William, my 4 year old, has been having weekly swimming lessons at this family run swimming school for the last 4 months. (He can swim 20 metres and has a badge and certificate to prove it!). During term time, classes are once a week for 1/2 hour for 11 weeks. Classes run week days and weekends and are age / ability banded.
During the school holidays they run week long crash courses for £59. The course is 5 days, each lesson is 1/2 hour and it's run by qualified swimming instructors who are friendly, professional and fun. I booked William in for a course, and it's been a great success given the raining August we are having.
The venue consists of a small foyer with seating for parents etc next to a floor to ceiling glazed area which looks directly onto the pool. From this vantage point, parents can see their children when in the pool but it helps prevent distraction from the teaching. The foyer leads directly onto 2 relatively basic communal changing areas, a pool a length long by a width wide.
It's bright, clean and importantly the pool is right temperature (I know this because I've had a 1-1 swimming lesson myself there).
The teaching is family run, and while keeping it fun, encouraging water confidence, the classes clearly works to establish the building blocks of the different swimming strokes. This is a proper swimming class for parents who want to get their children swimming confidently and enjoying water. It's not a splash about waste of money which some courses can turn out to be. The classes are for ages 3+ and can be in groups (no more than 6 to 1 teacher) or individual lessons.
Watching from behind the partition and chatting to the other waiting parents it's clear that many of these & pa indeed grandparents, learned to swim at Oakleigh Park when they were young.
Can't recommend this swim school highly enough.
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