Onside-Sports Swim School

At Onside-Sports, we focus on providing fun and progressive lessons to independent swimmers from ages 3 up to 14 years and also offer parent and child Water-babies lessons from as young as 6 weeks to 3 years old (when they will start swimming independently).

At Onside-Sports Swim School we have qualified ASA staff with great experience to accommodate all swimming levels and stages. We believe that all swimmers should receive the appropriate time and attention from our teachers. Our 6:1 ratio and our policy of having teachers in the pool with the swimmers (especially for the younger groups) enables this attention to be given. We like to focus our lessons on water confidence, developing water skills and, within the higher levels, stroke development.

We provisionally place swimmers in the class levels that we feel is best suited to them, based on the information we are given during the booking process. This can sometimes change during the term if the teacher/supervisor feels they may be better suited to a different class level.

Our lessons are for thirty minutes duration and are held during school term-time only. To ensure continuity within lessons, all classes will normally have the same teacher throughout the term as this allows teachers to gain the trust of the swimmers and to progress them according to their abilities.

All swimmers will follow the criteria applicable to their class levels as detailed below:

Swimmers work through various ASA recognised National Swimming Awards from the Duckling Awards all the way through to the National Levels. We provide progress reports for every independent swimmer which are completed by the teacher and verified by the pool supervisor.

We aim to provide a happy, friendly and safe environment for all swimmers and parents, and will continuously work towards delivering fun and progressive lessons each week.
Our lessons consist of one teacher in the pool with each class (a second teacher may be used for some classes). Additionally, a pool supervisor will always be on pool-side to assist both the swimmers, the teachers and indeed the parents for any questions, advice or general guidance.