School Holiday Swimming Crash Courses

What Is A Swimming Crash Course?

Swimming Crash courses or intensive swimming lessons are short courses (normally 5-Day courses) offered during school holidays like school half-term breaks and Easter and summer holidays.

Blue Wave Swim Schools offers crash swimming courses in Wimbledon. We offer 5-Day courses from Monday to Friday (weekdays) during morning hours during school holidays.

Swimming crash courses are excellent for keeping children physically active during holidays when catching up with their swimming. Intensive holiday courses specially useful for families with busy schedules which doesn’t allow doing weekly swim lessons during school term time.

Adults could also sign up to our intensive course to either start off their swimming journey again or catch up fast with technique. Our next adult 1:1 5-Day intensive course will run W/C 28/10 2024.

How Are Swimming Lessons in Crash Courses?

a 6 year old child swims backstroke with good technique

Teaching methods used for teaching swimming lessons in our crash courses are similar to our weekly term-time lessons 1:1 or semi-private lessons

The difference is children will have daily lessons for 30 or 60 minutes on 5 consecutive days- 5 lessons in 5 days in a row.

So, instead of once-a-week’s lesson, you can fit almost a half-term worth of lessons by doing a week crash course or almost a whole term of lessons into two weeks. Doing crash courses could also save time on traveling to lessons.

The Main Goals of Holiday Crash Courses are depending on the level of swimming of each swimmer since we only teach private lessons:

For beginners, our crash course lessons focus on:

  • Boost water confidence
  • Teaching water-safety skills
  • Teaching the fundamentals of swimming

For intermediate and more advanced swimmers:

  • Improving/polishing technique
  • Learning new strokes
  • Learning and practicing other important aquatic skills like diving
  • Building stamina

2024-2025  Swimming Crash Course

For the rest of 2024, we will have our October half-term break in Wimbledon which will run on W/C 28 Oct 2024.

During this school year for 2025 school holidays, we will have a February half-term (W/C 17 Feb 2025) crash course in Wimbledon followed by the Easter holiday and then the May half-term and 4 weeks of courses in summer.

Read more about the format of lessons, course fees, dates, lesson duration, etc by visiting the FAQs page or go to our Fees and Dates page.

If you wish to Enquire more about our 2024 October half-term crash courses please complete the below form.

2024 Oct Swimming Crash Course-Newsletter link

Register Interest for 2024 Oct Swimming Crash Course in Wimbledon

  • please pick '1' if there are no siblings or friends/family who you wish to share lessons with you or your child
  • We also offer intensive summer swimming courses for adults. If the enquiry is for our adult swim lessons please pick 'NO'
  • Age in YearsSwimming Ability 
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    At the moment semi-private or 1:2 or 1:3 lessons offered to siblings or friends who want to share lessons
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