Splish Splash & PABA Fitness

Splish Splash Aqua Playgroup

Support your little one’s confidence and enjoyment of water from an early age!

Help your child to become comfortable and confident in and around the water in our Splish Splash Aqua Playgroup at Ferny Hills Aquatic Centre! We believe in creating safe, enjoyable, lifelong connections to water. The Splish Splash Aqua Playgroup is a wonderful way for babies and their parents or carers to develop positive connections in a supportive social environment. 

Sessions are designed for babies aged between 3 – 6 months, catering for infant participants attending with their parents or carers. Sessions are flexible and dynamic, designed with you and your baby in mind.

We understand that your first playgroup session can be slightly daunting, but with a fully trained and accredited swim teacher present at all times, you can relax and enjoy safe and rewarding aquatic experiences with your baby.

PABA Fitness Class
(Parent and Baby Aqua)

Our newest aquatics program, PABA Fit is at Ferny Hills Aquatic Centre. Targeted at parents with babies from 7 weeks to 3 years, it is designed to improve parents’ fitness and to introduce babies to the water. This 30-minute class provides excellent bonding and social opportunities for new parents and is paced to suit different levels of ability.

The program is comprised of a series of moderately paced, low impact and fat-burning aqua aerobic exercises for the parents, designed with the baby’s age and development in mind.

Photo of mother smiling whilst holding her baby along the pool edge as the baby lightly splashes their hands in the water.

What you need to know
SPLISH SPLASH

Session Info

Splish Splash sessions are held in our heated indoor pool at the below times:
Tuesday 11.30am
Thursday 11.30am

Cost

Pool Entry for the adult getting in the water

Program Benefits

Introduce the water and aquatic environment to your baby from as early as 3 months. A fully qualified infant swim teacher will lead your playgroup through activities focused on water education for you as a parent and water familiarisation for your baby.

Splish Splash Aqua Playgroup support building a routine when visiting the pool and makes the transition into swimming lessons easier for both parent and baby.

What you need to know
PABA

Session Info

Parent and Baby Aqua Fit sessions are held in our heated indoor pool at the below times:
Friday 11:45am

Cost

$10 for the adult getting in

Program Benefits

Excellent parent/baby bonding opportunities
Moderately paced, low impact, fat burning aqua aerobic exercises
Joint activity for parent and baby
Paced to suit different levels of ability
Ideal for post-partum mothers
Homogenous group is motivational
Social outlet for parents
Provides water confidence, safety and the basic foundations of swimming for babies

We encourage you to enrol your babies into our Goswim Program once they turn 6 months old.

Our Splish Splash program is offered as casual sessions, meaning there is no commitment to weekly sessions or lock-in terms. You can come as little or as often as you like.

No - Parents/carers will be able to stand in the water at all times during the sessions. However, it is important that parents or carers bringing their babies to Splish Splash sessions must also be calm and confident in and around water.

We're happy to help our participating parents or carers learn to safely and confidently swim through our Adult Swimming Lessons program. 

We encourage parents and caregivers to wear a t shirt in the water that is easy for the infants to grab onto.
Babies MUST wear a disposable or reusable swim nappy.