Our Classes

Learning to swim is such an important life skill, and the earlier you expose your child to swimming the more confident and natural they will feel in and around water, giving them a solid foundation and teaching them the correct skills they need to become water confident.

Our classes are based upon various baby & toddler swimming techniques with the emphasis on teaching pool safety being of utmost importance. We believe children learn through each other and most of all in a happy and relaxed environment, so we design our lessons around fun activities including toys, songs and games. Parent or guardian is in the water with the child and the instructor facilitates the class directing the parent or guardian.

The benefits are:

• Enables parents to learn how to handle their child confidently in the water
• Creates water awareness and water orientation
• Bonding with parent/child care giver
• Early introduction to water may prevent aquaphobia which can develop as a child grows older
• Becoming acquainted with submersion
• Water adaptation, child learns to enjoy water through fun activities while performing drills in preparation for water confidence skills and stroke technique at a later stage

This level is a progression from Todswim. Beginners start with the Learn to Swim programme on a one-to-one basis, emphasising enjoyment, building confidence and aiming for the level of being able to swim confidently without aid. Once swimmer reaches an advanced stage of water skills they can be paired up with another swimmer at a similar level to encourage stimulation and progression.

Swimmers move through various skill levels in order to achieve a confident water skill level to advance on to stroke technique.

Once competent with “skills level” swimmers progress to learn all 4 stroke techniques progressing through the following levels.

Fish – backstroke/crawl/breathing/diving

Dolphin – breaststroke/diving

Shark – butterfly/starts/turns/polishing of strokes

On completion of all the above levels swimmers have the option to join Mini Squad or Advanced Squad depending on age and level of swimming.

Swimmers build on stroke technique developing speed and stamina in preparation for Advanced Squad training.

Once swimmers have achieved a competent level of stroke techniques for all 4 stroke disciplines they are invited to attend non-competitive Advanced Squad training.

This is conducted in a 25 metre pool, the sessions are 30 minutes for beginners and 45 minutes for advanced. The emphasis is still on stroke quality as well as building on strength, speed, endurance and holding their stroke over distance. It is also preparation for school level galas and a great springboard toward club level swimming.