Baby & toddler swim lessons?

[EmilyRose]

Hi everyone,

I'm excited to announce I'm becoming qualified as a baby & toddler swim teacher! Yayyy

I'm hoping to do private lessons in peoples homes, and I was wondering if anyone here has had toddler/baby swim lessons and how much you paid?

My initial thoughts on pricing was $12/half hr, and $20/hr.

Would you consider that reasonable? I found one swim school that charges $15/half hour, but I'd like to hear more comparisons if anyone has any.

[OceanPrincess]

I've just paid my term 3 fees - $120 for the term, I think that's ten classes? So that would be $12 for half an hour.

Congrats and good luck!

[Taurean]

$110 per term at our local pool. That's 10 or so sessions at 30 mins each I think

[BlackCat]

$230 for this term (its a long term though) so its really only $12 a lesson but ouch on the upfront payment

[Lulu]

Don't underprice yourself. If you are going to their house I would charge $15 to cover travel etc.

ETA - the schools can charge that rate because they will have 5-6 (?) kids in each class, and that makes it worthwhile. Would you travel distances for $12-15? Or do you plan to gather a few kids for each session.

If it's only one child at a time I'd charge alot more. It's a private lesson after all.

[mako]

Hi EmilyRose

I too am a qualified swimming teacher and where I work charge $11 per 30 minute lesson per child with 4 children per class. I'm looking at starting my own private lessons in private homes as well. I do know a swim school in my local area who charge $45 per private 30 minute lesson and lots of people do actually pay this amount. There is a website who have swimming teachers listed as available to conduct lessons and most of these teachers charge around $30 per child per half an hour.
Good luck with everything

ps Don't forget you'll need to have insurance to cover yourself.

[EmilyRose]

Yes - insurance will be the annoying thing. I'll have to gauge interest first to make sure I can actually offset the costs before I take anything out.

If insurance ends up being too expensive though, at least the course will have been fun and it will look good on my babysitting resume.

[Lulu]

you can always be an instructor at a swim centre first. From what I have heard teaching kids to swim can be very cool!

[mako]

EmilyRose I think from memory my insurance is only about $90 for a year..Check in your course pack if you did Austswim for the insurance leaflet. Otherwise working at a swim school is fun most days and your boss should pay for your insurance