Karen Bromley Swim School

We are a family run swim school covering Suffolk and Norfolk. Classes are kept small to enable a relaxed, friendly, fun environment for you and your family. Water safety skills are taught as fundamental to produce safe, competent swimmers. You will be amazed at what your baby or child can achieve in the water, with your guidance and love, they are truly amazing.

Our lessons are based on various methods of swimming teaching including Swim England, Swimming Teachers Association and Birthlight. We focus on a more child led approach to swimming, meaning we allow the babies and children to be in control of the pace at which they are learning.

No baby, child (or parent!) is ever made to do something they are not comfortable doing, we give various ways of doing an activity or skill so that everyone can work at their own comfort and confidence level.Our teachers work patiently and calmly alongside all our swimmers to ensure they enjoy every step of their swimming journey.

Our baby and parent classes work with the Swimming Teaching Association and Birthlight methods of teaching, using relaxed holds, water body balance, breath awareness, games & nursery rhymes. Parents do not need to be able to swim and we are more than happy to teach parents how to feel more comfortable in the pool so they can enjoy the water with their baby.

Swimming lessons for toddlers follow on from baby classes, furthering their skills to enable them to swim independently. Some babies who come to swimming lessons will be able to swim independently towards the end of their second year, there may even be a few who can swim earlier!

We normally expect a majority of children to swim a few meters at some point by the end of their fourth year, however, this all depends on a variety of factors such as how long they have been having lessons, how often they practice outside of lessons and their own pace of learning.

Lessons after school (as well as weekend lessons) are held for children of school age. Whether they have been going to swimming classes for years or it is their first time, children will develop the necessary skills to become safe, competent swimmers in and around water. They will work on all 4 strokes - front crawl, back stroke, breast stroke and butterfly, as well as key skills such as treading water, push & glides and sculling.