watersplash swim academy
SWIMMING LESSONS FOR CONFIDENT SWIMMERS
Welcome to the new and improved Watersplash Swim Academy, the next exciting step for confident swimmers who have completed Level 6 of the Watersplash Swim School programme.
Designed for swimmers looking to go further, offering a challenging and rewarding pathway that can develop technique, stamina and performance within the water. More than just swimming lessons, now taking it to the next level by encouraging swimmers to make a commitment to regular training and continuous improvement.
The Academy is built around the middle ground between learning to swim and learning to train. Swimmers now train alongside others of similar ability without the pressures that come from clubs, such as competing. Helps the swimmers to build their self-confidence, find resilience and gain some motivation whilst swimming.
In the Academy there are four levels:
– Aspire
– Star
– Pro
– Elite
Each level is supported by its own certificates and clear assessment criteria, enabling swimmers to track their progress and celebrate their successes. Alongside this, our Distance Certificates encourage swimmers to push their endurance, starting at 200 metres and building all the way to an impressive 3,000 metres.
The Watersplash journey celebrates success at every stage!
Days and Times
Tuesdays 6-7pm
Thursdays 6-7pm
Friday 6.30-7.30pm
Saturday 12.30-1pm
Sunday 6-7pm
Term dates for the Autumn Term 2025
4th September 2025 – 19th December 2025
The Marlborough Science Academy fees for Swim Fitness:
Cost: 1 child £162.50
2 children £325
3 children £463.13
WATERSPLASH SWIM ACADEMY CERTIFICATES OF ACHIEVEMENT
WATERSPLASH SWIM ACADEMY DISTANCE CERTIFICATES
term-time swimming lessons in St albans
ASPIRE ACHIEVEMENT CRITERIA
Skills Section
- Demonstrate a tumble turn to a competent standard
- Execute touch turns for all 4 strokes competently
- Show a sculling sequence for 2 minutes
- Show a racing dive with underwater transition on front crawl with a 25m swim
- Swim 10m then head first surface dive to swim underwater and pass through 2 hoops spaced 5m apart before resurfacing
- Tread water for 3 minutes with the ability to answer water safety questions simultaneously
Swim Section
- Swim 600m as 300m front crawl and 300m backstroke
STAR ACHIEVEMENT CRITERIA
Skills Section
- Swim 100m front crawl in less than two minutes and thirty seconds. With correct start and turns throughout
- Scull head first 10m, then tuck knees up and rotate 360 degrees and then return to the starting point in feet first sculling
- Demonstrate a backstroke start with underwater transition into a 50m backstroke swim with correct turn and finish
- Perform a 10m front crawl swim then forward somersault and further 10m swim smoothly and without pause
- Tread water for 3 minutes with one hand behind the back. May change hand at halfway
- Show a head first surface dive and feet first surface dive to retrieve an object returning to the side on back carrying object each time
Swim Section
- Swim 800m as 400m on the front, 300m on the back and 100m breaststroke within 30 minutes
PRO ACHIEVEMENT CRITERIA
Skills Section
- Swim 100m front crawl in less than two minutes. With correct start, turns and finishes throughout
- Scull 10m feet-first followed by a forward roll and continue feet first scull further 10m
- Perform a racing dive with underwater breaststroke transition and 25m breaststroke swim with correct finish
- Perform a racing dive with underwater butterfly transition and 25m swim
- Tread water for 3 minutes with one hand raised above the head the whole time. May change hand a maximise of 5 times, then go straight into a head first surface dive and feet first surface dive passing through a hoop on each occasion then swim to the end no goggles to be used
- Dive from poolside into deep water, retrieve dive brick, resurface and kick 20m on back retaining brick on chest, the climb out shallow end
Swim Section
- Swim 1000m as 400m front crawl, 400m backstroke and 200m breaststroke within 30 minutes
ELITE ACHIEVEMENT CRITERIA
Skills Section
- Make a straddle entry swim 5 metres into a head first surface dive (in pike position) to retrieve an object then swim to end of pool using side stroke.
- Swim 200m Front crawl in lesson than 4 minutes, correct starts, turns and finishes throughout
- Swim 100m individual medley in less than 2 minutes 30 seconds with correct starts and turns and finishes throughout
- Scull 10m feet first into backwards somersault ending in a layout position, roll onto front and demonstrate a forwards roll, roll on to back and continue to end of length head first sculling
- Dive from poolside into deep water and retrieve brick, swim 20m on front with brick extended out in front, then climb out shallow end
- Show all racing starts with underwater transition phases with 50m swim including correct turns and finishes
Swim Section – must be completed continuously without a break
- Swim 1500m broken down into 500m front crawl during which they must do four surface dives of which two are head-first and two feet-first through two hoops 2m apart, 500m backstroke and 500m front crawl in under 30 minutes