Holiday Courses
If termly lessons are not for you or you are looking to continue swimming during the school holidays, crash course swimming may be of great value.
Swimming Crash Courses
Crash courses are ideally suited to help your child gain further confidence, swim without the use of aids, improve stroke technique and progress more quickly. They can also just be a fun way to keep your children entertained during the school holidays. The intense nature of the course (children attend daily lessons) ensures children find it easier to acquire new skills, so their confidence grows day by day. This intensive course can really boost a child’s ability.
Swim Development is an hour long session aimed at children in stages 7-10. The purpose of this course is to develop the necessary aquatic skills required to progress to the higher stages. It also allows swimmers the time to complete their distance swims and gain a distance award.
Crash courses take place during the holiday period with the exception of Christmas. Courses are one-week intensive and take place every day from Monday to Friday. Each lesson lasts 30 minutes and courses are available for stages 1-10.
Don’t worry if you haven’t swum for a while or are unsure as to which level might best suit your child. Our helpful stage guides will enable you to make the right choice:
Learning to Swim at St Helen’s
October Crash Courses
Week 1: Monday 26 – Friday 30 October 2020
- The scheme follows Swim England’s Learn to Swim programme
- Class sizes are small with no more than 6 pupils in a class
- Stages 1 – 4 can change after the lesson in the wetside changing rooms [no showers available]
- Stages 5+ can change after the lesson in the dryside changing rooms [no showers available]
Week 2: Monday 2 – Friday 6 november 2020
- These lessons are aimed primarily at St Helen’s pupils but are open to all
- Lessons are grouped by ability and based on PE swimming sets and do not follow Swim England’s Learn to Swim programme
- Beginner: designed for non-swimmers [Swim England Stages 1-2]
- Intermediate: designed for swimmers who need one float and encouragement to swim unaided [Swim England Stages 3-4]
- Improver: designed for swimmers who need basic technical improvement on front and back strokes [Swim England Stages 5-6]
- Advanced Improver: designed for swimmers who need stamina building and greater technical development on all strokes [Swim England Stages 7+]
- Wetside changing rooms are available for all pupils
Please refer to our Covid page for further details on these courses and our protocol measures. Terms & Conditions apply.
crash course timetable
| Term | From | To |
| Autumn Half Term | Monday 26 October | Friday 6 November |
| Spring Half Term | Monday 15 February | Friday 19 February |
| Easter Holidays | Monday 29 March | Thursday 1 April |
| Tuesday 6 April | Friday 9 April | |
| Monday 12 April | Friday 16 April | |
| Summer Half Term | Tuesday 1 June | Friday 4 June |
| Summer Holidays | Monday 26 July | Friday 27 August |
Contact Us
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