The ending of last week’s half term marks the successful completion of our latest 4-day holiday crash courses. Run throughout our swimming calendar, current and new swimmers alike join a crash course to build skills and practise techniques. As this additional support can be welcome at every level, we cater for three-year-old pre-schoolers and beyond at our holiday lessons. Many find choosing a holiday crash course is an ideal way to trial a sequence of lessons, experiencing our teaching methods for themselves. Smoothing out bad habits That’s what Cameron’s mum, Catherine, found on finishing th ..read more

Without swimming in their lives, children with ASD and ADHD miss out on a potentially lifesaving opportunity plus the sport’s health and fitness benefits too. And they aren’t given the therapeutic and calming experience of safely being in water. That’s why we believe as many people as possible should learn to swim, including children with ASD and ADHD. Full sensory experience Water is a soothing environment that can feel calming for autistic children, reducing the impact of sounds and disruptions that make daily life unsettling. They find water gently stimulating, and this calm state has shown ..read more

Sharing the advantages and benefits of learning to swim and helping others to thrive is something Angela takes very seriously. She has been delighted over recent months to regularly speak on these topics on Made in Kent radio. Plus, our radio ads have been regularly going out across the airwaves on the station’s weekend family-orientated show. Don’t worry if you’ve not been able to tune in as we’ve pulled together her full back catalogue all in one place. Adult radio commercial for Made in Kent radio Child radio commercial for Made in Kent radio Water safety The first role of swimming is as li ..read more

Angela’s Swim School is very much a family firm and Neil Wilson, Angela’s husband, has been our head of finance and a director of the firm for three years. To help his recovery, Neil’s doctor recommended regular supervised swimming sessions. Neil has always been a regular at the gym and considered himself fit and healthy. So, suffering three strokes after complications with a back procedure two years ago came totally out of the blue. For a year it took away his ability to drive and left him feeling disorientated and down. To help his recovery, Neil’s .doctor recommended regular supervised sw ..read more

So great having my husband Neil by my side and joining me on Made in Kent radio. He took time out of his schedule as swim school Director to talk about a day neither of us will ever forget. On our first holiday together, we were swimming side-by-side in beautiful clear seas. The water was so calm you couldn’t tell that it dropped from shallow to deep water really fast. Realising he was in too deep Neil started to panic. I realised he was getting into difficulty and instinctively put him on his back and swam him into shore. Not a good enough swimmer That was the day Neil realised he wasn’t a st ..read more

Being in water is a fantastic sensory experience most babies take to straight away. However, some need a bit more time to settle in. The answer for that is to keep calm and keep attending lessons. It’s a phase that doesn’t last long and our instructors know exactly how to get the best out of your baby. Here’s how our swimmer Charlotte fell in love with swimming after getting off to a rocky start at the pool. Charlotte’s been swimming at our school since she was a four month old baby. Her mum remembers all too clearly that back then Charlotte didn’t initially enjoy the lessons. In fact, she was ..read more

This World Autism Acceptance Week (27 March to 2 April 2023) Angela’s Swim School is announcing that fundraising has begun for its Get2Swim scheme. The swim school will be collaborating with disabled children’s charity We Are Beams to fundraise for children with ASD or ADHD. Having been there herself As a mum to an adopted daughter with ASD and ADHD swim school founder Angela knows how hard it can be for schools to extend curriculum swimming lessons to children with these conditions. In fact, her daughter Katie was only able to take lessons with her school because, as a trained swimming i ..read more

Stories of sporting challenges and opportunities inspire the next generation as Angela is delighted to be part of the ‘inspire excellence’ event at a Tonbridge school yesterday, Monday 23 January. She delivered a heart-felt talk to the girls of Somerhill sharing her journey from swimmer to entrepreneur; how she returned from sporting disappointments, and how her drive to help others was the start of her teaching business. Angela visited the school alongside footballer Alessia Russo, who delivered that unforgettable back-kick goal in England’s 4-0 win over Sweden in the UEFA Women’s Euros 2022 ..read more

Phoebe swims weekly at Hilltop School, Rochester, and has been with us since she was three. Choosing lessons over committing to a swimming club is proving to be the perfect training ground for her. That’s after seeing her recent performance in the Mini Youth Games (MYG) Swimming Gala, a sports competition open to all Medway primary schools. In our Swimstylers lessons for children, Ultra Marine level is especially designed to build up skills for swimming lengths. That’s everything needed for distance swims in front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke. Achieving those skills takes plenty of focus ..read more

Adults join our lessons for so many reasons. Some come to relearn techniques learnt as children in our Improver and Advanced classes. Our Adult Beginner sessions see novice swimmers take their very first lessons or revisit a skill they started as a child. For most of our beginners they’ve come to turn around a fear of water they’ve carried for years. Getting comfortable with water That was very much Michael’s experience before joining us. As a total non-swimmer he was scared to get into a pool and thought he would never learn to swim. He’s amazed that after just two terms he’s now comfortable ..read more