Keep up to speed with our programme with the latest updates from our Swim School team!
Bank Holiday
REMINDER! There will be NO lessons on Monday 6th May 2024 due to it being a bank holiday.
Email updates
An email has been sent today with all key dates for this course of group lessons and key info for all customers on the Learn to swim programme. If you have not received the email please can you email swimschool@nottingham.ac.uk with your/your child's name and the email address that you wish to be contacted on.
Updates to the programme
Over the last couple of years the University of Nottingham Aquatics team have introduced a number of changes to the programme to help improve the journey for swimmers and maximise a swimmers progress.
In 2022, we divided the existing Beginners group into two levels, Beginners and Foundation so lessons could be more focused on the swimmers needs based on water confidence and provide a faster progression through the stages. We also introduced Breaststroke clinics for Stage 3 - Stage 6 swimmers, to aid swimmers who were getting stuck within groups due to their Breaststroke.
In 2023, we reviewed the existing Stage 3 group, taking note that swimmers were spending longer in this stage due to the jump from swimming in shallow water to deep water and the difficulty of the criteria they were working towards. With this in mind we split Stage 3 into 2 levels - Stage 3 in shallow water which focuses on further developing their strokes and working towards 10m's in their strokes ready for deep water; and Stage 3 deep water which focuses on deep water confidence and recovering swimmers stroke technique once they move to deep water.
These developments have provided swimmers with a better progression through the stages and has raised the standard of stroke technique that the swimmers are developing.
Future updates
In December 2023, we successfully appointed a new full time Learn to Swim co-ordinator - Aimee Scadding to support with the running of the programme. Due to the success of the University of Nottingham Learn to swim scheme, the programme has grown and requires additional support.
The good news is we now have capacity to look at further developments and expansions. Our priorities are:
- a new swim lesson management software system with more functionality which will allow online payments and home portal to see your child's progress
- recruitment of more swim teachers to ensure that we can continue to maintain the programme and expand to offer more lessons
Parking
During May we will be hosting numerous events so please allow extra time for your journey and parking on the following dates:
- Friday 3rd - Sun 5th May 2024
- Monday 6th - Tuesday 7th May 2024
- Saturday 11th May 2024
- Saturday 25th - Sunday 26th May 2024
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