At Oldham Active, we offer Swimming Lessons to cater for all ability levels, ensuring that we deliver the highest standards of swimming excellence. Our Active Swimming Lessons offer a comprehensive range of lessons from your baby’s first experience in the pool through to competitive swimming, lifesaving skills and Adult Lessons plus much more.
If you’d like your child to start our Oldham Active Swimming Lessons, simply complete our online form. Following this, a member of
the Aquatics Team will contact you to arrange your sessions.
For Non-Swimmers and Beginners: The Intensive Learn to Swim program is for those wanting to progress quickly or make up lost time so they can fast track through the criteria and stages.
Swimming is not only a great way of keeping fit, but it is also a valuable step to keeping children safe in and around water.
Swimming is an essential life skill; this skill is forever with them. In their later years their longevity and quality of life will be enhanced by swimming. This is a point that has been recognised by the government with the inclusion of swimming in the National Curriculum.
Oldham Active swimming lessons are available across all 5 of our centres, 7 days a week, with various times offered to help fit in around you. Lessons run throughout the year meaning you can start our courses at any time, whilst ensuring continuous improvement for all children.
Track your Childs progress online. Swim Teachers use electronic tablets on poolside to record each child’s attendance and their progress which updates to our web based Learn2 system. Parents can view their Child’s progress and attainments through the “Learn2 Home Portal”.
If you’d like your child to start Oldham Active swimming lessons, simply complete the online enquiry form.
Following this, you will be added to the waiting list and a member of the Aquatics Team will be in contact once a space is available for lessons.
Our courses are available across all centres over 7 days a week with various times offered and run throughout the year to ensure continuous improvement for all children. Each level is carefully aligned with all varying ability levels, ensuring that we deliver training that is fun, exciting and achievable, making your childs prgress easier and quicker.
Perfect for babies 6 weeks to 2yrs. This is an instructor lead class that enhances creative play in the pool environment. The instructor will aid you to really focus on your baby or young child in a group environment. It builds trust, promotes social development and focuses on having fun through play and games, with our little swimmers often making friends for life at their lessons. Lessons are bookable at £27.50 per month on direct debit via our swim team Email us
Discovery Ducklings 1 | Discovery Ducklings 2 | Discovery Ducklings 3 | Discovery Ducklings 4
Perfect for children aged 2yrs to pre-school children. This is an instructor lead class that builds on creative play and fun with more structure and is a great stepping stone for toddlers in preparation for main stream swimming lesson. Your child will start to learn how to use swimming aids and other pool equipment, improve their confidence in the water and start to swim independently. This will provide an exit route into our main stream swimming lesson programme. Lessons are available through direct debit only via our swim team Email us
Discovery Ducklings 1 | Discovery Ducklings 2 | Discovery Ducklings 3 | Discovery Ducklings 4 | Ducklings 1 | Ducklings 2 | Ducklings 3 | Ducklings 4
Perfect for children aged 2½ yrs plus. This is an instructor lead class, that is great for children who have minimal swimming experience or lack confidence in independent swimming. In this class a parent/guardian will accompany the child in the pool to prepare your child and build confidence and independence to enable them to access our main steam swimming lesson program. Lessons are available through direct debit only via our swim team Email us
By the end of this level, children will be able to complete the FUNdamentals of swimming. Including flotation, rotation, submersion and basic stroke skills.
Penguin 1 | Penguin 2 | Penguin 3 | Penguin 4 | Penguin 5 | Penguin 6 | Penguin 7 | 5 Metre Badge
Children will develop their water safety knowledge and have the skills to safely submerge, travel front & back and progress rotation skills.
Penguin 8 | 10 Metre Badge | Stage 1
This level will see your child develop to their National Plan Stage 2 award. They will develop their basic breathing techniques and start basic breaststroke.
15 Metre Badge | 20 Metre Badge | Stage 2
National Plan Stage 3 will test water safety skills and will focus on rotation, gliding and submersion skills as well as their effective stroke skills.
25 Metre Badge | Stage 3
Your child will develop a better understanding of buoyancy and refine skills such as sculling, treading water and complete rotations. All strokes will be completed to a high standard.
50 Metre Badge | Stage 4 | Stage 5
In this level children develop effective stroke techniques up to 100m and incorporate the skills learnt so far and learn how to combine those into an effective training routine.
100 Metre Badge | Stage 6 | Stage 7 | Personal Survival 1 | Personal Survival 2
Children will be able to complete comprehensive drill sessions, with correct technique on all turns between strokes.
200 Metre Badge | 400 Metre Badge |
Swimming Stage 8 | Bronze Award | 800 Metre Badge | Swimming Stage 9 | Swimming Stage 10 | Silver Award | Gold Award | Honours
1 Piece Swimming Costume / Trunks / Shorts. Leggings and long sleeve tops are allowed under swimming costume. Nothing loose fitted below the knee.
Correct coloured Oldham Community Leisure Swimming Hat Blue Hat and above can wear goggles.
No jewellery to be worn (unless it is a medical alert or for religious reasons- this will be at the teacher’s discretion) which will not interfere in the lesson, or cause a health and safety issue.
Swimming nappy must be worn if your child is not toilet trained.
You will need to have set up your direct debit to pay for your lessons. Once you have been allocated a swimming lesson day and time, please go to reception before the first lesson so you can pick up your swimming lesson access card.
This will allow you quick access to the centre and allow you to register for our Learn2 portal. Your child will need to wear a swimming costume or shorts, and will need a towel and any toiletries needed for changing afterwards.
Lessons are 25 minutes long, which we have found to be very effective as young children learn very quickly. However, it can help if you take your child swimming in between lessons to practice skills learnt within their lesson.
Lessons are structured, but like in the early years at school, play is a key feature in ensuring they get the most out of the programme and enjoy their first experience of swimming. Play also encourages confidence in the water that in turn aids progression. Lessons become more structured as children develop skills and confidence in the water.
Turnstile swipe card that was issues to you when you enrolled
Correct swimming attire
Swimming hat
Towel
Shower supplies if wanting to use the shower after
£1.00 for locker use
Money for badge if email has been received
If you’d like your child to start our Oldham Active Swimming Lessons, simply complete the online form. Following this, a member of the Aquatics Team will contact you to arrange your sessions.
Alternatively you can speak to one of our contact team on 0161 207 7000.
From time to time, you may be added to our waiting list until a space becomes available, as our lessons are extremely popular. If this is the case we operate on a first come first served basis to ensure we allocate spaces in the fairest possible way.
• Parent and Baby classes for under 2 year olds
• Parent and Child lessons for children 2 years plus
• Intensive Learn to Swim programmes for those wanting to progress quickly
• Adult-only swimming lessons, so you can learn to swim with just adults
• Advanced Training Squad for elite swimmers
Please contact us using the form below and send us a message.
Alternatively you can telephone our Contact Team on 0161 207 7000. We look forward to hearing from you.
Oldham Community Leisure is a proud
member organisation of GM Active
