Swim School

The Waverley College Swim School is proud to welcome all school-aged boys and girls from the wider community. Our comprehensive programs focus on developing effective swimming technique, building endurance, and instilling lifelong water skills.

Whether your child is refining their strokes or training for competitive sports, our experienced coaches provide a supportive environment to help them reach their fitness goals.

Why swim with us?

Train in our heated, 50-metre outdoor pool located at the Waverley College Aquatic Centre.
We run comprehensive programs during Term 4 and Term 1, alongside one-week summer holiday swim camps.
We offer three levels for children 6 years and up of all abilities
Sessions focus on stroke technique and building competence and endurance in all strokes; freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly
Parking is available in the school car parks from 3:20pm

Term 4 Lessons

Dates: Monday 12 October – Friday 18 December 2026 (10-Week Program)
Registration: Click here to book

Swim Programs

Important Note: All participants must be independent swimmers. We do not offer Learn to Swim lessons involving in-water instruction. Instructors coach directly from the pool deck.

Tadpoles (Advanced Learn to Swim)

Small-group sessions designed for children who can swim independently to build technique, endurance, and breathing over 25 metres.

Key Goals: Improve technique, kicking, timing, and breathing for freestyle and backstroke over 25 meters; introduction to breaststroke kick and basic stroke timing, and crouch dives.

Prerequisites: Must swim 20 metres unassisted in both freestyle and backstroke.
Duration: 30 minutes per session.
Session Times: Monday to Friday afternoons (3:30–4:00pm | 4:00–4:30pm | 4:30–5:00pm).
Term Pricing:
- $260 for 1 day per week
- $370 for 2 days per week

Mini Squad (Development Squad)

A fun, fitness-focused program for children aged 12 and under who have completed Learn to Swim and want to continue developing technique, fitness and squad skills.

Key Goals: Advanced stroke drills; introduction to butterfly, tumble turns, and race starts; building endurance through freestyle and medley, learning to read pace clocks and follow pre-written sets to cover 600m to 1km per session.

Prerequisites: Must swim 50 metres of freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke, building up to 200 metres of continuous freestyle.
Duration: 45 minutes per session.
Session Times: Monday to Friday afternoons (3:30–4:15pm | 4:15–5:00pm).
Term Pricing:
- $380 for 2 days per week
- $450 for 3 days per week

Junior Squad (Swim Fitness Squad)

A non-competitive, fitness-focused program for teens and pre-teens. Ideal for building endurance, staying active, and cross-training for water sports like water polo and surf lifesaving.

Key Goals: Continuous stroke refinement through drills; build endurance with freestyle and medley swimming; polish racing skills through dives, finishes, tumble turns, and underwater work; following pre-written training sets using pace clocks to cover up to 2km per session.

Prerequisites: Must swim 400 metres freestyle, 100 metres of backstroke and breaststroke, and 50 metres butterfly continuously.
Duration: 45 minutes per session.
Session Times: Monday to Friday afternoons (3:30–4:15pm | 4:15–5:00pm).
Term Pricing:
- $380 for 2 days per week
- $450 for 3 days per week

Important Information

Parking

Parent parking is available in the school car parks from 3:20 pm via the Henrietta Street entrance.

Active Kids Vouchers

Please note that because this swim program is run directly by Waverley College, it does not qualify for NSW Active Kids vouchers.

Policies & Terms

By registering, you agree to all swim school guidelines. Please review our documentation before booking:

Adult Swim Squad

The adult swim programs are run through NezSwim, a swim squad for competitive, recreational swimmers, ocean swimmers and triathletes.

NezSwim swim squad sessions cater for three different speed groups.

Group 1 will swim between 3.0 and 3.3 kilometers, holding a pace of 1:30 or faster per 100 meters.
Group 2 will swim approximately 2.8 kilometers, holding a pace of 1:40 to 1:45 per 100 meters.
Group 3 will swim 2.6 kilometers, holding a pace of 2:00 per 100 meters.

The sessions are freestyle based, no form stroke or medley sets. The sessions are not stroke correction or technique focused. All sets are intervals on the clock and are disciplined swim squad training sessions.

Session Times