The wellbeing of our swimming community is our priority and we want to provide free opportunities for you to focus on your self-development. Below are online learning resources which are all free.

Our free resources and online learning

Mobile Devices in Swimming Lessons

This free interactive online resource provides swimming teachers with guidance on how to use mobile devices safely and effectively.

School Swimming and Water Safety Overview

This free interactive resource gives an introduction to School Swimming and Water Safety, including guidance on training, standards and a summary of the core aquatic and safe self-rescue skills.

Swim England Child Safeguarding Basic Awareness

This free online resource has been created with Swim England to give everyone involved in clubs a basic overview of child safeguarding.

Deaf Friendly Swimming

This free online learning will help ensure that deaf and hard of hearing young people are fully supported in accessing swimming lessons and training sessions.

Visually Impaired Friendly Swimming

This free online learning will help you understand visual impairments and how to support and include those with a visual impairment in swimming activities.

Introduction to Disability Swimming

This free online learning will give you an introduction to disability swimming. It covers best practice and how to support the inclusion of disabled people in swimming lessons and clubs.

A Beginner's Guide to Refereeing Swimming

This free online learning provides support and guidance for officials refereeing small or locally-run competitions.

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Latest news

New Introduction to Teaching the Four Strokes online learning

The Institute of Swimming has developed a new suite of four interactive online courses, enabling you to deliver practical sessions that focus on the development of a good technique across all four strokes, from non-swimmers to improvers. The Introduction to Teaching Front Crawl, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly online courses have also been brought together as a bundle and free for Institute of Swimming Members. All members will be

Institute of Swimming delivers bespoke Aquatic Online Training for Derby City Council Swimming Teachers during Covid-19 Pandemic

The Institute of Swimming has developed bespoke online training for its long term partner, Derby City Council, after an aquatic conference day developed by the Institute of Swimming, was cancelled due to the government’s Covid-19 guidelines. The Institute of Swimming modified the conference day, transforming the training into an online platform to maintain Derby City Council’s operational aquatic strategy. Ben Hannan, Sports Manager,

Swim England’s top tutor talks about her career and gives her tips on training to be a swimming teacher

Carolyn, 35, is this year’s Swim England Tutor of the Year. Her career in aquatics is a testament to her hard work and love of the sport. Carolyn delivers both the SEQ Level 1 and SEQ Level 2 Swimming Teacher courses, as well as CPD training and is currently upskilling to tutor the assistant coach certificate. Based in Manchester, Carolyn is delivering most of her courses around the North of England. Her job as a tutor is varied, busy and,

New online workshops and CPD webinars launched!

Over the next few months, we will be delivering bespoke online workshops and our popular suite of Swim England Qualification accredited CPD seminars online as interactive webinars. A webinar is an interactive online seminar that is led by the tutor and allows participants in different locations to be guided through the course content, hear the presenter, ask questions and be involved in group text discussions. All our webinars are hosted

New Swim England Safeguarding CPD

Swim England’s new CPD provides an insight into safeguarding issues, how to deal with those concerns and how to access support and advice. Launched on 6 April, the course has been developed in collaboration between the National Governing Body’s Child Safeguarding, Qualifications and Educator Training teams. Importantly at this time, the Institute of Swimming is delivering the CPD as an online webinar, led by tutors, allowing

Free resources and special offers on e-learning

The wellbeing of our swimming community is our priority and over the coming weeks, we want to provide free opportunities for you to focus on your self-development. New free online learning Our Introduction to Front Crawl and Backstroke and Introduction to Breaststroke and Butterfly online learning is now free till the end of May. These courses are usually £25 each and take you through the basics of the four strokes. They are perfect for

Free Resources and CPDs