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The Swim School
Our Vision
Every child and adult deserves the chance to learn to swim.
We endeavour to meet the child's individual needs to ensure the best class we can teach. We have extremely high expectations of our team and they do not disappoint.​
Continued development
At Sue's Swim School, we promote staff to share good practice activities. This ensures our experienced staff are up-skilled with new practices as well as allowing our helpers to gain experience and methods of teaching from working with more experienced staff.​
Speciality training
Some of our staff have gained extra experience and awards in chosen areas such as lifesaving, working with SEN children, competitive swimming, working with adults.
Where we began...​
The swim school was started in 1982 by friends Roz and Sue. The original lessons were held at the Princess Alice Orphanage in Sutton Coldfield. When the pool was closed down due to the bottom of it falling out in 1985, the swim school moved to Perry Common Secondary School in Perry Common.​
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As with a lot of pools from that time, the pool building was closed down to make way for new classrooms. The swim school was on the move again, this time down the road to Cardinal Wiseman in 1988, where we still teach today. The swim school also acquired the pool at Fairfax School In Sutton Coldfield. Around 1999, Roz decided to leave the swim school, where it became the swim school we all know and love today, Sue's Swim School.
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In 2018, Sue passed away suddenly. Andy, who was a school teacher at the time, and Matt who worked in the sports kit provider world decided to keep the swim school running in Sue's name.
Fast forward 6 years (2 of which were lock down) and we are the largest, private, non franchised swim school in the Midlands. Providing lessons to over 1300 children and adults a week.
Andy now oversees the swimming operation side of the swim school. He has over 25 years’ experience as a swimming teacher and over a decade of experience as a school teacher and Aquatic Tutor.
Matt oversees all of the business side of the swim school and its finances as well as our merchandise and uniform production. It was also Matt's astute knowledge that mean during Lockdown, nobody lost their job due to redundancy and not one swimmer lost money they had paid.