Sensory Friendly Swim

We all know how important swimming is as a life skill. However, we appreciate that a typical swimming pool environment can be off-putting for some. We want to offer some specialised swimming sessions that create an environment with far less sensory stimulation than during our typical general swimming sessions. The changing facilities will not have any music playing, where natural light permits we will keep fluorescent lighting turned off. Our lifeguards and staff members won’t use whistles to communicate. The session is open to whole families and carers swim for free (when accompanying someone who requires a carer). We have limited the number of people to 40 for this session, which will run from 8.30-9.30am. The evening session will run from 6.00pm to 7.00pm or 6.30pm to 7.30pm.  We will have our Village changing room open for this event. Please note there is only 1 disabled changing room within the facility and 3 family changing cubicles within the village changing room and plenty of large changing cubicles on poolside.