Kings Swim School

General information

Kings Swim School has been a part of the Christchurch community since 1991. We provide a fun, quality “Learn to Swim” service for the children and adults of Christchurch City.

A family business owned and operated by Todd Mason and Pam Berry-Mason, with Pam and Todd's nephew Nick as Facility Manager.

Their passion for learning the life skill of swimming is evident from the number of years Todd has been involved in the sport and Pam’s years of service to the education sector. Todd has been involved with swimming since 1977. He has been a National Age Group Coach and was one of the 2004 Athens Olympic Swim Team Coaches as well as the Swim Team Manager.

Todd has been a “carded coach” through the NZ Academy of Sport, is a SNZ Level Three coach and holds numerous learn to swim certifications.

Pam has 24 years experience as a primary school teacher, ten of those years as an Assistant/Deputy Principal. She has a Bachelor of Teaching and Learning with a Diploma in Educational Management and a Certificate in Small Businesses. Pam and Todd are both active members of the NZ Swim Teachers and Coaches Association.

All of our staff members are carefully chosen. They are friendly, caring, dedicated, capable, patient and professional – they love working with children. Our swim teachers and coaches are all trained in the Kings Swim School teaching program and require a minimum of 20 supervised training hours before they are teaching classes solo.