Vicki Field Swim School

My kids school has their swimming lessons with this swimming centre and all my kids were keep talking about the bad experiences they got from here.I couldn’t get one of my kids to go to swim with the school swimming program again in 2022 because the swim teachers verbally abused him in the past.

All three of my kids have been swimmimg with Vicki and her team for years. Highly recommend, the teachers are qualified and extremely friendly. My kids especially love that they have the same teacher every week which you wouldnt find at many other swim schools. Vicki also checks on my kids progress regularly.

I’m writing this as I’m incredibly disappointed with the behaviour of some of the instructors at this school.My daughter attend the classes as part of their schooling and today was humiliated in front of everyone.My daughter expressed that she would like to progress to higher levels.Instead of acting like an adult and speaking to a child, like a child, they made a sarcastic comment to one of the other instructors in front of everyone. To paraphrase “Lets move (daughter) to this class, because you get what you want if you cry”. What kind of adult behaves like this?My other younger daughter also expressed to me that one of the instructors told her “stop crying, we don’t cry here”. She’s only 6 years old and she’s anxious about learning how to swim. A bit of compassion would go a long way.To the owners of the establishment, what kind of environment are you encouraging here? For what should be a process educating and training the children on safety, you’re creating an environment of the opposite.I’m overall left with a really disgusted impression based on the behaviour of some of the instructor here and do not recommend.

After learning to swim at a different swim school, my 9 yr old daughter was excited to try Vicki's when she went there with her primary school. But when the Vicki swim teacher found out my daughter had swimming lessons elsewhere, she took is upon herself to pick on my daughters technique and constantly told her she was doing it wrong" and made comments like "I can't believe that is her dolphin kick" that the other kids heard. The Vicki swim teacher was destroying my daughters swimming confidence. I pulled her out of the school program after the second lesson. It was appalling behavior from the Vicki teacher and I will strongly encourage the primary school to go elsewhere for their swimming program."

My kids first went to Vick Field Swim School for school swimming. The staff were very respectful of the way their swim school at the time had taught them and were very professional in the way they approached teaching my kids without undermining their swim teachers at the time. I decided to move my kids from where they were to Vicki's and have now been their for 3 years. I only wish we had made the move sooner - amazing and friendly staff.

My school went here for swimming lessons, 2022, and 2023, 2022 was fine and my swimming got better through out the time. But in 2023, I was extremely disappointed. One of the swimming instructors body shamed a student in 2022. The next year (2023) Someone embarrassed the youngest kid in front of their whole group. I am extremely disappointed. The swimming instructors a mean, and the walls are all. Rusty. And there is no life guard. The place is a mess. Please do not go!

It’s interesting to read other parents reviews. I think we forget that swimming is a life skill. It is a matter of swim or drown! There is a time for teachers to demand that children act in a certain matter in the pool and allow children to feel a bit of fear around the water.My first class there was absolutely horrible but I trusted the instructors process. My daughter knows how to scream a room down and she gave the pool hell. However I’m saying that the teacher was able to build that trust with my daughter through this process and I wouldn’t take my daughter anywhere else now.The level of maturity that my daughter now shows around water, how to enter the pool safely, not to enter without an adult and also how to manage when your legs are tired.Yes the teachers are strict on the children but god at least I know my daughter is safer around water.Read the stats on drowning and then decide if you will let your children cry for a minute.Couldn’t recommend highly enough especially for parents struggle with their children needing some tough love

Do not ever take your children here. There is no life guard, the trainers don’t watch the kids and the owners don’t care in any way shape or form. My son nearly drowned and the owners didn’t even apologise. They were rude, arrogant and genuine jerks. You would be better off teaching your children to swim in the Lilydale sewerage plant.

I love the approach the teachers use to teach my kids to learn to swim. They are always encouraging while helping them to improve their technique. My son in particular always hated swimming lessons at his old school, now he asks to go and wants to go everyday! So glad we found Vicki Field’s Swim School

An apprentice (Joe) that works there is absolutely amazing. Although he is only a teen, he has the etiquette of a professional and gives excellent advice. Although he keeps showing his 3 toes to my daughter which creeps her out a little bit