What to bring

All pre-schoolers wear a swim nappy underneath their swimwear until they're fully potty trained.

Once your child is fully potty trained and you're confident, they can come in swimwear on its own — the same as our older children and anyone else using the pool.

Most children stop wearing one around transition lessons. That tends to be the point parents feel comfortable, and there's no rush.

Goggles are entirely up to you.

We'd rather take barriers to learning away than put them up, so we neither encourage goggles nor discourage them. It's a personal choice.

There are times we'll ask a child to go under without them. Opening your eyes underwater is something you have to feel to get used to, even if you don't much like it — and if anything ever happened, it's highly unlikely they'd have goggles on.

If your child has a verruca, please pop them in a verruca sock so it doesn't pass to anybody else.

It doesn't stop them swimming. A sock and they're in, same as usual.

There are male and female changing rooms and a disabled changing facility. Each one has a private cubicle, a toilet and showers.

The showers take a minute to warm up. Run one, give it a moment, and run it again — it gets there, it just needs waking up first.