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Download our Swimming Lessons leaflet (200kb, PDF). Hard copies are available at all Warwick District Council leisure centres and swimming pools.
Weekly Courses
A waiting list system is in place for the weekly courses. The minimum age for accepting juniors onto this list is 5 years for the mainstream lessons (separate waiting lists exist for the pre school lessons), and 16 years for adults. Once your name is on the waiting list we will phone you when we can offer you a place on a course, trying to give you a least two weeks notice of the start of the course.
Classes take place once a week over a 10 - 14 week period. Junior lessons are for thirty minutes and adult lessons are for forty minutes.
All junior classes are paid in advance for the term. Refunds are given only in exceptional circumstances and are at the discretion of the Centre Manager.
Adults can chose to pay in advance for the term or by joining the Otters Adults Swimming Club can pay a termly joining fee then pay for each lesson that they attend at any of the three pools. For further details on "Otters" please contact your local pool.
Junior Clubs
Once children have progressed to Level 7 of the National Plan for Teaching Swimming (see below) they have an option to leave formal swimming lessons and join one of the weekly Junior Clubs that run at each of the pools. Junior Club sessions include distance swimming, personal survival, advanced stroke technique plus an introduction to lifesaving and snorkelling. Further details of Junior Clubs can be obtained from any of the local pools.
Crash Courses
Intensive Courses in one and two week blocks are run during the school holidays. These courses do not give priority to people on the waiting list but are booked at the pool on a first come, first served basis. Details of the courses are displayed in the centres and include in the holiday activity leaflets produced for each school holiday period.
For both of the above types of course teacher/pupil ratios are designed to allow for progression learning and to maximise teacher/pupil contact.
Individual One to One Lessons
These lessons offer individual instruction to juniors and adults who feel they would benefit from this type of tuition rather than a group class.
Amateur Swimming Association - National Plan for Teaching Swimming
Warwick District Council has recently adopted the ASA National Plan for Swimming as a framework for its popular swimming lesson programme.
Further information on the ASA National Plan for Swimming can be found at the ASA website.
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