STA accredited
Learn to Swim
From complete non-swimmer to confident swimmer, with a strong focus on water safety and a termly award for every swimmer.
A swimming family since 2002
Where Swimming
is Fun!
Small classes, teachers in the water beside your child, and a warm pool in Guildford. Learning to swim should feel like play.
Touch the water
5–6
swimmers per class
20+
years teaching in Guildford
STA
accredited Learn to Swim programme
In water
teachers beside every swimmer, plus pool helpers
Termly
award for every swimmer
3
warm, friendly pools across Surrey
01Welcome
Family is at the heart of everything we do.
Julie started teaching in 2002. Twenty years later the school is still run by the same family, and most of our teachers learned to swim here themselves. We know every swimmer by name, and we know which ones need a little longer at the shallow end.
Classes are kept to five or six swimmers so nobody waits at the wall. Teachers stay in the water, pool helpers are on hand, and lessons are built around enjoyment and play — because children learn fastest when they are having fun.
Personalised learning
Water safety first
Competitive pricing
Children in Need pyjama party
02Learn
What we teach
Five programmes, one approach: small groups, teachers in the water, and progress you can see at the end of every term.
All abilities
Adult Lessons
Never swum before, or coming back to it? Relaxed lessons at your own pace, from first float to stroke development and training.
Age 8+ · 50m
Junior Lifeguard Academy
Lifeguarding skills, first aid, boogie boarding, ocean awareness and health & wellbeing.
Dedicated session
Teenage Swim
A session of their own, for teenagers who want to keep improving among swimmers their own age.
School holidays
Holiday Courses
Private 1:1 — also 1:2 and 1:3 — in Goldsworth's warm shallow pool. Ideal for nervous swimmers and additional needs.
02The learner journey
From the shallow end to the lifeguard academy
Stage 01
Nervous non-swimmer
Water confidence through games, with a teacher always within arm's reach.
Stage 02
Beginner
Floating, kicking and first strokes, with a pool helper alongside.
Stage 03
Improver
Front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke — and an award every term.
Stage 04
Confident swimmer
Distance, technique and the water-safety skills every swimmer should have.
Stage 05
Junior Lifeguard & Teenage Swim
50m and beyond: rescue skills, first aid, boogie boarding, ocean awareness.
03Splash
Our three pools
All indoor, all heated, all quiet enough to hear your teacher. Parents wait poolside.
Boxgrove
18m pool. Beginner and improver classes.
Wed · Thu · Fri4.00–6.00pm
Ripley Court
Adult lessons and a shallow area for those starting out.
Monday6.30–8.30pm
Friday6.00–7.30pm
Goldsworth
Warm shallow pool. Private holiday lessons, 1:1, 1:2 and 1:3.
School holidaysBy arrangement
04Join
Meet the swimming family
Seven teachers, all STA trained, all in the water with your children. You will see the same faces every week.
Julie
Owner · founded 2002
Lianne
Lead teacher, Boxgrove · admin
Angelina
Lead teacher, Ripley Court
Megan
Lead teacher, Boxgrove · admin
Kate
Cover teacher
Lance
Teacher
Jasmine
Teacher
Every teacher is STA trained, and every class has a pool helper on the side.
Ask us about a place →“Warm pool and clean facilities.
“Absolutely brilliant in all aspects.
Recommended by parents
Families have been passing our name around Guildford since 2002.
Come and join the swimming family.
Tell us your child's age and how they feel about water, and we will suggest the right class and pool. No forms, no pressure — just an email back from one of us.