Snowsports - Kinder Ski Schools

Kinder Ski Summer dates

 

Parents and carers: please tell the instructor on each visit about any additional support needs your child has. You must stay around the slope during the lesson.

• Maximum 6 in a class.
• Progress to ski school classes when the child reaches age 6 years and can use the tows unassisted.

Prices

• Kinder 4-week weekend course:
• Kinder 5 day block course in school holidays: 

All prices are subject to Midlothian Council price increases

This includes:

• all instruction
• skis
• helmets (compulsory)
• boots
• poles
• use of uplift.

 

The levels

Snowy Owls

Entry: Complete beginner/ Tiny Tot class
Kinders should be complete beginners or may have completed one Tiny Tot taster session. Develop a good knowledge of ski equipment and be introduced to basic skiing skills such as sidestepping, straight running and the plough shape. Children will also be shown how to use the travelator safely.

When booked into Snowy Owls, should the first date be missed for any reason, the other dates in the block cannot be attended.

Antarctic Seals

Entry: Snowy Owls or can make a snowplough shape
Suitable for those who have completed the Snowy Owls course or can already make a plough shape. Learn to use a snowplough to come to a stop and refine basic skiing skills.

Arctic Reindeer

Entry: Antarctic Seals or can snowplough and stop
Suitable for children who can control their speed and stop using a snowplough. Develop snowplough technique and learn to snowplough turn on the nursery slope.

Polar Bears

Entry: Arctic Reindeer or can snowplough turn and use the travelator unassisted on nursery slope.
Revisit snowplough turns and when appropriate be introduced to the main slope and tow. Develop fluidity with snowplough turns, and start to link turns together and from further up the slope.

Snow Leopards

Entry: Polar Bears or can snowplough turn from the blue path and use the tow unassisted
Learn to expand the variety of arcs and the rhythm of their snowplough turns to improve confidence and choose speed and line appropriately, progressing onto plough parallel turns. On completion children will be able to ski first stage plough parallel from the middle station.

Himalayan Tigers

Entry: Snow Leopards or first stage plough parallel from the middle station.
Develop plough parallel technique and move towards parallel skiing. Learn to ski confidently down from the top station. Children are welcome to rebook this course repeatedly to increase their total skiing practice time until they are ready for junior ski schools.

Drop-in class

Mini Racers Club
Saturday 10:45 - 11:45

Mini Sliders Club
Saturday 12:00 - 13:00
 

Children who are Snow Leopard or Himalayan Tiger standard may wish to join the Mini Sliders, and use this to get some miles under their feet before joining the main Junior Ski Schools when they turn 6.

Children who are Himalayan Tiger standard may wish to join the Mini Racers, and use this to get some miles under their feet before joining the main Junior Ski Schools when they turn 6.

Drop-in Classes run subject to instructor availability. 
To check availability and book any of these please contact the Reception on 0131 445 4433