Learn to Swim

Age Range:
4 to 36 months

What you will learn:
An introduction to water, accompanied by parent or guardian, helping you to develop your child’s confidence and the basic skills necessary for learning to swim.

Information:
We run lessons for babies as young as 4 months at our 3 pools in Exmouth, Sidmouth and Honiton. These lessons are a great chance to introduce your little one to the water, meet new friends and ignite their love of water from an early age. Led by qualified baby and pre-school swimming instructors, they will offer a mix of structured activities and songs and ideas for you to take away and practice in your own time! These sessions operate on a Pay as You Go basis at the following times:

Sidmouth: Tuesdays 11:00am
Exmouth: Tuesdays 10:00am; Wednesdays 10:00am, 10:40am and 11:15am; Thursdays 9:30am; Sundays 11:15am
Honiton: Wednesdays 9:30am, 10:00am and 10:30am

When little ones reach 3 years old, or in some cases slightly sooner, they can join our ducklings programme, where parents no longer need to join them in the water. Please contact your relevant site for details on the timings of these lessons.

Age Range:
3 years to school age teachers assessment

What you will learn:
Encourages further water confidence and independence without the parent or guardian in the water

Age Range:
Stages 1 and 2: Ages 4 years +

Stages 3 and 4: Once passed the previous Stage

What you will learn:
Stage 1: Encouraging water confidence, moving independently, floating, body position and submerging

Stage 2: Encourages further water confidence, movement through the water both with and without the use of floatation aids as well as introducing aquatic breathing

Stage 3: Developing movement on both the front and the back for a distance of 10 meters. Also introducing children to the water safety code

Stage 4: This group has a strong emphasis on buoyancy and floating in the water. It requires kicking over 10 metres for front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly

Age Range:
Once passed the previous Stage

What you will learn:
Stage 5: This group is to improve and develop deep-water work as well as demonstrating the action for getting help and treading water whilst out of depth. It also covers the arm technique for all four swimming strokes

Stage 6: Continued development in all four strokes with more emphasis on technique and breathing. Also teaches children to swim with clothes on and how to perform a shout and signal rescue

Stage 7: Water skills and correct stroke technique on all strokes over a distance of 50 meters. Also incorporating a sequence of skills including sculling, floating, rotations and treading water. After Stage 7 of the Swim England NPTS you can choose to continue on the teaching plan to either Competitive Swimming or Rookie Lifeguarding stages 8,9 & 10

Age Range:
Once passed Stage 7

What you will learn:
Further development in water skills and stamina in all four strokes. Participants will learn the correct turns for all the strokes as well as learning to use the pace clock. Stage 8 includes swimming distances of up to 400m, leading up to Stage 10 where participants will be striving to achieve continuous swimming of up to 1600m. Competitive Swimming also includes refining starts, medley’s and relay swimming

Age Range:
Once completed Stage 7

What you will learn:
Mini Polo teaches the basics of the game of water polo to young players. Mini Polo will build overall motor skills, increasing speed, power and endurance through fun and games. It is also an introduction to simple rules and the ethics of sport

Age Range:
Once completed Stage 7

What you will learn:
Lifesaving Society UK are the leading provider for water safety education, rescue techniques and resuscitation. There are three stages; Bronze, Silver and Gold and each stage is subdivided into 3 levels. Each stage can be completed in roughly 16 weeks and a pupil can progress at their own rate

Age Range:
18 years plus, beginners and intermediate

What you will learn:
Learn to swim or to improve your technique on a particular stroke

Information:
Adult swimming lessons are available at Exmouth, Sidmouth and Honiton pools on a weekly basis. We offer both beginner and improver lessons, as well as advanced stroke technique and Swimfit classes for the more advanced swimmer looking to improve fitness. Lessons are included in an All-In membership but are also open to non-members on a pay as you go basis. For more information about session times, please contact your local centre or view the LED App.

All of our pools are proud to host their local competitive swim club. Once swimmers complete their Learn to Swim journey with LED, they have the option to progress into competitive swimming. The respective clubs are:

• Exmouth Swimming Club
• Sid Vale Sharks
• Honiton Stingrays

For Masters, LED offer advanced SwimFit sessions (check your local site for session times), that are run by qualified coaches. All local swim clubs also have a Masters section. For more information or advice on which session to join, please contact our Aquatics Manager, Katy Yardley.