Our popular swim school is now running at normal capacity. We have a small number of spaces available, if you are interested in swimming lessons at Hailsham, please contact us so we can discuss availability with you.
We offer a mixture of both group and private lessons from ages 6 months and up. To find out more information about our school and to come in for a trial please fill in your details below and a member of our team will get back to you.
(run during school term times)
adult & child (accompanied) - Building confidence and early stages of body position with songs & play
pre-school 1 (unaccompanied) - Building confidence, developing water skills and having fun workign towards duckling badges
pre-school 2 (unaccompanied) - Able to swim a few strokes on front and back without the use of flotation aids. Working on some deep water confidence
(run 50 weeks of the year, only stops at Christmas)
stage 1 - entry point for children who are new to swimming or still require aids to swim. Teaches water confidence and basic swimming skills
stage 2 - suitable for children who have gained stage 1 or those that are water confident and starting to swim 2-3m on front & back. At this stage children will be introduced to frontcrawl and backstroke with arm recovery over the water
stage 3 - suitable for children who have gained stage 2 or can swim 5m on front with face in the water and 5m on back. At this stage children will be developing front crawl breathing techniques.
stage 4 - is split in to 2 parts.Part 1 is suitable for children who have gained stage 3 or can swim 10m confidently on both front and back. Children will be further developing their stroke technique across all 4 strokes as well as learning deep water confirdence. Part 2 is putting these abilities in to practice to then pass on to stage 5.
stage 5 - suitable for children who have gained stage 4 or those that can swim 25m confidently on both front & back using basic stroke technique
stage 6 - suitable for children who have gained stage 5 or those that can swim 50m confidently in 2 strokes.
stage 7 - suitable for children who have gained stage 6 or those that can swim 100m confidently and tread water for 2 minutes
bronze challenge - suitable for children who have passed stage 7 and can swim 200m of each stroke
silver challenge - suitable for children who have passed their bronze challenge
gold challenge - suitable for children who have passed their silver challenge
rooking lifesaving - A RLSS progressive lifesaving programme which includes water safety, self rescue and emergency response
adult beginners - learning to swim, building confidence and stroke development, mainly in shallow water
adult improvers/intermediate - building stroke development and confidence in deep water