Swimming Lessons
Swimming Lessons at Live Active
At Live Active, we’re proud to deliver Scottish Swimming’s National Learn to Swim Programme, helping individuals of all ages gain vital swimming skills
Swimming is not only a life skill but also offers numerous health, social, and recreational benefits. Our lessons open the door to a wide range of aquatic activities!
What are you interested in?
Swimming lessons are delivered at the following venues:
Take advantage of our Direct Debit payment option to spread the cost of lessons throughout the year.
Dive in!
We offer Adult & Baby, Adult & Toddler, and Adult & Child classes to help develop water confidence from a young age.
Swimming lessons suitable for beginners, improvers and more advanced swimmers.
We offer Junior lessons covering Swim Skills 1- Club Ready to help them build their swimming skills.
Designed for those aged 16+ with limited swimming ability who want to improve their skills. Classes include Beginners, Improvers and Power Swim.
Our 1-2-2 lessons provide a more personalised experience, with just two students per instructor, offering extra support for those who need it.
Swim Early, Swim Safely
Children's Swimming Lessons
At Live Active, we believe learning to swim early is essential for ensuring your little heroes stay safe in the water – whether exploring Scotland’s waters or enjoying the pool on holiday.
Booking for our classes can be done online by accessing the Swimming Lessons HomePortal.
If you have any difficulties signing in or creating an account, please contact us at [email protected]
If you have questions or your child has prior swimming experience but you’re unsure of their level, please fill out our Swimming Lesson Enquiries Form for guidance here
Confident Swimming Starts Here
Adult Swimming Lessons (16 years and older)
Our Adult Swim Pathway is designed to help you build confidence in the water, whether you’re learning to swim for the first time or aiming to refine your technique. These structured and supportive classes cater to all levels, focusing on skill development and stroke efficiency to help you achieve your swimming goals.
Take the first step toward your swimming success by completing our Swimming Lesson Enquiries Form here.
Building Confidence Together
Adult and Child Swimming Lessons
Give your child a head start in the water with our Early Years Programme, designed for children from 3 months to preschool age.
Through structured play, games, and songs, we nurture water confidence, build core aquatic skills, and encourage independent movement. With three progressive stages – Adult & Baby, Adult & Toddler, and Adult & Child – this journey helps both children and parents/guardians grow in confidence in the water together.
Book your class online today. For details about specific venues, please complete our enquiry form here.
Swimming Made Accessible for Everyone
Additional Needs Swimming Lessons
At Live Active, we’re dedicated to ensuring everyone can enjoy the benefits of swimming, no matter their abilities or needs.
Our tailored Additional Support Needs (ASN) Swimming Lessons and inclusive Swim Sessions offer supportive and welcoming environments for participants of all ages.
Our venues provides unique opportunities for ASN swimming lessons, including small group settings and 1:1 instruction. These sessions are designed to cater to the individual needs and help participants gain confidence in the water.
To learn more about what your preferred venue offers or to join a waiting list, please complete our enquiry form here.
Swimming Levels and Scoring
If your child is 3 years or age, they will begin in a Preschool Beginner class.
If your child is attending school aged 5-7 years and has little to no prior swimming experience they will begin in Swim Skills 1A.
Depending on which venue you attend, you might be offered an Over 8 Swim Skills 1A if your child is new to lessons but 8 years+.
If you have a child who has some previous swimming experience, we can organise a swim test for your child for our instructors to see their ability and decide which of our levels would be best suited.
We are partnered with Scottish Swimming and so we use the Governing bodies criteria when assessing and placing children in our sessions.
Children should have achieved 4s and 5s on their assessment before moving to the next level.
If you have a child who has all 4s & 5s and an instructor hasn’t yet been in touch, you can contact your venue by filling in this form.
If your child appears to be struggling with one particular skill, you can contact the teaching team to ask for tips on how to best practice this by completing the form above.
Remember to use HomePortal to check your child’s progress here.
Scottish Swimming do have certificates; however, they are being phased out and are to be replaced by another form of digital reward. This hasn’t taken shape yet; however Scottish Swimming are busy behind the scenes and as soon as it’s ready, we’ll let you know! Until then, please ask in your venue if you’d like your child’s certificate. We have limited supply but are happy to distribute what we do have!
We now have digital certificates! A digital award can be requested in venue or via our contact form here and will be emailed over to you.
The general rule is that our instructors won’t mark your child down. In certain circumstances eg. long term absence from lessons, it might be the case that we do have to reduce scores upon a child’s return.
If an instructor disagrees with scores, they may well contact you to discuss before reassessing your child.
If your child attends our group preschool lessons, you will be offered an after-school group lesson space. We tend to allocate these around May time to allow the children time to settle into their later time with their new teachers. From experience, we’ve found that waiting till July to move everyone can cause stressed parents and unsettled children with too much going on all at once. That being said, if you’d rather wait till then, we will do our best to accommodate you.
If you have a child in our preschool 1-2-2 lessons, you will also be offered a group lesson place. Only if we have 1-2-2 availability after school would we be able to offer this to you.
Payments and direct debits
To cancel your swim lesson direct debit, you should contact the membership team via email at [email protected]
Our membership team will cancel any future payments and remove your child from the lesson programme. Please remember we require notice of cancellations to be with us prior to the 20th of the month to ensure we can process in time. Any cancellations received after the 20th, are likely to be charged once more on the 1st of the next month.
If you are in our group lessons (paying direct debit), we guarantee 47 lessons in any calander year. Should we be unable to provide you with 47 lessons, you would have your direct debit adjusted for one month to reflect the missing lesson.
All other lessons paid in blocks can either be refunded or if you intend on booking in for the upcoming block, you can have your next payment reduced accordingly.
Swimming Lessons HomePortal
The Swimming Lessons HomePortal is a place for you to check in on what level your child is currently working on, their instructor and the progress they are making.
You can access your HomePortal HERE.
Here is a brief overview of the score system on HomePortal;
- Unable to attempt skill
- Attempting skill but requires more practice
- Getting close to performing the skill to the required standard
- Can repeatedly perform skill at the required standard
- Aways performing the skill at the required standard or better
General Questions
Children in our lesson programme can gain access to our pools for family fun swimming, FREE OF CHARGE!
To update your child’s swimming instructor on medical details, you can complete this FORM.
It might be easy enough to pop on the form that your child has something like asthma and will need to keep an inhaler with them, however if it is something more complicated that would be best discussed, simply request a call from the instructor and this can be chatted through on the phone.
If you are in our group lesson programme (paying direct debit), lessons continue throughout the year. We only close for the Festive Season in December, and this is generally for 2 weeks.
All other lessons are booked and paid for in blocks. Your venue will be able to keep you up to date on how many sessions remain etc.
Our swimming instructors are using handheld devices to take registers and to update swimmers’ scores. These devices are completely locked and cannot be used for anything other than their purpose.
We no longer hold waiting lists for group swimming lessons. You can however book our beginner classes for both preschool (aged 3+) and school aged children through HomePortal which can be accessed here. If you have any issues booking or accessing, please contact [email protected]
To change the day/time of the swimming lesson, you need to contact the venue. You can do this at reception or by filling in this FORM.
For swimmer SS1 to SS3 we will only provide one swimming lesson per week.
For children who are in our SS4 & CR classes, there is an opportunity to take part in 2 lessons per week. This allows the children to better progress and build stamina as this is a strong focus of these levels as well as perfecting good technique.
The swimming instructors don’t have time to chat during the lessons as they move from one class straight to the next. If you do have a query regarding your child and their progress, or wish to have a chat with their instructor, you can fill in this FORM and your query will be passed to the instructor.
We want everyone who swims with us to enjoy lessons! If you feel your child is no longer enjoying their sessions, please use this FORM to contact the team and your child’s instructor can be in touch to discuss further.
