Now booking for Easter 2026
Holiday intensive courses will be run during the Easter School holidays in Westbury-On-Trym.
Learn to swim – 30 minutes per day for 5 days
Daily lessons teaching confidence and basic swimming skills. Learners will build their confidence throughout the week and hopefully feel they are able to take their first independent strokes.
Beginners/Stroke introduction – 30 minutes per day for 5 days
Instruction in basic strokes i.e Freestyle, Back stroke, Breaststroke, and basic Butterfly.
Stroke Improvement – 30 minutes per day for 5 days
Intensive instruction on the intricacies of a swimming stroke. Should a learner lack the skills in one particular stroke this class is for them. A variety of drills and activities will be included to assist the understanding of the skills needed to reconstruct the stroke. Associated activities will be included such as Push and glides, surface dives, touch turns etc.
Junior Lifeguard Academy – 1 hour per day for 5 days
This is a very popular and exciting program of aquatic activities suitable for students aged 8 and over.
Activities include Pool sport – Swimming, rescuing and personal survival skills against the clock. How many casualties can you rescue in 1 minute using a throw rope?
Artistic swimming – the art of moving, changing direction, sculling, diving etc in a controlled way.
Water polo – dribbling, throwing and catching a ball while moving around the pool
Identifying and rescuing conscious and unconscious casualties from the water using a variety of methods.
Dates of courses – Easter 2026
Monday 13th April to Friday 17th April
9am – Learn to swim
9am – Stroke introduction for beginners
9am – Stroke development for Improvers
9am – Starts and turns – including diving, touch turns and tumbles
9.30am – Learn to swim
9.30am – Stroke introduction for beginners
9.30am – Stroke development for Improvers
9.30am – Starts and turns – including diving, touch turns and tumbles
10am – Learn to swim
10am – Stroke introduction for beginners
10am – Junior Lifeguard Academy – 1 hour per day including Water Rescue, Personal Survival, Water Polo, Artistic Swimming, Pool sport etc