Adult & baby Classes
For ages 0-18mths
Swimming is one of the most amazing experiences you can share with your baby!
Mini Manta Ray’s swimming classes involve lots of play and songs to help your baby learn. Babies can start from just a few weeks old, or when you feel you are ready. At the classes, your baby will learn all the water safety aspects with you, and they will develop their water confidence skills.
Our classes are great for meeting new people and they provide a unique bonding experience for you and your baby, as well as providing gentle exercise for you!
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St. Michaels Middle School
Colehill Ln, Wimborne BH21 7ABWe offer a range of morning and afternoon times weekly during term-time.
Tuesdays at 9 a.m.
Thursdays at 10 a.m.
Fridays at 1 p.m.
All lessons are 30 minutes in duration.
Lessons are payable in a block from when you start. You can start anywhere in the term.
A taster lesson is available to book and is only £10.
Find out more on our booking page →
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Classes are packed full of fun songs and activities to develop water confidence and water safety skills. Songs are the most effective ways to communicate with your baby/child, promoting learning through repetition, rhyme and movement. During each lesson, children learn to enter and exit the water safely.
All lessons are taught by fully qualified and experienced Level 2 Swim England/STA Swimming Teachers, with full DBS, Teacher Rescue Award qualification, and Swim England Safeguarding in Aquatics trained.
Adult & Baby/child class overview
Classes are packed full of fun songs and activities to develop water confidence and water safety skills. Songs are the most effective ways to communicate with your baby/child, promoting learning through repetition, rhyme and movement.
Lessons include games and songs that help develop:
Buoyancy and balance. Songs/games include: ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’, ‘Dingle Dangle Scarecrow’ and ‘Jelly on a Plate’.
Travel and co-ordination. Songs/games include: ‘Five Little Ducks’, ‘Wheels on a Bus’, and ‘The Hungry Shark Game’.
Rotation and orientation. Songs/games include: ‘Pat a Cake’, ‘Row, Row, Row your Boat’ and ‘Treasure Hunt Games’.
Aquatic breathing. Songs/games include: ‘Humpty Dumpty’ (jumping from the wall), ‘Rainbow Magic’ (blowing bubbles under a woggle bridge) and ‘Egg flip races’.
Streamlining. Songs/games include: ‘Zoom, Zoom, Zoom’, ‘Speed Boat Rockets’, and swimming with floats.
Each lesson includes a wide variety of water toys and resources to gently simulate babies and children and to encourage development of the key water skills.
Our resources include: Flashing dolphins, egg flips, colourful animal floats, large floats, large hoops, woggles, spongy and squirty animal toys, brightly coloured balls, floating bricks, buckets and watering cans, diving fish, and a turtle and a duck family! We also have our own ‘Baby Annabell Learns to Swim’ doll, that the children love!
Certificates and Badges
Your baby/child will be awarded a free badge and certificate for each term of lessons that they attend. The Adult and baby/toddler & Preschool lessons follow progression through the Swim England National Plan for Teaching Swimming (formally ASA).
The Adult & Baby and Adult & Toddler lessons will focus on Discovery Duckling award skills.
The Adult and Pre-school lessons will focus on the Duckling Award skills. All awards can be achieved with or without floatation equipment or support.
All children can work towards achieving ‘I CAN’ badges. The Swim England ‘I CAN’ Awards are perfect for babies, toddlers and pre-school aged children. The Awards recognise achievement of specific single successes for early learners. Your child can enjoy receiving a special badge and certificate for nine types of skill development:
…enter the water safely
…jump in
…float on my front
…float on my back
…roll over
…blow bubbles
…swim
…enter, turn, return
…exit safely
Badges that your child can receive at Mini Manta Ray’s include:
I CAN AWARDS (for jumping in, blowing bubbles, floating, for example).
DISCOVERY DUCKLING AWARDS (Levels 1 – 4).
DUCKLING AWARDS (Levels 1 – 4).
Puffin 5m badges (swimming with aids).
Rainbow distance awards, such as 5m and 10m badges (swimming without aids).
At Mini Manta Ray’s, the aim is to instil a love of water for the rest of your child’s life.
ALL CLASSES
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Adult & Baby
For ages 0-18mths
Packed full of fun songs and activities to develop water confidence and water safety skills. -
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Adult & Toddler
For ages 18mths - 3yrs
Each lesson includes a wide variety of water toys and games to gently simulate toddlers and to encourage development of the key water skills. -
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Adult & Pre-school
For ages 3yrs - 4yrs
The Adult and Pre-school programme teaches children to be happy and safe in the pool. -
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Private Lessons
For all ages | 1:1 or 2:1 sessions
Private swimming lessons in an indoor heated Endless Pool in Corfe Mullen -
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Adult Swim Fit
For ages 18+
For recreational swimmers to triathletes/club swimmers/open water swimmers training for events. -
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Junior Swim Fit
Ages 13-17yrs
Stage 8 to club level.
The hour training sessions will include stroke technique work, drills, speed and endurance work. -
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Adult Mermaid Class
For ages 18yrs+
Mermaid classes for Adults are a fun and exciting way to get fit, meet new people and enjoy the freedom of swimming with a tail! -
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Mermaid Experience (5-8yrs)
For ages 5yrs - 8yrs accompanied by an adult
Our children’s mermaid experiences are an amazing way for your child to experience swimming like a mermaid, in a safe and friendly environment, with a fully qualified and experienced mermaid instructor. -
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Mermaid Experiences (8-14yrs)
For ages 8yrs - 14yrs | able to swim independantly and confidently
Learn to swim like a mermaid, in a safe and friendly environment, with a fully qualified and experienced mermaid instructor. -
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Mermaid Parties
For all ages
These private mermaid experiences will be great for hen do groups, birthday parties, open water swimming groups and anyone who wants to try something new, different and exciting.
