Introducing The Flipper Academy - Youth Swim Programme

At The Flipper Club we are aware that as children move to the end of the Swim England ‘learn to swim’ programme, other sports entice them away from the pool or a choice is made to move into competitive club swimming. We are updating our youth swimming programme to offer swimmers a more exciting reason to continue swimming with us - for fun, fitness and new skills. We are calling this our ‘Flipper Academy’. Within the 1 hour academy sessions, swimmers will follow swim sets, outcomes from the Learn to Swim Stages 9- 10, practice technique and also learn aquatic skills such as water polo, diving, artistic swimming and at least once per term have a mono fin / mermaid session at the pool. 

Alongside the 1 hour sessions already on offer on a Tuesday and Thursday evening at Dunottar School, we are adding in a 1 hour session on a Sunday at 4.30pm for the younger youth swimmers, to help build their swim stamina before moving to one of the midweek sessions.