Since 1981, Little Dipper Swim School, has earned the reputation as one of the leading year round swim schools in the Bay Area. Our award winning program stands for its self as we do not advertise, we are grateful for our word of mouth referral base.

We have taught thousands of children and adults to swim in the East Bay year round. We teach private, semi-private, small groups for Infant/Toddler (parent participation) and Intermediate/Advance lessons.

All of our instructors are carefully selected and trained to teach our Little Dipper method. Most of our instructors are also Little Dipper Grad students.

At Little Dipper Swim School, water safety is our number one priority. Our mission is that every child can roll to float alone and feel confident to then roll over to kick to the nearest wall. Once a child has mastered this we then continue into beginner stroke development. Our classes are based on patience and building confidence within the swimmer at any age. LD instructors build each swimmers self-esteem through repeated success week after week. The Little Dipper Swim School method of teaching keeps our swimmers calm, confident, smiling and safe in the water!


Mission Statement Little Dippers

The goal of Little Dippers staff is to teach each swimmer to truly love ,respect and feel totally competent in the water. So much so that swimming becomes second nature. Every Little Dipper teacher is committed to our Mission Statement and follows the same format and principles set forth proven to achieve our goal.

           Our program has lasted the test of time for 31 years and is still graduating top quality swimmers. We are proud to say we are now teaching second generation Little Dippers who are enjoying the same excellent instruction their parents received.

          We hire very skilled and mature staff that undergoes an extensive training program to learn the Little Dipper method (this method has a copy right). Some of our teachers are Psychologists. School teachers; swim coaches as well as parents themselves. Many of our staff also were once Little Dipper swimmers! With our special swim training as well as the wealth of experience our teachers bring to the pool each Little Dipper is in the best of care. Five of our current teachers have been with us for over ten years. That is a testament to our love and dedication to this program.

             I brought my own experience as a Special Education teacher when I opened Little Dippers.We have developed a program so detailed  to the developmental swimming levels that learning to swim with us is as fail safe as "water safe"Our staff is trained to meet the needs of all age and developmental levels and offers skilled teachers to work with special needs children as well.

         With our small student to teacher ratio and our proven process taught by mature and skilled teachers your child would get the best instruction available. We view the pool site, as being classroom. This is where swimming is the subject being learned.  With a teacher ratio of two to one or one to one (with exception to our parent participation classes, which is five to one and advanced levels) we teach listening skills and following directions as well as strokes, water safety and fluidity. We really do develop swimmers who swimming becomes a second nature to them.

We stand by our word that every swimmer can succeed. We are committed to the success and work as a team with the parent as well as child. Any request or concern is responded to in an attempt to make this a positive experience for everyone. We stay flexible to meet the individual needs of each student

                                      HAPPY SWIMMING

Joy and the Little Dipper Staff

 

















 





 
 
        
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