Your Child Deserves The Best!
In an unregulated industry, make sure you make the right choice when it comes to baby, toddler, and preschool swimming lessons. Not only are we industry specialists, but our world-class teachers are also highly trained to deliver our award-winning swim programme.
Leading the Way for Teaching Standards
Believe it or not, swimming is an unregulated activity in the UK which means that anyone can offer swimming classes without the right qualifications, skills, certification, or experience.
At Turtle Tots, we believe that our customers deserve better. We work closely with the internationally recognised Swimming Teachers Association (STA) to ensure that all Turtle Tots teachers are trained to the highest possible standards. In fact, we are proud to say that our teachers are amongst the most highly trained and qualified swimming teachers in the world.
We take the safety of our customers incredibly seriously. Not only do all our teachers hold the STA Swimming Teachers Award, Baby and Preschool Award, and Lifesaving qualification, they hold a valid DBS certification and have completed a Safeguarding Children, Young People & Vulnerable Adults certified course.
Not only are our teachers equipped with the best qualifications in the industry, but every teacher also completes the rigorous Turtle Tots training programme, delivered by industry leading instructors. Their training ensures that they can deliver our swimming lessons consistently to the highest standards, but also understand more about babies and young children’s developmental stages, how they communicate in the pre-verbal stage, how their early brains develop, the importance of early attachment and how best to support babies’ learning during this critical early stage of life.
They hold or are working towards the STA’s Level 3 baby & Preschool Diploma – expanding their knowledge into child psychology and neuroscience, which has led to changing theories on how young children learn.
But beyond all of this, it’s our teacher’s natural warmth, empathy and dedication that makes us stand head and shoulders above other swim schools. Many of our teachers are also parents and bought their children to Turtle Tots classes when they were little. They understand what it is like to bring your little one into a swimming pool for the first time and understand the feelings of joy, and sometimes anxiety, that come with starting a new activity. They feel what you feel and are ready to adapt to your, and you child’s, needs at every stage.
