The Kingfisher School of Swimming is a small privately run swimming school. We consider it to be a professional, vibrant and fun place for pupils to learn an essential life skill. The aims within the school are to teach pupils to swim confidently, happily, with a degree of style and to encourage the pupils to take steps towards reaching his/her full potential as a swimmer.
The proprietor is Anne Sellars an ASA qualified instructor who has 30 years teaching experience. The team is a mixture of qualified new young talent and experienced mature professionals who have acquired a vast amount of experience in many aspects of aquatic provision especially swimming. Many of our teachers have a competitive swimming background and are parents. All teaching staff are fully qualified under either the ASA or STA and our assistants are all qualified to the relevant standard under the STA. All staff are qualified with either a Rescue Test for Teachers or a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification and all are CRB checked.
The Kingfisher School of Swimming follows the STA awards scheme, is a member of the IOS and is fully insured by Swim sure Insurance.
START DATE: SAT. 11TH – WED. 15TH JAN.
ASSESSMENT WEEK: SAT. 8TH – WED. 12TH MARCH.
ENROLMENT WEEK: SAT. 15TH – WED. 19TH MARCH.
ENROLMENT DAY: FRIDAY 21ST MARCH.
COURSE FINISHES: SAT. 29TH MARCH – WED. 2ND APRIL
WATCHING WEEKS FOR BOTH ENDS OF THE POOL JAN – APRIL:
Watching week No. 1
Saturday 1st – Wednesday 5th February
Watching week No. 2
Saturday 22nd – Wednesday 26th February
NEXT COURSE APRIL 2025: SAT. 26TH – WED. 30TH APRIL.
The last week of term is fun week, and your child may come along to any of the sessions listed below on the half hour.
No pupil will be able to join in midway between sessions.
We adhere to a maximum bather load of 35 pupils.
When this is reached, any pupil that arrives after will be asked to wait until the next session (this doesn’t happen very often).
Please note that the earliest times tend to be the busiest.
The times are as follows:
Sat 29th March. 1st session 9am last session 10.30am
Sun 30th March. 1st session 9am last session 9.30am
Mon 31st March. 1st session 5pm last session 6.30pm
Tues 1st April. 1st session 5pm last session 6pm
Wed 2nd April. 1st session 5pm last session 6.30pm.