Key Swim School

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Introduction

Introduction

Welcome to The Key Swim School at Pool in the Park

The Key Swim School is our new swimming tuition programme. The Key Swim School will operate 50 weeks of the year with a two week break during the Christmas period.

The Key Swim School provides swimming lessons for everyone.

Lessons for children from 6 months to adults of any age,
Lessons for total beginners through to long distance and survival swimmers,
Lessons for disabled and abled bodied people.

The Key Swim School enables

more people to have the opportunity to learn how to swim,
improves on the progression of swimmers through continual assessment and
offers a faster flowing more efficient programme, thus
providing the opportunity for students to reach their goals more quickly.

Benefits of joining the Key Swim School

Students learn to swim more quickly with fewer breaks in their learning.
Feedback provides information that students experience backward movement in their abilities following lengthy breaks. The Key Swim School addresses this regression through the continuous nature of the programme.
Through continuous assessment students can progress quickly through badges, even before the scheduled conclusion date for the course in some cases. This could provide customers with better value for money and savings.
As the school provides easy payment options there will be reductions in the need to queue at enrolment times if you decide to pay as you go.
If you opt to pay on a monthly Direct Debit or annually then enrolment will be considerably easier.

Key Swim School prices from 1 April 2009

30 minute class	Price pay as you go	Monthly direct debit	Annual Payment
Standard (adults)	£6.50	£26	£286
Status	£5.50	£22	£242
Concession	£2.70	£11	£121
45 minute class	Price pay as you go	Monthly direct debit	Annual Payment
Standard (adults)	£9.75	£39	£429
Status	£8.25	£33	£363
Concession	£4.15	£16.50	£181.50

Status price band includes pre-school, full time education, senior plus, disabled customers, and those on a government training scheme.

Concession price band is for Woking residents meeting eligibility requirements on a low income (income support, working tax credit, job seekers allowance (income based only) and pension credit).

Lesson Cancellation / Refund Policy

Existing rules remain for termly payees. For Direct Debit customers a refund on the monthly next payment will be arranged automatically.
Please note that pre-school classes run for 38 weeks each year. Please ask at reception for more details.

How to apply

Please complete an application form. Application forms are available as a downloadable PDF file here or as a paper copy at reception in Pool in the Park.

Completed forms should be taken to pool reception.

Swimming Tuition Programme

Woking Borough Council is committed to providing an excellent swimming lesson programme. We have our own badge system which runs in line with the A.S.A. (Amateur Swimming Association) national plan.

We are a popular centre for both lessons and general swimming and constantly strive to balance and improve the programme. Due to the popularity of the tuition programme there are waiting lists for some classes, but it is anticipated that the new, year-round rolling programme will help to alleviate this by allowing student to progress more quickly thus creating more capacity.

Current Programme Structure (Children)

Class	Age Group	Description
Splashers	6 months - 2 years	Parent and child in the water. Class is for general water confidence with the swimming teacher giving advice on how to help move the child through the water.
Ducks	2 years - 3 years	Content as Splashers but for older age group.
Flippers	3 years - 4 years	Two groups: one for less confident children who still need parent in the water with them, one group for children able to swim independently with armbands.
Penguins	4 years - 5 years	Progression class from Flippers
Beginners 1	5 years plus	For children who are not water confident.
Beginners 2	5 years plus	Progression class from penguins for water confident children who can move through water with or without armbands.
Improvers	5 years plus	Progression from Beginners 2. Children should swimming without armband, confident under water. Front crawl and back crawl plus breaststroke and legs.
Improvers Plus	6 years plus	Progression from Improvers. Focus on breaststroke, front and back crawl. To pass this class, children should be able to swim one length of the teaching pool in each of the strokes confidently and without pause.
Intermediate	6 years plus	Progression from Improvers Plus: Deep water confidence, continued stroke instruction.
Intermediate Plus	6 years plus	Progression from Improvers Plus: Includes swimming greater distances, introduction to diving.
Stroke Technique	6 years plus	Emphasis on defining all three strokes. To progress from this class, children should be able to swim proficiently in all strokes and swim 200m continuously.
Challenge	6 years plus	Focus on increasing stamina, diving, surface diving and straddle jumps. To progress from this class, children should be able to swim 400m continuously.
Personal Survival 1,2,3		Follows the S.T.A. syllabus (45 minute lessons)
A.S.A. Bronze, Silver and Gold	These are extra classes, not a progression from Personal Survival	Follow the A.S.A. syllabus (30 minute lessons)

Adult programme

Use this link to see more information on the adult swimming tuition classes.

Key Swim School Rules

Use this link to see some helpful hints and do's and don'ts for the Key Swim School

Teaching Standards

All of our swimming teachers are fully qualified to the Amateur Swimming Association (A.S.A) Level 2 Swimming Teachers Certificate and a current National Rescue award and CRB check...

Assistant teachers are fully qualified A.S.A. Level 1 teachers, hold a current National Rescue Award and CRB check Assistant teachers will assist in lessons only.

All swimming teachers wear staff uniform, even when teaching in water, to make them easily identifiable.

Contact Details

Sports Development Officer, Alan Hanley
email keyswimschool@woking.gov.uk telephone 01483 743139

Sports Development Assistant, Paula Jenkins
email keyswimschool@woking.gov.uk telephone 01483 743138

Pool in the Park: telephone 01483 771122