About – Friendly Dolphin Swim School

Water Safety — Help every swimmer develop essential water safety skills so they can become safer, more confident, and more independent in and around the water.

Swimming Skills — Build strong swimming fundamentals and teach effective stroke techniques through structured and progressive lessons.

Confidence — Develop confidence in the water by helping swimmers improve step by step at a pace appropriate to their abilities.

Lifelong Swimming — Encourage swimming as a lifelong skill. Whether for safety, fitness, recreation, or competition, it is never too late to learn and improve.

Learning at Any Age — Everyone starts somewhere. From young beginners to adults learning later in life, we aim to provide a supportive environment where every swimmer has the opportunity to progress.

Quality & Continuous Improvement — Continuously improve our lessons, coaching methods, and operations to maintain high standards of teaching and customer service.

Professional Coaches — Build a team of friendly, responsible, and experienced swimming coaches who are carefully selected to provide dependable and effective instruction.

Safety & Responsibility — Maintain responsible coaching standards by ensuring our instructors meet appropriate qualifications and requirements for the classes they conduct.

OUR STORY

Friendly Dolphin Swim School was founded with a simple goal: to make swimming lessons safe, effective, and enjoyable for everyone. We believe every swimmer learns differently, so our coaches provide patient guidance and structured lessons to help children and adults develop confidence, water safety awareness, and swimming skills.

WHAT WE DO

We provide swimming lessons for babies, toddlers, children, adults, and seniors across Singapore. Our programmes include beginner swimming, stroke development, lifesaving lessons, and private and group classes. Lessons are available at public swimming complexes across Singapore as well as condominium pools.

OUR COMMITMENT

We are committed to providing quality swimming education through responsible coaching, progressive learning, and a strong focus on safety. Our goal is not only to teach students how to swim, but to help them become confident, capable, and independent in the water while developing skills they can use for life.

Our school strives to give the best solutions to a variety of individuals during our swimming classes. We cater to all sorts of different learners and helping individuals to achieve and learn best.

We pride ourselves in providing quality swimming lessons with the use of good instructional methodologies for effective learning.

We follow a games-based approach taking advantage of short attention lifespan and children's impulse into playing games. This useful way of development will eventually guide children to love swimming and learn without even noticing.

Based on individuality the lessons are catered to all different spectrums of students. There are students learning better with individual attention from the coach for a particular skill. And some learning faster with a group of people looking to learn the same particular skill.

Our instructors are certified with a wide range of experiences from 3 years old all the way to adults. They have taught children how to be comfortable in the water, working on bubbles and focusing on technique based swimming you will use for swimming and fitness purposes.

Friendly Dolphin swimming instructors uses an aquatic assessment program designed by Dr Carol Huetting back in 1998. Our curriculum and assessments will addresses this few key components of swimming such as:

Water adjustment skills

Flotation skills

Propulsion and breathing skills

Swimming strokes and techniques

Safety entry and exit skills

All these five categories will progress in a hierarchical systems from the most simple to the most complex. This will ensure a good consistency and pace in acquisition of the next skill level.

Swimming instructor guiding a child during TWU Effective Swim Program

Friendly Dolphin instructor and families enjoying flexible swim lessons at condo pool

Friendly Dolphin Swim School provides structured swimming lessons at public swimming complexes across Singapore. Our experienced swimming instructors follow the SwimSafer syllabus, helping students develop essential swimming skills, water confidence, and water safety awareness through progressive learning.

We offer both group and private swimming lessons for children and adults of different ages and abilities. With lessons available at public swimming pools across Singapore, students can enjoy convenient locations, professional coaching, and a supportive learning environment while progressing towards becoming safer, more confident, and independent swimmers.

Friendly Dolphin Swim School swimming instructors have a minimum of two years experience and have gone through a stringent training program to earn their Lifesaving Instructor certifications, Bronze Medallion Award Lifeguard Services, CPR/AED and Standard First Aid certifications.

Additionally, some of our swim instructors hold advanced instructing qualifications and have formal training as school teachers or education professionals.

Friendly Dolphin swim instructors have been carefully screened by the Friendly Dolphin Management team. We make sure all swimming instructors to have undergone thorough background checks and are fully insured.

Friendly Dolphin swimming instructor ensuring safety and trust during swim lessons in pool

Swimming instructor supporting a young child in the pool

Instructor holding and guiding two children learning to float

Happy children with instructor sitting by the pool side

Children practicing kicking water along pool edge

Kids in yellow swim suits smiling and walking on poolside deck

Community group and parents gathering around the pool deck

Our Goals

Learning to swim early will keep your child safe and help to shape their character. We pledged to instill confidence, determination, persistence, withstand inevitable hardships, learn valuable social skills, time management skills, foster self-reliance, develop good motor skills and balance through our swimming lessons. Swimming as a year round activity will be very effective to keep your child healthy and happy.

Happy child with goggles splashing in swimming pool

Swimmer training with freestyle stroke in pool lane

Our Mission

Friendly Dolphin Swim School life mission is to promote better health and bring more happiness and joys to the community by instilling strong knowledge, instilling confidence and building positive learning attitudes for life through the sport of swimming.

Our Value

At Friendly Dolphin Swim School, we try to promote swimming and educate on the psychological health and physical health which will benefits from learning to swim at a young age. We follow a stringent guideline with health promotion board and hope to improve Singaporean overall health. We strive to learn and improve, always be open to questions and willingness to change and better serve the community in Singapore.

Swimmer in swimming pool with lane lines

How Can We Help?

We want to help our members go further, so if you have any suggestions about our classes, personal swimming lessons or anything else, please come in, drop us an email at [email protected] or if you prefer, drop us a note via our online inquiry forms.

Work With Us

We are an ambitious company and we're always looking for great people to join our team – from swim yoga trainers, group exercise instructors and diving instructors to our front-of-house teams. We're committed to training, so you'll be encouraged to improve your existing skills while you develop new ones.

APPLY NOW

We train and are proudly affiliated with leading industry players for swimming. We are confident tobring you the best knowledge and skills to keep you fit, safe in any water environment as well as betteradvancement into other water sports in future.