natural, relaxed and fun experience with amazing and recognisable results for all our children.
Personal tuition for children
We’re proud of our one-to-one and two-to-one classes and the thousands of children we’ve taught to swim in them. Your children can join the programme at any point from the age of three onwards. There are seven levels, each one named after a different water-loving animal. From beginner Frogs to Penguins classes last 30 minutes, from the more advanced Turtle to Swordfish you can choose between 30 or 60 minutes.
All Swimming Nature students will…
- Develop a strong and confident relationship with water
- Acquire technically effective, elegant and recognisable strokes
- Build positive muscle-memory through slow-motion learning, retaining technique at any speed
- Maintain total control and more safety in any marine environment
- Develop a self-assurance in everyday life from conscious learning and understanding
- Swim beautifully and have some serious fun!
The Progression Book
The progression book is almost as important as the water itself. Before your child starts, they’ll be given this precious book and its accompanying bubble stickers. Hold on to them. At the end of each term, along with your teacher’s personal report, it will be time to put the stickers in the book and celebrate every bit of progress.
The Progression Book has become a proven motivational tool, helping children to accelerate through the seven levels from basic underwater waving to strong and stylish swimmer.
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Awards
Besides the Progression Book and its stickers, each time your child achieves a new key skill at any level, they’ll receive an embroidered cloth badge from their teacher. The challenge is to collect all twenty.
- Shallow water confidence
- Underwater waving
- Flotation back
- Flotation front
- Leg kick front
- Leg kick back
- Front crawl
- Deep water confidence
- Backstroke
- Racing dive
- Backstroke
- Front crawl
- Front crawl
- Breaststroke 100m
- Backstroke 100m
- Backstroke 400m
- Butterfly 25m
- Breastsroke 400m
- Front crawl 400m
- Medley 200m
Animal Levels
Our water-loving animals, one for each of the seven levels of the programme, are here to encourage, inspire and reward children as they progress through it. Stimulating lesson plans ensure children are active and engaged for the whole of every lesson.
- Perfect for young children to discover the properties of water
- Learn how movement is affected in water
- Hop through constructive play without floats or arm bands
- Develop confidence in shallow water
- Key skills: breath control submerging and supported flotation
- Understand the basic principles of propulsion through gliding and kicking exercises
- Show off your balance skills by floating unaided in the water
- Learn lateral breathing
- Gradually move into deep water
- Take the first steps towards a technically-perfect backstroke
- Learn the components of front crawl
- Build stamina using the learnt backstroke
- Complete your learning of the front crawl including bilateral breathing
- Learn tumble turns and racing dives
- Build your stamina
- Lessons focus on learning breast stroke
- Start to toughen up your swimming
- Tuition focuses on stamina, rhythm and timing
- Strengthen your front crawl and backstroke
- You’ve developed flawless technique in three strokes
- Use your strength and undulation to learn butterfly
- Practise distance and speed swimming
- Test yourself with Swimming Nature Challenge times
- Move up to advanced work on timing and rhythm
- Swim in Medleys that show off everything you’ve learnt
- You complete our programmes as a strong, competent swimmer