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IT'S NEVER TOO SOON TO LEARN TO SWIM...
Little Flippers Swim Academy offers baby, pre-school and primary school children swimming lessons in Cornwall, that give a gentle yet dynamic approach to independent swimming. It's a natural, fun experience that can help your little ones develop physically, emotionally and socially while equipping them with key water safety skills.
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Retallack Resort and SpaWinnards Perch
St Columb Major Tr9 6DE Classes are held on Tuesdays 10am-2pm Babies and Toddlers (Little Flippers) 
Piran MeadowsWhitecross
Near Newquay TR8 4LW Classes are held on Saturdays 9am-2pm Little Flippers and Big Flippers 
Chycara
Chyreen Lane
Carnon Downs TRURO TR3 6LN No classes currently running |
Pentewan SandsPentewan
St Austell PL26 6BT Classes are held on Mondays 10am-4pm Babies and Toddlers (Little Flippers) No classes currently running 
Primrose Hydrotherapy Pool
The Merlin MS Centre Hewas Water St Austell PL26 7JF Classes held Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. 10-2 babies and toddlers (Little Flippers) After school Monday & Friday 3.30-7pm (Big Flippers) Saturdays both Little & Big Flippers 
St Moritz Trebetherick
Wadebridge PL27 6SD No classes currently running |
The Point
St Minver Near Polzeath Cornwall PL27 6QT Classes held on Wednesdays 2-6pm and Sundays 11-2pm Little Flippers and Big Flippers 
Waterside
(Formally known as Lakeview) Old Coach Road Lanivet PL30 5JJ Classes held on Wednesdays and Fridays 10-2 babies and toddlers (Little Flippers) Wednesday after school 3.30-5pm (Big Flippers) No classes currently running 
Fowey Hall
Hanson Drive
Fowey Cornwall PL23 1ET Classes held on Friday 3:30-6pm for big Flippers Currently not running, spa undergoing a refurbishment, returning in the spring! |
Classes
Little Flippers Swim Academy's unique classes teach babies and children to swim.
Each session is full of ways for both you and your little ones to have fun learning special swimming techniques, whilst equipping your most precious children with vital water safety skills, building confidence through to independent swimming. Classes are run in a calm and relaxed manner using fun and games taking into account each childs age and level of confidence in the water.
We are very passionate about teaching our classes and your loved ones the best foundations with confidence in and around water and essential life skills, so we can enjoy our beautiful beaches and water activities, it's a skill you would never regret giving them!
At Little Flippers Swim Academy we offer swimming classes, Antenatal swimming and Rookie lifeguard courses.
We start with our water bonding, relaxation and healthy exercise with your unborn baby in our Aquanatal classes.
Little Flippers: From birth to 4 years
Introducing babies to water from an early age has been proven to have many great advantages, including building strength, stamina, confidence and even improving eating and sleeping patterns.
Babies will also discover the relaxing freedom of buoyancy and underwater swimming enhancing the bonding process between you and your baby.
Big Flippers: From age 4 years and above
We feel living in Cornwall with our beautiful beaches it's important to continue with swimming techniques, water safety skills and why not join us and become one of our Rookie junior lifeguards.
To renew your term membership or book your place along with any nappies, awards and products, please see our store above.
By booking and making a payment you are agreeing to our TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Due to health and safety of both our babies and our pools we run a compulsory double nappy system (until fully toilet trained), this consists of a disposable or reusable aqua nappy and a splash about Happy Nappy, this way we are minimising the risk of any unwanted leaks in our pools. We recommend the Konfidence aqua nappy as they are one size fits all! Both these and the Happy Nappy are reusable saving money in the long run!
Both nappy systems are available in various sizes and colours and can be purchased through Little Flippers Swim Academy.
Each session is full of ways for both you and your little ones to have fun learning special swimming techniques, whilst equipping your most precious children with vital water safety skills, building confidence through to independent swimming. Classes are run in a calm and relaxed manner using fun and games taking into account each childs age and level of confidence in the water.
We are very passionate about teaching our classes and your loved ones the best foundations with confidence in and around water and essential life skills, so we can enjoy our beautiful beaches and water activities, it's a skill you would never regret giving them!
At Little Flippers Swim Academy we offer swimming classes, Antenatal swimming and Rookie lifeguard courses.
We start with our water bonding, relaxation and healthy exercise with your unborn baby in our Aquanatal classes.
Little Flippers: From birth to 4 years
Introducing babies to water from an early age has been proven to have many great advantages, including building strength, stamina, confidence and even improving eating and sleeping patterns.
Babies will also discover the relaxing freedom of buoyancy and underwater swimming enhancing the bonding process between you and your baby.
Big Flippers: From age 4 years and above
We feel living in Cornwall with our beautiful beaches it's important to continue with swimming techniques, water safety skills and why not join us and become one of our Rookie junior lifeguards.
To renew your term membership or book your place along with any nappies, awards and products, please see our store above.
By booking and making a payment you are agreeing to our TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Due to health and safety of both our babies and our pools we run a compulsory double nappy system (until fully toilet trained), this consists of a disposable or reusable aqua nappy and a splash about Happy Nappy, this way we are minimising the risk of any unwanted leaks in our pools. We recommend the Konfidence aqua nappy as they are one size fits all! Both these and the Happy Nappy are reusable saving money in the long run!
Both nappy systems are available in various sizes and colours and can be purchased through Little Flippers Swim Academy.
All of our families at Little Flippers Swim Academy have the opportunity to attend our magnificent photo shoot, to have professional underwater photographs capturing precious moments that demonstrate how relaxed and natural our little ones are in the water.
Photographs are taken by Khalile Siddiqui photography.
After getting to know Khalile's fantastic photos and personality, I approached him to see if he would like to work alongside Little Flippers in taking these very unique underwater photos and I am now very pleased to be working together to create such fun photos that everyone loves having at home.
The cost of the photo shoot is £50 for which you will receive a 7x5 professional photograph after which you may purchase further pictures if desired. Our next photo shoot will be in the spring/Summer 2024.
Photographs are taken by Khalile Siddiqui photography.
After getting to know Khalile's fantastic photos and personality, I approached him to see if he would like to work alongside Little Flippers in taking these very unique underwater photos and I am now very pleased to be working together to create such fun photos that everyone loves having at home.
The cost of the photo shoot is £50 for which you will receive a 7x5 professional photograph after which you may purchase further pictures if desired. Our next photo shoot will be in the spring/Summer 2024.
Awards
Little Flippers Swim Academy run alongside the swimming Teachers Associations (STA) swimming programme .
The programme has seven different progressive stages which all offer badges and certificates to mark your children's progress, www.sta.co.uk
At Little Flippers Swim Academy we introduce your baby to the water beginning with the Starfish programme and progress to the Stanley Seal, Octopus, Goldfish, Distance and Lifesaving awards which continue alongside school education swimming programmes.
The programme has seven different progressive stages which all offer badges and certificates to mark your children's progress, www.sta.co.uk
At Little Flippers Swim Academy we introduce your baby to the water beginning with the Starfish programme and progress to the Stanley Seal, Octopus, Goldfish, Distance and Lifesaving awards which continue alongside school education swimming programmes.
Starsfish;
Our Starfish badges range from 1 to 6, in this series your babies are introduced to the water, we learn many different holds and how to support and move freely around the water with your baby.
We introduce submersions and begin teaching water safety techniques including returning to poolside along with safe ways to enter and exit the pool. |
Stanley Seal;
Stanley Seal badges range from 1 to 7, in this series the children move freely through the water unassisted whilst learning techniques including front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke and dolphin leg kicks.
We introduce lots of different floating positions ,jumping in, treading water, breathing techniques, diving, balance, and of course safety! |
Octopus and Goldfish;
Octopus and Goldfish badges range from 1-3, in the series the children learn different ways to confidently move through the water and reinforce the techniques gained from the Starfish and Stanley series, including treading water, floating positions, different strokes and water safety.
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Distance and Lifesaving awards;
Distance badges range from 5-5000 meters alongside the distance badges we offer the Angelfish and Shark badges that teach the importance of lifesaving techniques including being rescued and rescuing others, perfecting strokes, diving, correct starts, turns and finishing.
Once the children are able to swim 50 meters confidently they are also ready to join our Rookie Lifesaving groups! |
