Start your swimming teacher course

Price: £550                                                                                            Duration: 5 days

This course will teach you to deliver safe, progressive, engaging, and active swimming lessons to a variety of learners, from non-swimmers to improvers, including both children and adults. This course will give you the knowledge, understanding and skills to be able to plan, deliver and evaluate safe, fun, progressive and inclusive lessons to adult and child learn to swim participants. Within a positive learning environment, you will be able teach the essential swimming skills, strokes and water safety, appropriate to the participant’s needs across all ability groups.

 This qualification replaces STA’s previous Award and Certificate structure, bringing everything together into one comprehensive Level 2 qualification.

This course is blended delivery and allocated blended learning should be completed prior to attending the face-to-face days. You will need access to a device for the blended learning and throughout the course. 

Course requirements

You must be 16 years of age or older.

Full course specification can be found here.

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Price: £350                                                                                            Duration: 4 days
This qualification is for individuals, who wish to work with babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers and their accompanying adults. No prior experience of working with children or teaching swimming lessons is required. The course will teach you how to deliver safe, progressive, and engaging baby and pre-school lessons, with an emphasis on a child-focused approach.  During the course you will deliver lessons in our SWIMBiES programme, working with babies from 3 months old through to 4 years old. You will learn about the essential baby swimming skills, the core holds, child development, cues and reflexes to enable you to understand how to deliver progressive and suitable lessons that meet the needs of the parent and child.

The course will introduce you to the principles of effective baby and pre-school teaching skills, looking at health and safety, communication, organisational methods, motivation and feedback, as well as how to plan and evaluate your teaching skills. You will learn a range of activities, songs and progressions throughout the course.

Course requirements

• You must be 18 years of age or older
• Hold the Safeguarding Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults online learning certificate or acceptable equivalent

Full course specification can be found here.

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Price: £350.00                                                                           Duration: 3 days

The STA Award in Aquatic Teaching – Disability Swimming aims to train learners to teach aquatic activities to disabled individuals and groups. This qualification is for learners who wish to work with participants who have a disability in mainstream or disability swimming lessons and help them to develop both as swimmers and individuals in the aquatic environment.The STA Award in Aquatic Teaching – Disability Swimming aims to train learners to teach aquatic activities to disabled individuals and groups. This qualification is for learners who wish to work with participants who have a disability in mainstream or disability swimming lessons and help them to develop both as swimmers and individuals in the aquatic environment.Swimming has amazing benefits for everyone, and even more so for those with disabilities. If you want to help people with disabilities experience swimming in a safe environment, then this is the course for you.

Course requirements

• You must be 16 years of age or older
• Hold the STA Award in Teaching Swimming or acceptable equivalent (please note the ASA Level 1 Award in Aquatic Teaching is not an acceptable pre-requisite)

Full course specification can be found here.

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