Little Pearls Swim School Cairns
Little Pearls Swim School offers swimming and water safety lessons all year round in our heated, fully enclosed facility, welcoming babies through to adults.
We use an advanced ozone water treatment system, creating exceptionally soft, gentle water—no harsh chemicals, no sore eyes, and no irritated skin—making it ideal for babies and young children.
Privately owned and operated, Little Pearls is a boutique-style swim school located in Smithfield, Cairns. We pride ourselves on leading the way with best-practice aquatic education and up-to-date teaching methods, ensuring every swimmer receives the highest quality instruction.
Our small class sizes across all levels allow for individual attention and maximum learning time for each child.
Our family-friendly facilities include:
- Hot showers
- A spacious change area with change tables
- Poolside seating for parents to comfortably watch lessons
- An on-site shop stocked with a wide range of swimwear and swimming accessories for children and adults
At Little Pearls, we focus on confidence, safety, and skill development in a nurturing and professional environment.
Our Programs
Babies & Toddlers
Learn To Swim (Independents)
Adults
Our Philosophy
Our classes are taught through love, patience and good guidance.
Teaching is done gently with encouragement and enjoyment and not against the child’s will, as we believe children learn best in a supportive learning environment.
Small class sizes allow the ability for individual instruction and development of each child.
Ensuring all teachers are provided with regular support and ongoing training enables us to deliver consistency across our program.
All activities have a purpose and help children develop socially, emotionally and physically!
We are a trauma free swim school striving for world’s best practice which means, that at no time are children forced to go under or float on their back under distress.
It’s more than just swimming, you will see your child build confidence and resilience throughout their journey at Little Pearls Swim School.
HealthySwim Accredited
Our facility is healthySwim accredited, which means we have the healthiest water available to our swimmers and staff. We have achieved this through investing in state of the art Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) technology that in addition to chlorine, safeguards both your family and our staff from viruses, bacteria, chlorine resistant pathogens such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia as well as destroys any nasty chlorine byproducts.
Shop
We provide goggle fitting as part of our service for purchasing goggles.
Disposable swim nappies along with re-usable swim nappies, caps, swimwear and refreshments are available at reception.
Within a month of SAFERswimming week we were at a child’s 6th birthday party, where kids of various ages were enjoying playing in a pool. Holly was the littlest one in the pool but was excited to join in the fun, with me watching closely from the side. A minor collision occurred with an older child, and Holly was dunked under the water, losing her goggles and pool noodle.
Instinctively and calmly she raised her little arms above her head and called for help. The fully clothed mother closest to her was alerted to her distress signal and was in the water within seconds providing support. It was a valuable reminder to all the parents of why supervision in the water at all times is absolutely paramount, and it was remarkable to see Holly put into place the SAFERswimming skills she had recently learned.
Thank you to the staff at Little Pearls for their assistance teaching these vital water safety skills.
I want to thank each of you (Little Pearls Team) so very much for all the love, support, confidence building and swimming skills you have given Isla, and I. What Isla has walked away with from Little Pearls is what I dreamt of when first enrolling her and she now certainly has a beautiful solid foundation to build on. I am so grateful for that.
My daughter has so much more confidence in the water now. She is so excited to go to her class each week.
I’ve been going to Little Pearls with both my children ( 2 and 4yo) since they were babies. After my eldest Cooper had a year off swimming after ENT surgery, he was extremely anxious to get in the pool and had fallen well behind. Carrie and the Little Pearls team have been extremely accommodating, and amazing in supporting and encouraging him back into the water at his own pace.
Carrie knows all the tricks in the book and has turned my once anxious swimmer, into a confident child who is excited to swim week after week!