Swim Academy (school-age)
Swim Academy classes (for Primary school children) follow the same ethos as our pre-school classes. We believe that all children have a natural affinity with the water, and can enjoy the experience of swimming with an efficient, fluid stroke.
In the Puddle Ducks Swim Academy, we teach a natural, effortless and graceful swimming style. We start with simple skills and build on these slowly, in easy steps in accordance with your child's physical ability and understanding. We balance this with fun activities to develop additional skills including life-saving (our Pyjama Parties are fabulous!), floating and surface diving.
We offer four levels and you can expect your child to stay in any level for a year or even more. Although we do offer awards for distance and skills, we don't focus on these as much as many other swim schools do. Instead, we follow our own established teaching programme and take our time to get it right!
The atmosphere is lively as there are usually simultaneous classes run in the deep and shallow ends. This can be challenging for a new customer but they soon enjoy, and benefit from, seeing and interacting with the other swimmers.
Whether your child is continuing into the Swim Academy from Puddle Ducks pre-school classes, or is new to Puddle Ducks, you will find that we are skilled at both developing confidence and teaching advanced skills to young children. Once you feel your child is ready for the next challenge we can recommend swimming and lifesaving clubs that they may wish to join.
Our focus is on fun whilst learning to swim in a graceful, efficient style
Relaxing and floating
Hoop swimming promotes good alignment
