Pre-School Bookable and Drop-In Call us to find out about availability and book your child into a class. 01225 330001

At Baskervilles, we have the equipment and expertise to help your child begin a lifetime love of movement and agility. We are able to offer your child the opportunity to develop key life skills such as co-ordination, strength, confidence and teamwork within a fun and safe environment. All classes are planned and progressive, your child will enjoy developing their early gymnastic skills.

Our Pre-School gymnastics classes are carefully programmed to enable your child to learn at the right pace for their age and ability and are all about fun. The session begins with warm-up activities including preparations for gymnastic shapes and skills, songs and use of hand apparatus. The gymnasts then move on to the large apparatus to develop their skills, including forward and backward rolls; balancing on beams; swinging on ropes, rings and bar; handstand preparations and much more.

Sessions last for 45 minutes.
Pre-booking is required.
£65.00 for a 10-week term, pro-rata

Baby gym, 8 weeks–Pre-walking

This is a fun and interactive session for you and your baby. Beginning to build and strengthen your baby’s muscles ready for pushing up, sitting up and crawling. We work on visual tracking, developing motor skills and taking baby through the motions of rolling. A fun and relaxed environment, it’s a great place to meet other parents. Free Tea and coffee available afterwards. (A crèche runs at the same time for children 2–5 years old, £3.00)

Playgym, 18 months–2½ years

Sessions begin with 15 minutes of free play on our softplay apparatus, followed by 30 minutes of coach-led activities including hand apparatus, songs and structured supervision on our large apparatus.
£25.00 for a block of 5 consecutive weeks (pre-booking required)

Parent and Toddler, 2½ years–3½ years

Parent and child work together in this fully structured class now that the child is ready to listen, co-operate and develop the skills learned in Playgym.

Gym Tots, 3½ years–4 years +

Children work independently from parents and are taught more challenging gymnastic skills by our qualified coaches. Parents can watch from the coffee bar area or join in with a Fitness Class.

Preschool Themes

Winter Term Week 9 w/c 25th January: Toy Story
Spring Term Week 1 w/c 10th February: Medieval
Week 3 w/c 2nd March: Safari
Week 4 w/c 9th March: Sports Relief
Week 5 w/c 16th March: How Our Body Moves
Week 7 w/c 30th March: Easter
Week 9 w/c 27th April: Hungry Caterpillar
Week 10 w/c 4th May: The Park

Pre-School Drop-In Sessions

These sessions are all about fun! Children have the opportunity to explore a huge variety of equipment including the bouncy castle, ropes and rings, ball pool, slides, balance beam, trampoline and lots more softplay equipment. All sessions are supervised but parents MUST attend with their children.

All sessions pay on the door: £4.00 per session / £7.00 for two siblings

Gymfun, 3 years and under, 45 minutes

Wednesday 9:30am–10:15am
Friday 10:30am–11:15am
Gymfun provides a stimulating and safe environment for you to encourage and nurture your child’s development using a variety of equipment, with songs at the end of the session.

Adventure Gym, 4 years and under, 1 hour

Monday 2:00pm–3:00pm
Tuesday 2:30pm–3:30pm
Friday 1:45pm–2:45pm
Adventure Gym is a more challenging environment, providing an opportunity for your child to explore the gym and the variety of equipment. At the end of the session we have songs and activities often using our hand apparatus.

Sunday Softplay, 5 years and under, 

Sunday: 9:00am–10:15am
Sunday: 10:30am–11:45am

Family fun using our gymnastics equipment with songs at the end. Parental involvement is a must as you help your child explore the gym.

Our Pre-School coaches are:
Fully qualified through British Gymnastics
Hold enhanced DBS Disclosures
Have appropriate Safeguarding training