Aims, Goals & Mission Statements of The Swim School.

Many people ask why learning to swim is important. We think the facts speak for themselves. Here are a few:

·         Drowning is the third most common cause of accidental death for children in the UK.

·         Over 450 people drown in the UK every year.

·         Swimming is the only sport which can save your life.

·         Swimming is a passport to dozens of other water based activities such as triathlons (see above), life saving, surfing, and water-skiing.

Did you know that more than 11 million people swim each year? They do. But here is a depressing statistic:

·         1 in 5 children leave school unable to swim

http://www.swimming.org/ (2012)

The swim school

·         The Swim School in New Whittington, Chesterfield is a purpose built swimming pool, providing swimming lessons and various activities for children and adults of all ages. The pool has a reception, male and female changing facilities, disabled changing facilities, showers and a viewing area.

·         There is plenty of free car parking spaces available at the Swim School.

·         Our swimming sessions start with Baby Aquatics, Swimbabes and Blue Water swim groups.

·         Under three year olds are accompanied by a parent, but at the age of three and a half, the child goes in by themselves. After this children then progress on to swimming lessons, taught by two qualified teachers per small class.

·         Over nine hundred children are currently learning to swim and developing their skills, using a unique badge system designed for the individual child. Children may work for badges from 4 years old.

·         All our Swimming Teachers are fully qualified and our lessons offer a safe and fun environment to develop a life skill.

·         Established over 12 years ago, purpose built teaching pool for children, adults, and disabled.
The Swim School offers private lessons on a one to one basis. We also have open swim sessions and aqua fit classes and sessions for stroke groups, schools and baby swimming.

·         There are Fun days for children of all ages during the school holidays.

·         Our adult swimming programme offers classes for beginners through to advanced swimmers wanting to improve or learn a new stroke.

·         The Swim School is a purpose built teaching pool.

·         Small class sizes

·         Teachers in the pool

·         Warm safe environment

·         Unique badge scheme

·         All the staff are qualified to a very high standard, both Teaching and Reception. There is funding available for adults and children with disabilities through Friends Of the Swim School.

www.the-swimschool.com (2012)

Aims and goals

The aims of the organisation are to get people swimming in a calm and relaxed environment.

They try to keep the prices at a reasonable but competitive rate.

They aim to get the best technique possible out of each individual.

The swim school does not have a mission statement so this will be identified as an issue.