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Swimming

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Swimming is available at the following centres:

Swimming for fitness or fun provides you with the most complete form of exercise. Being supported by the water, it is also low impact and suitable for everyone. Learning to swim also gives you an invaluable life skill which you can use not only to stay fit but also to relax and get more out of your leisure time and holidays.

The water in our indoor pools is kept at a comfortably warm temperature and each facility has a full programme of different swimming sessions and lessons for all ages.

Adults can enjoy aqua aerobics, lane swimming, ladies only sessions and twilight zone sessions where we turn the lights down for a relaxing evening swim.

Kids can enjoy fun sessions with our giant pool inflatables, take a slide down the flume at Lewes Leisure Centre and even hire our facilities for a great Birthday Pool Party.

All our pools offer disabled access, pool hoist, disabled changing and WC facilities.

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Swimming Lessons

Our extensive programme of swimming lessons for all ages will help give you or your children the confidence to enjoy the water in complete safety.

At Wave Leisure we follow the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) National Plan for Teaching and all our instructors are ASA qualified. Children can start to enjoy the water from the age of five months with one of our Parent & Toddler structured play sessions and follow the ASA Duckling and Puffin programme all the way through to age 4.

Our lesson programme then goes all the way through to ASA level 12, with special courses for advanced water skills, personal water safety, rookie lifeguarding, water rescue and even the full National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ) for over 16's.

Our adult programme is equally comprehensive. If you've never set foot in a pool before then our Absolutely Terrified course is for you! Once you've caught the swimming bug you can progress right through to adult advanced courses and even go for your NPLQ certificate too.

There are term-time weekly courses, intensive holiday courses, evening courses for adults and private one-to-one or group lessons available.

Ayoung girl sliding down an inflatable slide

Birthday Parties

Our pools also make great kids birthday party venues, especially when the giant pool inflatables are out! Ask at reception for full details of our pool parties today!

Child & Toddler Supervision

Children under 8 must be accompanied in the water by a responsible person at all times - supervision ratios and maximum pool numbers will apply. Toddler pants are needed for use in the pools and can be purchased from reception.

Further information:

All our activity, facility and price programmes are available from any Wave Leisure centre reception or can be downloaded in pdf format from our leaflet library.