I wouldn’t send my boys anywhere else, they are only 3 and 4 and they can swim 4 lengths on their own, on their back and do front crawl, with head in the water and turn to breath. Its amazing at this young age, my nephew that goes to another local school is 5 and just got his 5m badge needless to say he is joining them now too, his parents couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw my two on holiday jumping diving swimming with confidence its a Swiss school originally. I can’t thank them enough, but you need to see beyond the tears as they don’t use any woggles or floats or goggles.
Welcome to Les Bébés Amphibies Int. Aquatic Safety & Swimming Skills
Our main goal is your child’s safety in and around water! First we teach them Aquatic Safety Skills, which were developed in Switzerland and officially founded in 1967. These skills were designed and perfected to enable children to float for upto 20 minutes, giving them that extra time for help to arrive, should they find themselves in a difficult situation in the water.
We believe that every child should be able to swim without any buoyancy aid for a minimum of 25 metres by the age of 3 and most definitely be a confident swimmer before they start school.
The current national curriculum in the United Kingdom is 25 meters at 11 Years! We at Les Bébés Amphibies International believe this is too late. Once your child has mastered the Aquatic Safety Skills we move on to various swimming techniques.
Please note: Due to the fact that our children work very hard in their lessons maximum lesson time in the pool for children under 3 years of age is maximum 20 minutes there will always be some 1 to 1 time with an instructor.
Babies from 0 to 16 months with max 4 per teacher (Babies under 12 months are slowly built up to 20 minutes maximum. The instructor may stop your lesson at anytime if they think your baby is tired or cold as the health and safety of your child is our prime concern.
Children from 16 months to 3 years will always have a maximum of 3 per teacher
Children from 3 years old to 8 years old in beginner classes will always have MAX 2 children per teacher. Why? because if your child can’t swim at this age its very important they learn asap as they are the ones at high risk of falling into water, so need to learn asap so keeping a ratio of 2 children per teacher gives them more 1 to 1.
Our swim alone and classes from 2-3 years of age that can swim a width alone with no help at all will have max 3 children per teacher
Our more advanced classes will have max 6 children per group with 2 teachers.
We are very passionate about what we do; we don’t just teach a healthy sport, we teach your children vital safety skills that may save their lives or someone else’s..
Our method of teaching is fast and 2nd to none.