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Improve Your Swimming
Swimming is a skill that’s useful in many areas of your life – it’s a skill that may save your life one day, it can help you get fit, it’s a great hobby to enjoy with friends and it’s a wonderful way to enjoy spending time with your family – whether in a pool on… Continue reading Improve Your Swimming
Swim Schools/National Framework Deliverers
Swim Schools are defined as ‘An organisation, other than a club, that teaches swimming and have staff who would benefit from registering with Scottish Swimming as a Teacher/Coach’. They can be voluntary (club); public (local authority) or private (company). The difference between a Club and a Swim School is that the Club and its members take… Continue reading Swim Schools/National Framework Deliverers
Swim Social
Swimming is a sport for all and a sport for life and our adult programme offers everything from coached classes in your local area to open water swimming sessions and even competitions through Masters swimming.
Coached Classes in Your Area
These adult coached sessions called Skills and Drills and Powerswim are available in local facilities around the country. There are different session types available depending on your ability and level of fitness: Skills and Drills These group sessions are suitable for able recreational swimmers who would like to improve their technique and fitness through learning… Continue reading Coached Classes in Your Area
Frequently Asked Questions
What age can my child start? For Adult and Baby/Child classes children can start at any age. Government Health experts now believe that it is now no longer necessary to wait until your child has had all their vaccinations before going into the pool. However some Local Authorities do advise 4-6 months and this can… Continue reading Frequently Asked Questions
Aims & Objectives
Early Years The Early Years Programme has three levels; Adult & Baby, Adult & Toddler and Adult & Child. For more information on the Learn to Swim programme specifically, visit the Early Years page. Preschool Aim: To become water confident and develop core aquatic skills (without adult assistance but with buoyancy aids as required) Objectives: Introduce complete non-swimmers to the aquatic environment… Continue reading Aims & Objectives
Learn to Swim Framework
Congratulations to EnjoyLeisure who won the Scottish Water Learn to Swim Service Provider of the Year award at annual Scottish Swimming Awards Night in 2019. Shortlisted alongside North Lanarkshire Leisure and Sport Aberdeen, Enjoy Leisure have been delivering the full pathway of the Learn to Swim Framework for the last few years in partnership with… Continue reading Learn to Swim Framework
Learn to Swim
The Learn to Swim programme, part of the National Framework for Swimming in Scotland, aims to raise standards and achieve consistency in swimming programmes across Scotland. Scottish Water, Proud to Support the Learn to Swim programme, have enabled us to develop the programme over the next few years and roll it out to help 100,000… Continue reading Learn to Swim
Early Years
This programme is designed to support teachers to plan a programme which introduces adult and baby to a swimming environment. There is an emphasis on encouraging independent movement, developing water confidence and core aquatic skills through structured play using fun, games and songs. The Early Years Programme has three levels; Adult & Baby, Adult &… Continue reading Early Years