Little Dippers
We at Little Dippers are teaching babies to love the water! We have a range of classes available from an introduction to the water in a warm and playful environment to teaching valuable swimming skills and techniques. We also offer pregnancy aqua natal yoga classes for expecting mums. We strongly believe that it is best for babies to start our Foundation course before they reach the age of 1, and with that in mind, we have found that most parents come to us when their babies are between 8 and 24 weeks.
Our classes includes:
- Pregnancy Aqua Natal Yoga Classes – Working in association with Birthlight Aqua natal yoga, our Loving Your Bump exercise classes are specifically designed for pregnant women in the water.
- Foundation: Percy the Penguin – An fun introduction to swimming which includes swim holds and back floating positions, bath time homework and key word association which leads onto early swimming and self rescue skills. Plus we do gentle submersions.
- Stage 2: Billie the Beaver – We build on reaching and kicking exercises. Plus we introduce underwater turns to teach your baby to turn back to safety, and learn to breathe between submersions.
- Stage 3: Constance the Crab – Completing longer independent underwater swims, dips off the side to turn back to safety and hold on. Plus replicating the act of falling into the water, and we continue to build on back floating.
- Stage 4: Freida the Frog – We introduce noodles to increase independence and teach them buoyancy, and we introduce the dive position.
- Stage 5: Ollie the Octopus – Babies learn through nursery rhymes, games and songs. With self rescue skills now becoming natural, we exercise are practise through play with a view of them doing it unaided.
- Stage 6: Oscar the Orca – We move towards independent self rescue and swimming. Exercises are carried out through lots of song and play including longer swims, practicing rolling onto their backs from underwater. Plus with the use of noodles, fun and games, we encourage arm paddling and leg kicking movements.
- Stage 7: Sammy the Seal – We do fun underwater swims which now involve swimming through hoops and “tunnels”, and we prepare them to move onto toddler swim school.
As an added bonus, we are also offering an underwater photography service. Seeing your baby swimming underwater is an amazing experience so with our help, you can have the opportunity to capture it all in a photograph so that you can treasure it forever. The primary photographer we use for our shoots is Zac Macaulay who is a professional underwater photographer with an extensive portfolio of images.
Please do not hesitate to get in contact with us for further information on any of our services – we would love to hear from you! Alternatively you can visit our social media pages to hear about our latest adventures, news and deals.
We have several warm water pools across Brighton, London and Surrey including:
- The Littles Dippers Centre, East Sussex, BN1
- Hassocks, West Sussex, BN6
- Chiswick, East London, W4
- Elephant & Castle, SE17
- Royal Hospital, Chelsea, SW3
- Oxshott, Surrey, KT22
- Pregnancy Aqua Natal Yoga, Brighton, BN1
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