💦 Swim with Style Takes Part in International Learn to Swim Week 2026! 💦

This May, Swim with Style were proud to once again support the Swimming Teachers’ Association (STA) during International Learn to Swim Week 2026 — a fantastic national campaign dedicated to promoting water safety, confidence, and the importance of learning to swim. 🧡

International Learn to Swim Week, organised by the STA, helps raise awareness of how vital swimming and water safety skills are for children and adults of all ages. The campaign encourages families, schools, swim schools and communities to come together to celebrate swimming, build confidence in the water, and promote lifesaving skills that could one day save a life.

🌊 Swimming in Pyjamas Week!

As part of this year’s celebrations, our swimmers took part in a very exciting and important themed week — Swimming in Pyjamas!

Throughout the week, swimmers came to lessons wearing lightweight pyjamas over their swimwear and experienced practical water safety activities in a safe and controlled environment with our qualified teachers.

The children absolutely loved the challenge, and it was fantastic to see so many smiles, giggles and determined faces in the pool! 😊

🛟 Why Swim in Pyjamas?

Swimming in everyday clothing is a brilliant way to help children understand how different the water can feel if they unexpectedly fall in wearing clothes.

Pyjamas quickly become:

• heavier in the water

• harder to swim in

• more tiring to move around in

Our lessons focused on:

• floating techniques

• staying calm in the water

• treading water

• safe movement

• removing clothing safely in the water

• water confidence and survival skills

These fun but educational sessions helped swimmers gain valuable real-life water safety awareness while still enjoying their normal lessons.

💙 Supporting Water Safety Education

At Swim with Style, we are passionate about teaching more than just swimming strokes. We strongly believe that learning essential water safety and survival skills is equally important.

International Learn to Swim Week is a wonderful reminder that:

Swimming is a life skill ❤️

The STA campaign continues to highlight the importance of:

• accessible swimming lessons

• inclusive aquatic opportunities

• drowning prevention awareness

• safe, fun and progressive learning

• building confidence in and around water

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🌟 Thank You!

A huge thank you to all of our amazing swimmers, parents and teachers who joined in with the fun across all of our Swim with Style venues throughout the UK.

We loved seeing everyone embracing the challenge and developing such important life skills while having fun at the same time!

We are incredibly proud to support the STA and the fantastic work they do to promote learn to swim programmes and water safety education nationwide.

We cannot wait to take part again next year! ✨