2024 Swimming Lesson Calendar
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YMCA Swimming Classes
Starfish
- Parent / carer in water with child
- Parent / carer water safety education
- Socialising with group activities
- Water exploration activities
- Buoyancy and flotation activities with attempted movement towards a target, with and without aids
- Age Range
- 6 - 12 months
- Class Size
- 8:1
Periwinkle
- Parent / carer in water with child
- Parent / carer water safety education
- Comfortable and confident in water
- Progressions towards floating and kicking
- Comfortable and confident submersion on request
- Age Range
- 1 - 2 years
- Class Size
- 8:1
Minnow
- Parent / carer in water with child
- Buoyancy and flotation activities
- Kicking and arm movements
- Recovery from a fall in
- Deliberate movement towards a target
- Age Range
- 2 - 3 years
- Class Size
- 8:1
Tadpole
- Push and glide with bubbles
- Independent submersion with bubbles
- Aided jump entry and return to edge
- Extended arm paddle
- Aided kick on front and back
- Aided treading water
- Torpedo three metres
- One National Swimming and Water Safety benchmark skill achieved!
- Age Range
- 3 - 5 years
- Class Size
- 5:1
Goldfish
- Jump entry and return to edge
- Independent rollover
- Recover object from chest-deep water
- Freestyle and backstroke basics
- Introductory survival backstroke
- Tread water for 15 seconds
- Five new National Swimming and Water Safety benchmark skills achieved!
- Age Range
- 3 - 5 years
- Class Size
- 5:1
Octopus
- Kicking and floating on front and back
- Paddle and kick
- Torpedoes
- Treading water
- Introduction to freestyle and backstroke
- Two National Swimming and Water Safety benchmark skills achieved
- Age Range
- 5 years +
- Class Size
- 6:1
Sardine
- Jump entry and recover to safety
- Kicking on front and side breathing
- Introductory whip kick
- Foundational backstroke and freestyle
- Floating, sculling and treading water
- Duck diving
- Five new National Swimming and Water Safety benchmark skills achieved!
- Age Range
- 5 years +
- Class Size
- 6:1
Turtle
- Underwater push and glides
- Side breathing skills
- Breaststroke and survival breaststroke kick
- Survival sequences
- Freestyle and backstroke
- Age Range
- 5 years +
- Class Size
- 6:1
Salmon
- Crouch dive
- Step-in and compact entries
- Freestyle and backstroke (12 metre achievement)
- Survival backstroke (25 metre achievement)
- Breaststroke kick with breathing
- Age Range
- 5 years +
- Class Size
- 7:1
Tuna
- Stride entry
- Freestyle and backstroke (25 metre achievement)
- Survival backstroke (50 metre achievement)
- Breaststroke (25 metre achievement)
- Performance skills: pace clock, tumble turns, egg-beater kick
- Shallow dives
- Five new National Swimming and Water Safety benchmark skills achieved!
- Age Range
- 5 years +
- Class Size
- 7:1
Dolphin
- Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke (50 metre achievement)
- 20 minute endurance swim
- Performance skills: backstroke starts, complex tumble turns, racing dives and water polo basics
- Butterfly (15 metre achievement)
- Sidestroke kick
- Survival sequences wearing clothing and using life jackets
- Three new National Swimming and Water Safety benchmark skills achieved!
- Age Range
- 5 years +
- Class Size
- 8:1
Shark
- Various safe entry techniques
- Freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke (100 metre achievement)
- 20 minute endurance swim
- Butterfly (50 metre achievement)
- Performance skills: individual medley swimming, pace clock interval training, touch turns, water polo ball skills
- Survival sequences including basic emergency response
- Age Range
- 5 years +
- Class Size
- 8:1