Introduce your children to swimming in a fun and safe environment, giving them the confidence and skills to be safer and independent in the water.

Learning to swim also improves your child’s co-ordination and socialisation skills and fitness. Our Pre-school learners are grouped in one of the following levels according to ability.

 
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Starfish

Enter and exit the pool safely and comfortably move around the pool, submerge and blow bubbles and float aided on front and back.

Outcomes

Comfortable movement around the pool area

Float on noodle and put face under

Safe entry

Safe exit

Go under and blow bubbles

Comfortable submersion

Comfortable float on back (can be aided)

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Shrimps

Achieve a comfortable submersion and a comfortable starfish float, a body position float on front and a suction float on back, have a basic kick understanding.

Outcomes

Comfortable submersion into float

Comfortable starfish float

Suction float on front and back

Basic kick understanding

Streamlined push off

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Otters

Achieve a streamlined push off, float off the wall front and back unaided, have a good kick on front and back, turn from front to back and do 6 arm cycles freestyle.

Outcomes

Float off wall front and back

Body position kick on front arms by side (good sound)

Back float and kick unaided

Turn from front to back (minimum 5 secs on front first)

Swim with board drill 4 stroke cycles

6 arm cycles freestyle and backstroke

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Penguins

Learn kicking on side and breathing skills and drills, swim 5 metres with a board and a breathing stroke, swim 5 metres freestyle with a breathing stroke and 5 metres backstroke, do a kneeling dive.

Outcomes

Kick on side arms by side

Kick on side in breathing position

Roll Down drill with bottle or board

Swim 5m with board and a breathing stroke

Swim 5m unaided with a breathing stroke

Swim 5m Backstroke

Kneeling Dive

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Sharks

Consolidate breathing skills and develop more distance in swimming Swim 15 metres freestyle and backstroke.  Have a basic understanding of breaststroke and butterfly kick.

Outcomes

Kick on side arms by side

Kick on side in breathing position

Rotational kick 6 kicks side front side

Kick on side one arm out breathing position change to other side

Kick on back streamlined

Backstroke swim

Ability to swim a 15m lap freestyle and backstroke

Basic Dive

Basic butterfly kick understanding

Basic breaststroke kick understanding

General Notes

  • Maximum of 3 children per class, 30 minute lesson

  • Term and holiday block courses are offered

  • Warm teaching pool

  • All instructors are qualified

  • Certificates are handed out at the start of each level (once payments is made)

  • Stickers are awarded as set standards are achieved. There are 4 stickers per level and they can then be stuck on to the certificate for that level.

 

Kids Swim Programmes

 
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Waterbabies

3 to 36 months

 
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Preschool

3 to 5 years

 
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School Age

5 years +