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Children's Swimming Lessons

Our Swim School programme has supported thousands of young people to learn to swim from our extensive swimming facilities at David Ross Sports Village. 

Our Children's lessons are for swimmers aged from 4.5 years to 14 years-old from Beginners' level to Stage 9. Our expert instructors will support our young swimmers to learn the basics through to becoming a trained competitive swimmer. 

Our fun, structured sessions focus on improving your child's technique in the water and enabling them to become happy, confident swimmers. 

Our programme offers:

• A fun, friendly and safe learning environment 
• Small class sizes
• Qualified Level 2 instructors for every class
• Additional Level 1 instructors to support all Beginner and Stage 1 lessons
• Programme focussed on Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD)
• High-quality lessons based around technique for all strokes 
• Equipment provided throughout (or swimmers can bring their own if preferred)

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 Swim School programme

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.

Group lesson pricing:

• 11 week blocks are priced at £57.20 per block 

Returning swimmers - updated 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 Children's 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