Welcome to Water Babies
Find out more about the world’s number one baby and toddler swimming school
Why should I take my baby swimming?
There are so many benefits to baby swimming lessons. Not only are our lessons brilliant for your child’s development, they’re also the perfect place to bond with your little one.
Build their strength quicker
Swimming strengthens your little one’s heart and lungs, as well as their arm, leg and neck muscles. All this helps with their coordination and balance. It even aids a healthy appetite and improves their sleeping pattern.
Teach them water safety
There’s nothing more important than your child’s safety. Teaching them vital safety skills from the get-go prevents them from developing a fear of the water later and gives them the knowledge to keep themselves safe, wherever they are.
Develop their social skills
The pool is the ideal place for your little one to develop their social interaction as they play with other babies in the class. It’s also a brilliant way for you to meet other like-minded parents too!
Enhance the bond between you
Focused time in the water builds the bond between you and your baby, through skin-to-skin and eye contact. Swimming gives you that time to really connect, away from the demands of daily life.
Give them life confidence
Swimming strengthens your little one’s heart and lungs, as well as their arm, leg and neck muscles. All this helps with their coordination and balance. It even aids a healthy appetite and improves their sleeping pattern.
Accelerate their learning ability
All the movements that your little one learns in the water strengthen those brain connections. Research has shown that the time your baby spends swimming can put them months ahead with mathematical reasoning and reading.
What we’ll teach you
From your very first lesson, we’ll get your little one used to the sensation of the water, developing their natural instincts and building their water confidence. Our lessons will ignite their imagination and transport children to magical places, meeting amazing characters along the way whose water skills they’ll want to emulate.
Each Water Babies lesson will provide an experience where children will learn core aquatic skills, swimming strokes and water safety milestones to help them to learn a skill for life.
By the end of our programme, your little ones will be swimming freely using different strokes and be able to keep themselves safe in and around the water.
How our lessons work
Supportive lessons
Taught in a friendly group atmosphere, one carer per child and one of our teachers in the pool in each lesson.
30 minutes long
Lessons take place each week, so it’s a wonderful way to bond with your baby away from the craziness of life.
Have fun!
Skills are taught through song, play and repetition, so there’s never a dull moment when you’re in the pool.
Tailored progress
Our teachers will tailor each lesson to your little one’s ability, so it’s only when they’re ready, we’re ready.
Learn to swim
For our toddlers, we progress these skills and support little ones to gain more independence. We’ll use songs, games and activities to help them learn through guided play. As your child completes each level they will become stronger swimmers, travelling distances on their own, diving to pick up objects and demonstrating key safety skills including floating, treading water and climbing out.
Track their progress online as they complete each stage and celebrate their achievements with badges and certificates. There’s even the opportunity for one of our world class underwater photos of your little one!
Ready to start your swimming journey?
Splash into unforgettable memories and learn a skill for life today.
Hear why parents and little ones love us
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A skill for life
“We love Water Babies! Vale is a lot more confident in the water now when we’re on vacation or swimming with friends (…) It’s also a really fun activity to do every week!”
– Olivia and Vale (Toronto)
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Amazing lessons that build confidence!
My daughter and I have been loving Water Babies! We started when she was 6 months, and now at a year old, we’re still going strong … Also the safety skills that we work on multiple times a class, every week, will soon become second nature and that gives me great peace of mind.
– Colleen and Reese (Toronto)
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We love Water Babies
It’s a great way to get your little one comfortable in the water and help them learn how to swim (…) The way they use stories, songs, and the other babies in the class, makes it really easy for the parent and the baby to enjoy it.”
– Christopher and Benjamin (Toronto)
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Child Development and Safety
“I am an Early Years Teacher and appreciate the developmentally-appropriate lessons (verbal cues, movement, visual cues, and song), adult instructions … [Water Babies] focuses on water safety. This is important to us as parents, especially as we travel as a family of three and have friends with pools.”
– Amy and Oliver (Kingston)
Our Aquatics Experience
Our program ‘Oceans of Imagination’ introduces immersive, fantastical worlds and dynamic characters ‘The Swimvincibles’ who will take little ones on a vibrant and stimulating learning journey.
The littlest swimmers will join Team Pearl, where they will develop confidence both above and under the water. Blowing bubbles, kicking and reaching for toys are all part of the learning experience.
Discover Oceans of Imagination
We’ve created a world to engage and inspire young swimmers – turning the pool into Oceans Of Imagination. Our inspiring Team of Swimvincibles will guide your child’s swimming experience on an individual adventure, tailored uniquely to their needs. As they progress through the program they’ll be part of a Swimvincible Team and explore exciting islands to bring creativity and curiosity to every lesson.
So what are you waiting for? The adventure awaits…
Discover your local class today.
