We're not only a swimming school
Lessons take up most of the week. But the pool is busy from six in the morning until late, and a lot of what goes on in it has nothing to do with learning to swim.
Grown-ups swimming before work. A class of women who come as much for the company as the exercise. Families with the pool to themselves on a Sunday afternoon. Children in for the whole day in the holidays. And people lying on floating beds with their eyes shut, listening to gongs.
Here's the lot.
Aquacise
£7 per session
Fitness in the warm water, and a proper social. You don't need to be able to swim — it's a class standing in the shallow end, using the water to do the work. Eight classes a week, mornings and evenings.
Lane swimming
£6 per day
Your own training, in a warm pool, with seven swimmers in it at most. Early mornings Tuesday to Friday, and two evenings.
Fun Swim
£3 a head
Half an hour in the pool with your child on a Saturday afternoon. Free if you've a credit from a missed lesson, and a lot of families use it that way.
Family Pool Hire
The pool to yourselves. Half-hour slots on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, or take both and have the full hour. Pay with missed lesson credits or straight out.
Holiday clubs & events
£35 per day
Half past eight until half past three in the school holidays, with a swimming lesson every day. Longer if you need it — there's a cinema room until five.
Santa's workshop and creative workshops
Santa's workshop at Christmas, and creative workshops at Christmas and Easter. Three local primary schools come to us for these as well as the families who book.
Aquatic Health & Wellness Experience
£40 per person
Ninety minutes that belong to you. A guided floating meditation on a bed in the warm pool, then a sound bath, then time to sit with a drink before you drive home. No swimming needed.
School swimming
Seven local primary schools bring their classes to us for their national curriculum swimming, with two teachers in the water.
When does it all happen?
The timetable has the usual week, day by day — including the early mornings and the weekend afternoons.