Swimming: The Ultimate After School Activity
Swimming is the ultimate after school activity. Either for retaining and improvement of skills, as a compliment for other sports, stress relief or spending that pinned up energy from the class room, exercise or socialization and building friendships. Year-round swimming lessons help kids retain and improve their water safety skills throughout the year. With more […]
British Swim School Water Survival Lessons
Why does water survival need to be taught? Isn’t it just instinctive – like when grandpa used to throw his grandkids into the water and expect them to doggie paddle? Water survival isn’t instinctive and everyone needs lessons. When we hear “water survival”, we know it is important for all of us. But where do […]
Meet Coach Kayla
Coach Kayla is a young women with many talents! Born and raised in North Carolina, Kayla grew up on a farm where she truly lived the ‘Old McDonald’ life-style. It is there that she, along with her 2 siblings, helped take in and care for all kinds of animals. After highschool, Coach Kayla left the […]
Top 5 Non-Candy Valentine’s Day Gifts
Are you tired of giving your kids candy? It seems every holiday or special occasion revolves around giving our children sweet treats. Jelly beans for Easter, cake & ice cream for birthdays, chocolates for Valentine’s Day and the biggest culprit of them all, Halloween! When you think about it, there are so many other fun […]
Who is Coach Alex?
Coach Alex is a one of a kind guy. Not only is he a great swim coach, he is also an accomplished competitive swimmer, he is a lover of traveling and antiquing and to our excitement, has recently become our British Swim School Franchises’ Director of Operations. Alex has been a life-long swim enthusiast. Since […]
British Swim School Chicago Announces JCC Chicago Partnership
British Swim School is proud to announce their upcoming partnership with JCC Chicago. Several Jewish Community Centers of Chicago (JCC Chicago) locations, in the greater Chicago area, will be transitioning their aquatics program to ‘British Swim Schools’ water survival and learn to swim program. British Swim School will not only be offering its aquatics program […]
British Swim School in the Wall Street Journal
On September 4th, the Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled “The New Wave of Supercharged Swim Classes”. The article opened with the description of a mother who has been taking her six-month-old daughter to swim lessons at British Swim School. After a few months her daughter “can now float on her back independently – […]
Six Water Safety Tips
National Water Safety Month might be over but water safety should be a practice year round! If you’re an Chicago-area parent who’s just getting started with water safety for children or simply a parent, here are 6 SAFETY tips to remember… S – Supervision Always supervise children when they are in or around water. No […]
Survival Week Starts Monday May 14th!
At the British Swim School, we pride ourselves on our water survival focus. As a result, we believe it is crucial that children experience falling into water clothed, so they know what to do if this were to ever happen. To simulate this experience, every eight weeks, we host our “Clothing/Survival Week”. During this special […]
New Pool Opening in South Loop
British Swim Chicago is proud to announce that we will be opening our newest Chicago location in the beautiful South Loop neighborhood! Located inside the LA Fitness, 1101 S Canal St.. This is an ideal location for the local East Loop, West Loop, South Loop and surrounding neighborhoods with easy access on and off the […]