You can use this page to discover the amazing benefits of baby swimming and find out what our Water Babies graduates have been up to.
It's more important than ever to give our children the opportunity to embrace the gift of swimming. Moving their arms and legs in the water, finding their balance and working those new found muscles are incredibly important for helping children tackle the world. Not just that, but we've heard that it tuckers them out brilliantly, giving mum, dad or carer a chance to get some well deserved shut-eye.
During ‘National Baby Swimming Week’, we’ll be visiting ‘Echo’s Learning Lab’ in our lessons. Alongside Pearl, we’ll be learning the benefits of baby swimming, and how the skills we teach help little ones to learn a skill for life and #BecomeSwimvincible.
This National Baby Swimming Week, we want to raise awareness of all the benefits early years swimming can bring, highlighting how little ones can learn to become swimvincible through understanding how to swim safely.
Our Head of Scientific Research
Echo comes at swimming and water play from a purely scientific standpoint. Always one to pop up with an interesting fact, or a compelling stat, he was recruited to spread the word about how swimming has been shown to improve memory, cognitive function, immune response, and mood in children. On a mission to educate and excite, his favourite catchphrase is “the sooner you swim, the smarter you’ll be.”
The youngest of the group, Pearl is keen to learn everything and always moves at a million miles an hour – keeping the other swimvincibles on their toes. A huge fan of jumping overboard to swim with Bubba the whale by holding onto one of his fins, Pearl can be a real handful but is a true water baby. She’ll make friends with any water dwelling creature. She always says to her Water Babies friends “I’m flipping like a pancake”.
Besides the obvious safety benefits, baby swimming lessons are one of the best things you can do to bond with your baby, as well as being excellent for their development: they help little ones develop learning skills, boost their confidence, improve their co-ordination and enhance their wellbeing.
Swim, eat, sleep, repeat. Swimming helps regulate all of these essential activities.
Babies and toddlers who swim with us have...
Compared to non-swimmers, water babies are top of the class when it comes to cognitive development.
Griffith University of Queensland, Australia found that children that had swum as babies were...
Swimming with us provides you with the perfect backdrop to support the bond between you and your little one.
Aquasphere proudly supports National Baby Swim Week to promote water safety and early childhood development. We believe in fostering a lifelong love for swimming from a young age, ensuring children gain essential aquatic skills while enjoying a fun and safe environment.
Our commitment to this event reflects our dedication to promoting healthy lifestyles and ensuring that families experience the joy of swimming together. Our goggles and masks are a crucial tool to enhance comfort and confidence in the water, promoting a positive swimming experience. We are thrilled to be part of an initiative that encourages water confidence, bonding, and safety, ultimately contributing to the well-being of future generations.
ukactive exists to improve the health of the nation by getting more people, more active, more often. It also provides a range of relevant services, and works in partnership with a range organisations from across the whole sport and leisure industry.
As a strategic partner, ukactive are supporting National Baby Swimming Week and raising awareness of the benefits baby and toddler swimming can bring to families. We are actively collaborating together to champion the importance of activity in early years, from providing support across our channels, to Water Babies being a speaker on the latest ukactive Virtual Membership Update Webinar to discuss National Baby Swimming Week.
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As parents, we're constantly searching for ways to enhance our little one's development while creating memorable experiences. One activity that ticks all the boxes is baby swimming. Not only does it offer a unique bonding experience, but it also provides a wide array of benefits for both you and your precious bundle of joy. In this blog, we'll dive into the wonderful world of baby swimming and explore the numerous advantages it brings.
Plus, to ensure your journey into swimming with your little one is as fun and relaxing as possible we want to share some of our top ‘Slipfree® Family Swimming Hacks’ to keep tucked away with your swimming kit…
A total of 3879 families took part in this study.
491 respondents had swam with other swim schools previously. These ranged from other privately owned swim schools to local swim schools in public pools.
Overwhelmingly, water safety and water confidence are priorities for parents and guardians.
When asked to describe their experience of their Water Babies’ lessons, there were a wide range of words used including but not limited to ‘fun’, ‘safe’, ‘supportive’ and ‘engaging’.
Research was carried out by the independent experts at Good Play Guide.
1 The Early Years Swimming Research Project, Griffith University
2 Norwegian University of Science and Technology
3 German Sports College, Cologne