Baby Swimming Classes

Our baby and toddler classes are relaxed, unique and fun, offering your baby a full, multi-sensory experience. Introducing a parent and child to the water together, we help you to gain confidence with your child and offer a fantastic bonding opportunity with no outside interruptions.

Each class is carefully planned by our qualified team who have over 20 years’ experience of teaching infant aquatics.  Classes follow a different theme each week and have specific learning outcomes. We understand how babies and children learn through play, trial and error so we use this to plan each lesson with a variety of songs, games, water toys and equipment to build and develop skills rather than simply playing in the water.

Location: The Frating pool, Fieldfare, Bromley rd, Frating, Colchester, CO77DP.

Times/Days: Monday + Friday – 9:30am-12pm

There are so many benefits to baby swimming but here are just a few below

1. It teaches confidence and safety in the water
   Children who don’t get their feet wet until later tend to be more fearful and negative about swimming. Younger children are also usually less resistant to floating on their backs. By teaching your child how to control their breathing, swim short distances underwater, get to the side, hold on and where possible clamber out they become equipped with key life-saving skills.

1. Enhances wellbeing
   Toddlers just love being in warm water as it relaxes them and makes them happy.

1. Improves mental and emotional development
   In their first year a baby’s brain grows more rapidly than at any other time so starting early maximizes their learning experiences. Swimming stimulates all of the senses and provides new experiences that help little ones to understand their environment. The lessons encourage development of concentration, control and co-ordination.

1. It can improve appetite and sleep patterns
   Swimming can improve a baby’s appetite as lots of gentle exercise and warm water helps to make a baby hungry. Swimming can also improve baby’s sleeping patterns as the extra exercise will help to make your baby sleepier.

1. It strengthens baby on the inside
   Swimming strengthens your baby on the inside as it improves the strength of their heart and lungs and cardiovascular fitness.

1. It provides quality bonding time
   Swimming in the pool is one of the few times when your child has your undivided attention for the entire duration of the class.

1. It encourages social development
   A weekly swimming lesson is often a child’s first social experience out of the home that involves their peers. They learn to relate and interact with each other and enjoy seeing their classmates.

1. It improves co-ordination and balance
   Learning to swim will help your little one’s co-ordination and motor skills. Babies who swim have better balance and can grasp objects more easily than non-swimmers.

1. It builds physical their strength
   Buoyancy and water-resistance mean that babies exercise their muscles more effectively in water than on land. Swimming babies crawl later but walk earlier thanks to their excellent muscle control.

1. It develops their learning skills
   Children who swim in the early years are ahead of non-swimmers by 6 to 15 months by the time they start school especially when it comes to solving math problems, counting, language and following instructions.