Turtle Tots Salisbury District Blandford & West Hants
WELCOME TO Turtle Tots Salisbury District Blandford & West Hants
Welcome to Turtle Tots Salisbury, Blandford & West Hants! We are a baby-led specialist swim school for little people aged between 0 and four year old and their parents or carers! We offer baby and toddler swimming lessons and aquanatal classes for pregnant mummies.
We operate in a number of different warm water pools in the areas of Salisbury, Fordingbridge, Wincanton & Sturminster Newton ( Blandford Forum).
Our classes are a fantastic opportunity to bond with your baby away from all the noises and distractions of everyday life and to help them to learn life-saving skills like holding on, splashing in safely and as we move through the toddler programme, through an imaginative and play based style of lessons, we help facilitate your toddlers journey to beautiful swimming on the surface and under the water.
Swimming helps your baby in all of the following ways: gross motor and fine motor skills development, developing core strength and stamina, providing exercise for your baby which can in turn aid good eating and sleeping patterns, learning language through the words we say and the songs we sing, emotional intelligence as we describe how they might be feeling out loud and so much more!
For parents, it's a chance to enjoy an activity with your little one and you very much guide them in their learning, after all we are teaching you how to teach your baby to swim! In addition, it can be a great way to meet other like-minded families and enjoy social time after the class together.
We also offer Turtle Tums, our wonderful pregnancy aqua-natal yoga classes! These offer pregnant mums-to-be precious time to themselves to bond with their babies and learn key relaxation and breathing techniques as well as yoga positions all in the calming and soothing environment that is water!
At Turtle Tots, we like to be customer- focused and offer catch up classes and a flexible payment scheme too. We also have a full range of swim equipment to get you started on your swimming journey, so please check out the shop to see if there is anything you would like to purchase. We do a range of starter equipment sets with discounts which you will be emailed out as part of the joining instructions. We deliver your order directly to you at the pool via your teacher.
We look forward to welcoming you to the wonderful world of Turtle Tots!
My name is Becky and I live in Fordingbridge on the edge of the beautiful New Forest National Park with my husband and two children Fin and Charlie.
Swimming, snorkelling and scuba-diving have all been part of my life for a very long time- I've always loved the water. After hanging up my fins to have children, I attended a baby swimming class with my son Fin, loved it and thought " I can do this!". Nine years later and I’ve never looked back! Teaching babies and toddlers to swim is officially the best job in the world!
To complement my swimming teaching and aid my understanding of babies and their development, I became an NCT Antenatal teacher and taught classes in Fordingbridge. Since then, I have completed an Aquanatal yoga qualification which is a partnership between Turtle Tots and Birthlight & enables me to bring my knowledge of birth together with my experience of working in the water to mums-to-be!
Finally, I completed the Level 3 Diploma in Swim teaching which involved a lot of research into areas such as communication, play and the sensory needs of children, this is the highest qualification available in the swimming industry. I believe my knowledge and understanding of babies combined with my swimming teaching experience will ensure you are in good hands!
I’m delighted to offer Turtle Tots swimming lessons in the area and would love to talk to you further about the Turtle Tots difference. Please contact me on 07752 654165; becky.eakins@turtletots.com or visit: https://www.facebook.com/turtletotssalisbury
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Becky Eakins
After teaching adults to dive as a hobby, Becky found her dream job in water when she took her son Fin to a baby swimming class! Leaving a career in marketing behind, she became a swim teacher and now a franchise owner and has never looked back!
Laura Webb
Laura is our amazing and incredibly talented & thorough Administrator, she manages catch ups and rebooking as well as customer enquiries/orders. Previously, she was an experienced PA and shop manager in Fordingbridge.
Yas Austin
Yas is one of our fabulous teachers! She's a very creative, gentle and intuitive teacher, able to build fabulous relationships with children and parents alike. With her other hat on, Yas manages the Field Palmer Estate Agents in Southampton.
Terri Stacey
Terri is one of our brilliant teachers! She teaches in Wincanton, Sturminster Newton and Shaftesbury. She was primary school teacher previously so she has amazing experience of working with small people :-) Her lessons are always well thought through with lots of different strategies up her sleeve for when things don't quite go to plan!