Puddle Ducks are award winning providers of swimming lessons to babies, toddlers, pre-school and school age children. The classes are designed to promote bonding, water confidence and water safety in a fun and loving environment. The structured programme is designed to help develop their natural affinity with the water and encourage them to learn to swim independently.
Poppy, started her lessons at Palms Leisure Centre at 5 months.
She absolutely loved the first session. She loves splashing….but her favourite part was the safety turning. This teaches babies how to tread water and also meant, she got to have a cuddle with Mummy! We can’t wait for next weeks session already 😊 we even got a cute Puddle Ducks nappy! 🦆 You wear these over the swim nappies to ensure any accidents are enclosed!
Swimming is great, they come out smiley, really hungry and then they have a big sleep!! Poppy was really growing in water confidence so quickly!
Every week with Puddle Ducks is so much fun! Hands free swimming in the pool with Poppy laid on my tummy whilst I floated with the woggle (we had to give her a little duck to keep her entertained!) was just a lovely experience. Baby swimming really encourages bonding and allows parent / carer and baby to have really lovely experiences together.
Poppy loved jumping into the pool and splashing around. This eventually turns into paddling and then swimming! The free play at the end of the sessions was always a highlight and she always picked the watering can, just so she could have her head sprinkled with water!
Our sessions with Puddle Ducks were the highlight of the week. Daddy even took his turn allowing Poppy to show off all her new skills! The sessions have defiantly made her a lot more confident in the water and she is not phased by having water over her face or being dunked!
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We would definitely recommend Puddle Ducks, the staff were super friendly and just generally lovely people! Poppy gained so much confidence in the water after just a few sessions which was so nice to see. She really enjoyed the lessons and loved the little free play at the end of each group!
The baby and pre-school programme is offered through five levels:
Floaties (0-6 months), Splashers (6-15 months), Kickers (15 months – 2.5 years), Little Dippers (2-5 years) and Dippers (2-5 years)
We run classes 7 days a week across York, Hull and East Yorkshire including the Palms Leisure Club (Main Street, Carnaby, Bridlington, YO16 4UJ) where classes take place on Saturday mornings:
9:00am – Little Dippers
9:30am – Kickers
10:00am – Splashers
10:30am – Little Dippers
11:00am – Dippers (existing customers only)
*Poppu and her Mum enjoy using Scarborough & Whitby Mumbler and often send reviews in to help other Mums find out what is good in the area. For the purpose of this review, they received a free term. Rest assured, no amount of gifts would ever lead us, at Scarborough & Whitby Mumbler, to give you a false review.
