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Adult Swimming Lessons

Our Swim School programme has supported hundreds of adults to learn to swim or improve their skills from our extensive swimming facilities at David Ross Sports Village. 

Our adult lessons are for swimmers aged 14 years and over from complete beginners to advanced swimmers looking to improve technique.Swimming is not just a great way to exercise but an important life skill - it's never too late to learn to swim or improve!

Our expert instructors will support you to shape your own swimming journey based on your needs, from the basics to advanced technique progression. We offer three levels; beginners, improvers and advanced. 

Our group lessons offer:

• Small class sizes
• Qualified Level 2 instructors for every class
• Equipment provided throughout (or swimmers can bring their own if preferred)
• Flexible options to cater for swimmers with a disability including your carer supporting you in the water and an adjustable depth pool to assist entry

Ensuring your safety and wellbeing

University of Nottingham Sport have introduced a range of measures to ensure everyone's safety and wellbeing when visting our facilities and taking part in our Swim School programme. 

Before your first lesson back, please make sure you've read all our Swim School FAQs and information carefully before you return to familiarise you and your child with all the important changes we've made. Our updated timetable below shows the information for each class. 

Our new video also explains all the new measures and changes in place. 

Joining our Adult group lessons

Please note, we're currently unable to welcome new swimmers to our Swim School programmes.

Our waiting lists remain temporarily closed. Existing customers on our waiting lists will be contacted directly as soon as our programme can resume and places become available.

Our Adult Learn to Swim group lessons are 25 minutes long and the instructor will work their way around each individual giving you teaching practices to help achieve your goals.The programme offers three different levels: 

Beginners:

Located in shallow water at standing depth and ideal for swimmers who:

• Are a complete beginner
• Would like to build water confidence
• Can swim no more than 10 metres

Improvers:

Located in deep water and ideal for swimmers who:

• Are confident in deep water and submerging under the water
• Can swim 25m front crawl, 25m backstroke and 25m breaststroke
• Are able to tread water for 30 seconds

Advanced:

Located in deep water and is ideal for swimmers who:

• Can swim lengths for a 30 minute session
• Can swim a minimum of 200m (8 lengths) without stopping
• Can demonstrate basic techinique on front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke
• Can swim a length in under 30 seconds

Group lesson pricing:

• 11 week blocks are priced at £57.20 per block

Returning swimmers - timetable

Our Swim School programme is currently suspended in line with regional and national government restrictions. 

Please see below for the updated timetable for our Adult lessons once we are able to resume. All customers will be contacted directly via email as soon as a start date can be confirmed. If viewing on mobile, please scroll to view all the table. 

All swimmers have been automatically re-enrolled back onto the course that they were previously attending. If you are not ready to return or wish to change your day and/ or time, please contact us at swimschool@nottingham.ac.uk