Sophie – Swim School Owner

Sophie is the founder and owner of Seahorses. She has been teaching for over 15 years and swimming is her true passion in life. Sophie competed at county and regional level as a long distance breastroker as a child/teen. The opportunity arose to create her own swim school in 2014 and she hasn’t looked back since! She has enjoyed every step of the way and absolutely loves both teaching and also running a business and training her fantastic team of teachers!

Outside of the pool Sophie loves animals (she has two cats, two degus & three fish), health & fitness, baking and travelling.

Sophie has a wide range of qualifications and regularly attends additional training courses. These include, but are not limited to:

Qualifications

ASA Level 1 & 2 Teaching Aquatics

Birthlight Toddler Swimming

National Rescue Award for Teachers and Coaches

National Pool Plant Operator

STA Safeguarding

IOS, STA and BGi Personal & Business Insurances

Continual Professional Development Seminars

Effective Sculling & Development into strokes

Effective Communication & Feedback for Swimming Teaching & Coaching

Teaching Turns

Improving Frontcrawl

Improving Breastroke

Breaststroke Webinar

Aquatic Skills Diving

Strokes Masterclass

Disability Swimming

Deaf Friendly Swimming

Junior Lifeguard Diving, Stars & Turns

Risk Assessments

Safety Award Upskill

Baby & Preschool Submersion & Diploma Upskills

Manual Handling of People

Equality & Diversity

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health

Lone Working for Managers

Data Protection

Michelle

Michelle has been teaching for over 15 years! She is incredibly experienced with all ages and abilities. Teaching is a massive part of who she is and she loves being able to make a difference in each individuals journey – no person or day is the same! Michelle has been with Seahorses for many years now and is one of our core full time teachers. She is also our Swim School Co-Ordinator.

Outside of the pool Michelle trains in Ariel skills, Ariel hoop, kickboxing and crossfit. Michelle also has a gorgeous little boy who she loves bringing to his own lessons.

Kelly

Kelly has always loved the water and taught herself to swim underwater after discovering a window below the surface of a pool when she was 4yrs old! Since then she went on to complete her swimming awards and then took up synchro. Kelly trained up and qualified as a teacher and absolutely loves her job! Kelly has been with us for several years now and is a huge asset to our team. Her swimmers love her classes and she is absolutely fantastic with all our little ones.

Outside of work she is kept busy by her three children….they are love the beach (come rain or shine!) and enjoy being outdoors in general. Kelly loves music and spending lots of time with her family and friends.

Lucy

Lucy completed her full teaching qualifications and our extensions training programme, being trained by Sophie and has worked incredibly hard over the last 6 years to become the amazing teacher she is today. Lucy has expanded her skill set over this time to include a diverse range of classes including baby & toddler lessons and delivering Rookie Lifesaving courses. Lucy has always loved swimming and it’s a true passion of hers. She returned to work after taking a career break to raise her sons and realised swim teaching is the thing she really wants to do! Lucy is a fantastic teacher and a true asset to our team, teaching five days a week.

Outside of the pool Lucy is a mum to two teenage boys and enjoys exercising and socialising.