30 minute swimming lesson

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Is 30 minutes the average length of a swimming lesson?

I guess I expected it to last longer, not sure how much can be learnt in 30 mins once a week.
Council pool, £30 a month if that makes a difference.

Yes. Same here. It seems to work both mine have gone through all stages and moved on too rookie life saving.

Completely normal. I paid £26 a month a few years ago for a 30 min lesson per week in a class of no mare than 10 kids for a guaranteed 48 lessons per year. My kids learned to swim absolutely fine. Instructor wasn't in the pool either.

Yep, ours is the same. Also council run, we pay £20 a month. More than enough imo, DD is shattered when she gets out.

30 minutes in the pool is generally long enough especially when children advance and do lots of lengths.

The difficulty we’ve had is when there are too many children in a group lesson so the time passes very quickly with very little swimming - again not as much of an issue when kids are more advanced but is an issue when they need lots of input from their teacher 1:1

Yes, all of my dcs' swim lessons have been 30 mins. It is a faff getting them ready for such a short lesson, but it seems to be standard.

I'm a swimming teacher 30 minutes is more than adequate time for a lesson to keep them engaged, any longer and they be exhausted, school swimming is 45 minutes but bigger groups the only time it's an hour session or longer is club level swimming.

For a lesson 30 mins is more than enough, and will probably be quite tiring.

You don’t need to swim more than that until you are in the “training phase” where your basic technique is good enough that you can swim multiple lengths easily, and are working “sets” to increase stamina as well as style.

30 mins is pretty standard, although I’ve come across shorter for small kids on their first stage of independent lessons (ie: without a parent). Any longer and young kids generally lose concentration and start to get cold.

Ours are 30 mins too. £36 per month at a private club.

Most 1 to 1s are 30 minutes long op and cost an average of 20 per lesson.

My children have attended swimming lessons which have lasted 1/2 hour. It can be tiring for the children otherwise.

When my children attended lessons at the local leisure centre, there was 1 instructor and up to 12 children. They barely learned anything as I felt there were too many children in the group and each child did about 3-5 widths of swimming.

We moved them to private lessons, which were more expensive (although not hugely so) and they were in groups of 2-6. Each child swam about 10 widths, so made much quicker progress.

Yes that’s standard for children. Any longer and they either lose interest or get tired.

My two do private lessons with an instructor and its still only 30 mins slots.

Yes standard, they get tired, bored, cold and lose interest. Mine got stuck in stage 4 for bloody ages but by the time we went into lockdown they had completed stage 8 at age 7 so it does work.

Confidence is key IMO so I always took them swimming outside of lessons and made them actually swim a few lengths before they could play.

Out of interest op how long did you expect the lessons to last for and how old are you dc?

Yes, that's standard and having done lessons as an adult I'd say it's probably long enough, i used to be mentally and physically tired at the end of it!

My ds has exactly that, at that price. Has gone up to grade 5 in four years.

Yes 30 mins here too. Ours are private and £15 per lesson per child (no space on council ones locally). Half an hour is plenty.

Thanks, totally normal then. I've found private lessons for £40 a month that guarantee no more than 4 in a group which sounds good.

The council run ones are fine. Just go with the cheapest option, it's swimming not rocket science.

Most kids grasp it fairly quickly.

It's 30 minutes at my local leisure centre.

30 minutes standard.
The only time it's been an issue for us is when DD was in a lower group and the teacher insisted on the children swimming only 1 at a time. Sometimes DD would only manage 2 widths in the whole lesson.

Normally they get plenty of swimming done though.

I agree that you need to also take them swimming outside of lessons just to play around in the water.

30 mins is standard. DD1 has done both private lessons and council crash courses of 5 lessons a week. She definitely learns more from the private lessons in a smaller group.

Ours (council pool) are 30 mins until the higher stages. I've got one in stage 5 doing lengths and one in stage 3 doing widths and they do use their energy while doing it. They get more active as they build up the swimming timd and in the lengths, there is far less waiting. When they were younger, their attention drifted.

School swimming is 30 mins too.