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Welcome to Mini Swimming at Little Barn, where we are dedicated to providing a premium swimming experience for you and your child. We are passionate about water safety and believe that swimming with your child is an opportunity to bond and create new friendships in a fun and relaxed environment.

At Mini Swimming, we offer age and ability-specific classes that enable your child to learn and develop alongside other children at the same stage. We pride ourselves on our friendly and personal approach, ensuring that both you and your child feel comfortable and at ease during our lessons.

Our fully qualified swimming instructors are also parents themselves and understand the importance of creating a safe and enjoyable environment for your child. We know that starting swimming lessons can be a daunting experience, which is why we strive to put parents at ease and make the experience as enjoyable as possible for both you and your child.

We are thrilled to have you join us at Mini Swimming at Little Barn and can’t wait for you and your child to dive into our fun and sociable classes. Our mission is to provide the best and most fun approach to developing water confidence and swimming ability for babies and young children. We look forward to helping your child become a confident swimmer and making Mini Swimming a non-negotiable part of your weekly cycle of clubs and activities.

Starfish

Our Starfish classes introduce your baby to water in a relaxed engaging and fun way. Babies can join from just six weeks old. Our aim in these classes is for parent and baby to enjoy being in the water together. We encourage lots of eye contact with fun activities and play. Songs and rhymes provide gentle stimulation and are an effective way to communicate with your baby. Babies enjoy the water massaging their bodies and the freedom of movement. We introduce the underwater environment, too, with a focus on the communication between parent and baby. This will teach your baby lifesaving survival skills and confidence.Swimming with a parent promotes skin-to-skin contact, security and a wonderful feeling!

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Clownfish

Our 1-2-year-olds are mostly toddlers now and love to play! They enjoy splashing, jumping in, kicking their legs and chasing balls. We encourage this with fun games and songs, together with swimming time with their parent. Our toddlers love to interact with each other, too, and the songs and group activities provide a focus for this. Most of the children in this class are extremely comfortable taking little swims on their own, both with floats and unaided. Without realising it, our toddlers are becoming skilled and safety conscious. They love to blow bubbles (the first step to learning to exhale in the water) and playing with the various water toys we provide. Our teachers are also amazing at working with new swimmers at this age who might not be so confident in the water.

Seahorse

Our Seahorse class for preschoolers are perfect for developing your child’s confidence and independence in the water. Now able to take instructions themselves, your child will love interacting with their teacher directly whilst still enjoying the comfort and guidance of having you by their side. These classes will take the fun and engaging format of our younger classes whilst gently introducing swimming techniques that will see them starting to independently swim around the pool. We perfectly balance games and teaching practices so that your child won’t even realise that they are learning. Your teacher will constantly monitor your child’s progress and will let you know as soon as they are ready to join our Academy Program (child only)

Sea Turtle

Our Sea Turtle Classes are designed to take non or new swimmers and get them working towards their first 5-10 metres. Your child will learn the correct body position and proper leg and arm technique. This class is perfect for developing water confidence and getting your child swimming and safe around the water. These classes will focus on front and back swimming.

Sea Lion

Our Sea Lion classes build on the foundations set out at the Sea Turtle level. Arm and leg technique will progress from a paddling action to the proper Front and Back Crawl whilst introducing them to the good breathing techniques. This class will also introduce Breaststroke and lifesaving skills.

Dolphin

At Dolphin level, swimmers are now swimming at a competent level with their Front Crawl, Back Crawl, and Breaststroke. This class will work on technical improvements to each of these strokes whilst also working on stamina and strength. This class will also introduce swimmers to Butterfly.

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Newsletter – July 2023

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Newsletter | April 2023

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Newsletter | March 2023

As the coldest months seem to be leaving us and the bright sun starts to shine through the Stanway and Lexden windows, we are reminded that lighter and brighter days are ahead. This always makes us think of our summer holidays – and everyone wants there to be a nice pool to cool down in, right?

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Newsletter | February 2023

At Mini Swimming, we refuse to let the cold short days of January get us down and all our teachers have tried extra hard to bring the fun and excitement to your January lessons, and hopefully you enjoyed being warm in one of our pools, even if just for 30 minutes each week!

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Newsletter | January 23

December has been a little bit of a blur – with all the festivities and a New Year thrown in!
We hope you all had an amazing Christmas and New Year

We were absolutely blown away by the number of cards, gifts, and well wishes from all of our swimmers. We never expect anything, but it is so lovely to know you have thought of us when buying all your teacher presents. A massive thank you to everyone who made our Christmas special and our waistlines a little bigger!

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Newsletter | November 22

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Newsletter | October 22

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Newsletter | September 22

September on the whole has been an extremely proud month for us. We are thrilled to have won BEST SWIM SCHOOL 2022 at the Essex Mums awards.

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Locations - Essex
Columbus School & College (Chelmsford)
Stanway Pool (Colchester)
Lexden Pool (Colchester)
Colchester Girls' High School
Little Barn (Great Dunmow)
Gladwins Farm Holiday Cottages (Nayland)

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Baby Swimming Classes (0-12 months)
Toddler Classes (12-24 Months)
Preschool Swimming Classes (2-4yrs)
Academy Classes (3-10 year-olds)

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