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The Club swims at Ramsgate Pool, Newington Road, Ramsgate, every Thursday evening from 7.30pm until 9.45pm. The Club is run entirely by unpaid volunteers, who give their precious free time to introduce and develop water confidence and skills to young people. All volunteers are CRB checked and undertake regular training seminars, as appropriate. We teach: The Club uses the Amateur Swimming Association National Plan for Teaching Swimming (NPTS). This provides each level of swimmer with specific targets to aim for and achieve. We have adopted the new NPTS brought out by the ASA in late 2008. Stages 1 and 2 (beginners classes for our younger people, aged 4 upwards) are in the teaching pool from 7.30pm until 8.00pm. Stages 3 and 4 (still termed beginners, but with some water confidence and skills) are in the teaching pool and main pool between 8.00pm and 8.30pm. The time in the Main pool is to further build their confidence before their move into the main pool for Stage 5 and beyond! Stages 5/6/7 are called improvers, and are currently in the main pool from 7.30pm until 8.15pm, and another group is in from 8.15 until 9pm. These Stages are where the strokes and skills are further developed, so there is an attention to detail to make sure that the swimmers can demonstrate swimming and water skills to a good standard. Finally, the 9.00 group is for swimmers at least Stage 7, which are of a pre-competitive, intermediate or advanced standard. Please see the What Badges Can I Do? page for further details of the ASA and Swimming Teachers Association Awards that the Club offers. Whilst the Club does not compete against other Clubs, we hold our own gala every year to give the swimmers something to aim for and a flavour of competition to see if they would like to further develop their training with a competitive club. All swimmers are welcome to take part in the gala if they wish to, and all members and their families are more than welcome to come along and cheer them on! We add a little more excitement by dividing the swimmers into Bays (Joss, Botany, Stone and Viking) so that they can swim in relays these are very popular with the swimmers and their fans alike! Have a read of our Newsletters and Info page to find out a bit more of our normal activities. These are our main way of communicating with parents, carers and swimmers. Also keep an eye on the Whats New? page. This is regularly updated with small but important snippets of info. Please see the How Do I Join? page for more details on how to apply and to find the application form. And just in case there are some older but wiser adult swimmers (age 19+) out there who fancy dipping their toe back in to some friendly competition, we have a small but perfectly formed Masters branch - we can't offer training time but can offer cheap membership so that you can do some local galas - see the link on the left on more info and how to join us! Thanks for looking at Broadstairs Lifeguard and Swimming club. We hope that you have found all the information that you need. Still got some questions? Contact us on
