Soft Play Refurbishment:

Our Polar Adventure soft play area will be temporarily closed from 16th September until 21st October while we transform our soft play into an action-packed Amazon Adventure soft play. Find out more about our refurbishment here.

At Maidstone Leisure Centre we pride ourselves on delivering high quality swimming lessons in a relaxed, fun environment across all of our pools, with fully-qualified instructors to help you every splash of the way, whether you’re looking to learn a life skill or become more confident in the water.

Adult & Child Swimming Lessons

These swimming lessons are perfect for building water confidence in adults alongside their babies and toddlers. Through games and songs, the lessons are an exciting bonding activity to help develop important developmental and social skills that leads to preparation towards independent swimming lessons.

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Pre-School Swimming Lessons

Pre-School swimming lessons are for children aged 3 & 4 years old. These swimming lessons with the use of games and songs start children's independent journey to a lifelong love of water. Class sizes are a maximum of 1 teacher to 6 children.

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Children's Swimming Lessons

Help your child learn a valuable life skill by enrolling on our swimming lessons. Watch their confidence soar as they develop a love for the water. Each of our lessons include a variety of skills including core aquatics skills, water safety and stroke development. Our children's swimming lessons are for all school age children.

Prices for Swimming Lessons start from £36.95

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Rookie Lifeguard Lessons

RLSS UK’s Rookie Lifeguard programme gives your child the skills they need to be confident in the pool or the sea – which means peace of mind for you. With colourful materials and fun, varied activities, the Rookie Lifeguard scheme teaches children how to enjoy water safely, whether in shallow or deeper water.

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Teenage Swimming Lessons

Our teenage swimming lessons are aimed at secondary school aged participants. These lessons follow the same scheme as our children's programme but in classes and pool space more comfortable for the swimmers.

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Disability Lessons

Our disability specific swimming lessons are for those swimmers with SEND who find a mainstream swimming lesson too challenging. These lessons use adapted and modified teaching practices to support and meet a participant’s individual needs and goals in a safe and inclusive environment.

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Diving Lessons

Our diving lessons offer children the opportunity to learn new, exciting sport specific diving skills. They will progress up to springboards and platforms to develop their diving skills, Any child can join once they can confidently swim a minimum of 25 metres in deep water.

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Adult Swimming Lessons

Our varied adult swimming lessons are suitable for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced swimmers who would just like some additional coaching to improve their technique. These lessons are for those aged 16 upwards with no upper age limit.

Adults have very different needs to children when learning to swim – as an adult, you have different motivations and learn in different ways. Our adult swimming lessons take this into account, providing clear goals and targets.

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Schools Swimming Lessons

Water safety is a vital life skill, which is why it is a mandatory part of the curriculum for PE at primary school.

The curriculum says pupils should be taught to perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

If your primary or secondary school, or community group is looking for a facility to host their swimming programme then please get in touch.

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Fit Together

Get fit together with a £19.95 swimming membership if your child is on swimming lessons with us.

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If you're a new member looking to join us for the first time or a returning member looking to get back into your fitness, simply contact us with your membership enquiry and a member of the team will be in touch as soon as possible.

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We host the Swim England ‘Learn to Swim Pathway’ for all ages and abilities. Lessons are fun and engaging, with badges and certificates awarded to reward progress and giving you full access to the next stage, keeping you motivated to achieve your goals.