Paul Dillon Swimming Club
20 Dersingham Rd, London, NW2 1SL Directionshttps://www.yell.com/biz/paul-dillon-swimming-club-london-6184282/#view=map
Tel
020 8830 9939
Now closed
Open today
10:00 - 15:00
Our location
Business overview
We offer swimming lessons for children aged 3 1/2 to 14 years in Hampstead and Highgate. Lessons run afterschool and at weekends. We also offer holiday courses.
We offer individually tailored swimming lessons in North London at UCS Active in Hampstead NW3
Our classes are all taught with the teacher in the water, making them both focussed and fun and helping children to feel secure and safe.
We want to help all of our students to gain the lifelong skill of being able to swim efficiently and safely and to enjoy the process!
Contact us on 0208 830 9939
or at [email protected]
Our friendly and helpful team are available
Monday - Friday 10.00 am - 3.00 pm
Products & Services
Children's Swimming Lessons
1:1 Lessons
2:1 Lessons
Squad development classes for advanced swimmers
Intensive holiday swim courses
Reviews
07 Mar 2022
Great Teaching, Coaching and Facilities!
5
Our daughter has been swimming with PDS for 4 years now, she was exceptionally lucky to have the same instructor throughout the whole 1:1 4 years cycle. She recently moved into the squad and the team at PDS was extremely helpful in supporting her in this transition and has always been in the past whenever we had anything to report. They instructors are lovely and very sweet and our youngest has also started swimming with great enthusiasm and super quickly. The facilities are great. I would definitely recommend!
Business Response
08 Mar 2022
Thank you for your lovely review! It's been so wonderful to see the progress your daughter had made. She's a fantastic swimmer now. She should be very proud of herself!
Thank you for your lovely review! It's been so wonderful to see the progress your daughter had made. She's a fantastic swimmer now. She should be very proud of herself!
02 Nov 2018
Helpful friendly service!
5
I think that they are really helpful. I have had quick replies with email queries. There was an occasion that I had to change a lesson due to logistics. They were pretty flexible in arranging another class. I have had previous experience with another swimming company when they just said that you would just lose your money.
26 Mar 2018
PDS = Brilliant
5
Paul Dillon's swimming club is best place to put your kids if your want them to learn to swim in a fun environment. The teachers are the amazing and so friendly and deal with problems so efficiently.
The progress some of the kids make in a term in phenomenal, having that 1 to 1 help really makes a difference. I would recommend this club to anyone that needs help learning to swim (including adults).
The progress some of the kids make in a term in phenomenal, having that 1 to 1 help really makes a difference. I would recommend this club to anyone that needs help learning to swim (including adults).
Business Response
27 Mar 2018
Thank you so much for your lovely review. I'm so pleased that your child has found learning to swim with us such a positive experience. Glad to hear you're so happy with the lessons. Thanks for taking the time to review us.
Thank you so much for your lovely review. I'm so pleased that your child has found learning to swim with us such a positive experience. Glad to hear you're so happy with the lessons. Thanks for taking the time to review us.
Business Response
27 Mar 2018
Thank you so much for your lovely review. I'm so pleased that your child has found learning to swim with us such a positive experience. Glad to hear you're so happy with the lessons. Thanks for taking the time to review us.
Thank you so much for your lovely review. I'm so pleased that your child has found learning to swim with us such a positive experience. Glad to hear you're so happy with the lessons. Thanks for taking the time to review us.
27 Apr 2016
No structure and disinterested feedback
1
My child has being using the center for some time, and time and time again there are always issues. The biggest one being the constant change in instructors and the lack of communication with the parents of the child - this has being seconded by a number of other parents.
Coupled with this is the lack of structure in terms of building the child's ability to progress. The owners are not really that interested in individual issues and this is clearly evident with the number of people at any one session. The classes are so full that the mechanics of the lessons are similar to a production line.
Coupled with this is the lack of structure in terms of building the child's ability to progress. The owners are not really that interested in individual issues and this is clearly evident with the number of people at any one session. The classes are so full that the mechanics of the lessons are similar to a production line.
Business Response
16 May 2017
I'm very sorry to hear that you were not happy with the lessons. Although we do work very hard to ensure continuity it's not always possible. The majority of our teachers have been with us for years, some for nearly a decade! But with a part-time workforce sometimes plans do change and new opportunities come up and of course teachers do get sick. We try to have at least two teachers spare for every time slot in order to ensure if a teacher is away more than once in a term, your child would then have the same replacement teacher. Children are assessed twice a term according to our award scheme criteria. As lessons run back to back, it's not always possible for teachers to give feedback at the pool but if parents get in touch with the office we can get a progress report from your child's teacher at any point in the term. Our lessons don't have a rigid structure, children are all different, therefore, lessons are tailored to the individual child.
I'm very sorry to hear that you were not happy with the lessons. Although we do work very hard to ensure continuity it's not always possible. The majority of our teachers have been with us for years, some for nearly a decade! But with a part-time workforce sometimes plans do change and new opportunities come up and of course teachers do get sick. We try to have at least two teachers spare for every time slot in order to ensure if a teacher is away more than once in a term, your child would then have the same replacement teacher. Children are assessed twice a term according to our award scheme criteria. As lessons run back to back, it's not always possible for teachers to give feedback at the pool but if parents get in touch with the office we can get a progress report from your child's teacher at any point in the term. Our lessons don't have a rigid structure, children are all different, therefore, lessons are tailored to the individual child.
Business Response
16 May 2017
I'm very sorry to hear that you were not happy with the lessons. Although we do work very hard to ensure continuity it's not always possible. The majority of our teachers have been with us for years, some for nearly a decade! But with a part-time workforce sometimes plans do change and new opportunities come up and of course teachers do get sick. We try to have at least two teachers spare for every time slot in order to ensure if a teacher is away more than once in a term, your child would then have the same replacement teacher. Children are assessed twice a term according to our award scheme criteria. As lessons run back to back, it's not always possible for teachers to give feedback at the pool but if parents get in touch with the office we can get a progress report from your child's teacher at any point in the term. Our lessons don't have a rigid structure, children are all different, therefore, lessons are tailored to the individual child.
I'm very sorry to hear that you were not happy with the lessons. Although we do work very hard to ensure continuity it's not always possible. The majority of our teachers have been with us for years, some for nearly a decade! But with a part-time workforce sometimes plans do change and new opportunities come up and of course teachers do get sick. We try to have at least two teachers spare for every time slot in order to ensure if a teacher is away more than once in a term, your child would then have the same replacement teacher. Children are assessed twice a term according to our award scheme criteria. As lessons run back to back, it's not always possible for teachers to give feedback at the pool but if parents get in touch with the office we can get a progress report from your child's teacher at any point in the term. Our lessons don't have a rigid structure, children are all different, therefore, lessons are tailored to the individual child.
31 Oct 2012
miracle lesson
5
my wife just came home with the biggest smile! our six year old who has never taken off his arm bands or let go of the side of any of the numerous pools we have taken him to, swam a hole length of back style within twenty minutes of his first lesson! big thumbs up!
Thank you for your lovely review! It's been so wonderful to see the progress your daughter had made. She's a fantastic swimmer now. She should be very proud of herself!