Department of Sport

Children's Swimming Lessons

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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, Foundation and Stage 1 lessons
  • Programme based on Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD)
  • High-quality lessons that are stroke technique focused
  • Equipment provided throughout

 Joining our Swim School programme

Our Junior swim school programme is now available for new customers to add their names to our waiting lists but we do have limited availability at all stages. This availability will be sold on a first come first served basis.

 

Day and times

Our programmes runs
 Days Times
 Monday's  16.00 - 19.30
 Tuesday's  16.00 - 19.00
 Saturday's   09.00 - 12.15 & 12.00-16.00
 Sunday's  09.00 - 12.30

 
Swim School Terms and Conditions Contact us

Group lesson pricing:

  • 11 week blocks are priced at £77 per block 

Current customers

The next course of group lessons is week commencing 17th February - week commencing 5th May 2025. The timetable below shows the days and times available for the next course. 

We will break for Easter on Friday 18th April 2025 (no lessons) and resume on Friday 25th April 2025 (lessons will run). There will be no lesson on Monday 5th May 2025 due to the bank holiday.

For customers wanting to re-book who are staying in the same stage, day and time, you can book from Monday 27th January 2025 at 4pm.

For customers who are moving up or wanting to change day or time, please see below. 

Booking week 2 - for customers moving up or changing day or time
 Day When to book
 To book Monday's lessons You can book from Monday 3rd February 2025 at 7:30am
 To book Tuesday's lessons  You can book from Tuesday 4th February 2025 at 7:30am
 To book Saturday's lessons  You can book from Saturday 8th February 2025 at 8:30am
 To book Sunday's lessons  You can book from Sunday 9th February 2025 at 8:30am
 

Please be aware that all the times listed below are subject to availability. If your current class is no longer there, please be see the table further down for the class you have been idenitifed for.

The timetable below is for the course that starts week commencing 17th February - week commencing 5th May 2025

Sunday

TimeStageInstructor
09.00-09.30 Beginners Keira
09.00-09.30 Stage 2 Izzy
09.00-09.30 Stage 6 Molly
09.30-10.00 Stage 3 Keira
09.30-10.00 Stage 1 Izzy
09.30-10.00 Stage 5 Molly
10.00-10.30 Stage 1 Keira
10.00-10.30 Beginners Izzy
10.00-10.30 Stage 3 Deep water Molly
10.30-11.00 Foundation Keira
10.30-11.00 Stage 1 Izzy
10.30-11.00 Stage 4 Molly
11.00-11.30 Foundation Lexi
11.00-11.30 Stage 2 Keira
11.00-11.30 Stage 3 Deep water Molly
11.00-11.30 Beginners Izzy
11.30-12.00 Breaststroke Clinic Molly
11.30-12.00 Stage 3 Keira
11.30-12.00 Foundation Izzy
11.30-12.00 Stage 1 Lexi
12.00-12.30 Beginners Lexi
12.00-12.30 Foundation Keira
12.00-12.30 Stage 3 Izzy
12.00-12.30 Stage 7 Molly
12.30-13.00 Stage 2 Lexi

 



University of Nottingham Sport

David Ross Sports Village
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0)115 74 87000
email: sport@nottingham.ac.uk