Price: £365                                                                                            Duration: 5 days

This is your first step to becoming a qualified swimming teacher. The course will teach you how to deliver safe, progressive, engaging and active lessons to children from non-swimmers through to improver ability. You will learn about the essential swimming skills and how these help a child to develop the basic techniques for all four swimming strokes. The course will introduce you to the principles of effective teaching, looking at health and safety, safeguarding, communication, motivation and feedback, as well as how to plan and evaluate your teaching skills. During the course you will teach a range of ability groups from non-swimmers to improvers, teaching between 4 to 8 pupils in and out of the water.

Course requirements

• You must be 16 years of age or older
• You must hold current membership of STA. Please note that we require your STA membership number 5 days before the commencement of your course so that we can ensure you are registered on the course correctly

Price: £350                                                                                            Duration: 4 days
This qualification is for individuals, who wish to work with babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers and their accompanying adults. No prior experience of working with children or teaching swimming lessons is required. The course will teach you how to deliver safe, progressive, and engaging baby and pre-school lessons, with an emphasis on a child-focused approach.  During the course you will deliver lessons in our SWIMBiES programme, working with babies from 3 months old through to 4 years old. You will learn about the essential baby swimming skills, the core holds, child development, cues and reflexes to enable you to understand how to deliver progressive and suitable lessons that meet the needs of the parent and child.

The course will introduce you to the principles of effective baby and pre-school teaching skills, looking at health and safety, communication, organisational methods, motivation and feedback, as well as how to plan and evaluate your teaching skills. You will learn a range of activities, songs and progressions throughout the course.

Course requirements

• You must be 18 years of age or older
• You must hold current membership of STA. Please note that we require your STA membership number 5 days before the commencement of your course so that we can ensure you are registered on the course correctly
• Hold the Safeguarding Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults online learning certificate or acceptable equivalent

Price: £400                                                                                Duration: 4 days

This qualification is your next step to becoming a fully qualified swimming teacher. The course will develop your existing teaching skills and knowledge focusing on how to deliver safe, progressive, engaging and active lessons to advanced swimmers. You will learn about advanced swimming skills, as well as developing your knowledge of the four competitive swimming strokes. You will also learn about delivering School Swimming lessons, with the opportunity to have practical experience during the course. Teaching adult swimmers will also be covered, ensuring that you understand the key differences between teaching children.

The course will focus on ensuring you can deliver effective lessons to large groups, displaying the ability to plan for a range of abilities, differentiating and adapting to the needs of your pupils. Successfully passing the qualification will enable you to deliver lessons from non-swimmers through to advanced swimmers, for both children and adults.

Course requirements

• You must be 16 years of age or older
• You must hold current membership of STA . Please note that we require your STA membership number 5 days before the commencement of your course so that we can ensure you are registered on the course correctly.
• Hold the STA Award in Teaching Swimming or acceptable equivalent (please note the ASA Level 1 Award in Aquatic Teaching is not an acceptable pre-requisite)

Price: £350.00                                                                           Duration: 3 days

The STA Award in Aquatic Teaching – Disability Swimming aims to train learners to teach aquatic activities to disabled individuals and groups. This qualification is for learners who wish to work with participants who have a disability in mainstream or disability swimming lessons and help them to develop both as swimmers and individuals in the aquatic environment.The STA Award in Aquatic Teaching – Disability Swimming aims to train learners to teach aquatic activities to disabled individuals and groups. This qualification is for learners who wish to work with participants who have a disability in mainstream or disability swimming lessons and help them to develop both as swimmers and individuals in the aquatic environment.Swimming has amazing benefits for everyone, and even more so for those with disabilities. If you want to help people with disabilities experience swimming in a safe environment, then this is the course for you.

Course requirements

• You must be 16 years of age or older
• You must hold current membership of STA
• Hold the STA Award in Teaching Swimming or acceptable equivalent (please note the ASA Level 1 Award in Aquatic Teaching is not an acceptable pre-requisite)