Welcome to ESF Sports - Safe, Fun, Effective Sport Classes for Children

ESF Sports was established in 1997 and is proud to have over 4,000 children participating in our programmes every week. We believe Sport is one of the key areas that can shape childrens’ minds and physical development. When used effectively sport supports young people’s development across a wide range of issues from behavior and conduct, to health and well-being and from education standards to community citizenship.

It is our aim to ensure that your child’s first introduction to sport is as magical as possible and provide opportunities where children can develop new skills in fun, creative and stimulating ways. ESF Sport presents a programme of activities designed to encourage young people to become physically active, learn through fun and improve their confidence and focus.

With this in mind we encourage children to start young, ensuring fundamental movement is learnt correctly in a safe and secure environment. Each sport has created its own athlete pathway to guide children’s learning at an appropriate pace to their needs. It is important to us that children not only start but develop an interest and passion for sport that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

We run classes, holiday camps, squads, leagues and tournaments so children can further improve and learn how to use their new skills in teams and competitions. Please visit our individual sport pages on the left hand side for more information on our programmes and holiday sport camps.

The Importance of Sport

• It develops pupils' physical competence and confidence, and their ability to use these to perform in a range of activities
• It promotes physical skilfulness, physical development and a knowledge of the body in action
• It provides opportunities for children to be creative, competitive and to face up to difficult challenges as individuals, in groups and in teams
• It promotes positive attitudes towards active and healthy lifestyles.
• Children learn how to think in different ways to suit a variety of creative, competitive and challenging activities.
• Children learn how to plan, perform and evaluate actions, ideas and performance to improve their quality and effectiveness.
• Through this process children discover their aptitude, abilities and preferences and make choices about how to get involved in lifelong physical activity.

Head Coach Swimming - Linda Wilson

ESL are delighted to welcome Linda Wilson from the UK as Head of Swimming. Linda joins ESL with an extensive background in the aquatic disciplines. Her experience in managing large scale school swimming programmes to achieve quality 'Kitemark' status, will ensure the programme is in good hands.

Having learnt to swim fairly late in life Linda comments 'Being an adult learner has helped me appreciate the difficulties of learning to swim and to understand how important the basic skills are in ensuring progress and improvement. Swimming is such a wonderful sport that anyone of any age can participate in and enjoy. It is a life-time skill that opens up other opportunities'.

Linda's ambition for ESL Swimming is very clear 'It is my commitment, and that of my dedicated, enthusiastic team of swimming coaches, to ensure that everyone participating in the swimming sessions has the opportunity to fulfill their full potential in their chosen swimming activity.'

Over the next few weeks Linda will be visiting the sites and getting to know the programme and coaches. 'It is important to look at both the strengths of the programme and areas of improvement and most importantly listen to the participants and their requirements. As a qualified ASA Tutor Linda is eager to establish a strong coach base, with consistent training and development that will ensure childrens first steps into swimming are fun and stimulating.

To find out more about Linda's background...please click here