Sandra Khuen is one of several accredited coaches in town, and has been running swimming lessons for six years.

Her lessons are for young children who are able to enter the pool and swim without any floatation devices, but have trouble with actual swimming strokes.

"I'm really concentrating on stroke correction," she said.

"Basically children who can dog paddle without floaties, who just can't get their arms out or their breathings not correct. Some kids can swim but their arms are all wrong, so we're just correcting the whole style and the breathing and things like that."

She currently charges $3 a lesson and teaches around 30 children, holding classes for beginners, those needing stroke correction and endurance swimmers.

The ages of the children in her classes differ according to their swimming abilities.

"You can get a three year old that can dog paddle, and you can get a five year old that sinks to the bottom. So it's really not age, it's their ability to have the floatation devices off," she said.

"For a lot of the kids their parents just want them to do something for the holidays, so it's a good outlet," she said.

Ms Khuen said the kids really enjoyed the classes, in which she also teaches them rules for swimming carnivals.

"They love it, it's a good sport, especially when you've got the holidays now, and as soon as school goes back, the first thing they're going to give you is a swimming carnival.

"Children who haven't been really practised don't do well, and the ones who really have been practising really stand out.

"Some of the kids can swim, but they're swallowing water, or keeping their head up and all these different things. They want to look the part."

Ms Khuen still has vacancies left in her classes, but an assessment of the children's abilities is necessary before acceptance into the lessons.

Anyone interested can talk to Ms Khuen after the lessons.

Lesson times are 5pm to 6pm on Wednesdays and 11am to 12:30pm on Saturdays.

Beginner lessons run for half an hour while stroke correction and endurance lessons run for an hour each.

During the lessons Ms Khuen uses the lap lanes.

Lessons will run until the end of February.