Accompanied by an adult, infants and toddlers learn to be comfortable in the water and develop swim readiness skills through fun and confidence-building experiences, while parents learn about water safety, drowning prevention, and the importance of supervision.
A / Water Discovery:
Introduces infants and toddlers to the aquatic environment.
B / Water Exploration:
Focuses on exploring body positions, blowing bubbles, and fundamental safety and aquatic skills.
Students learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning two
benchmark skills: swim, float, swim—sequencing front glide, roll, back float, roll, front glide, and
exit—and jump, push, turn, grab.
In Water Acclimation, Water Movement,
and Water Stamina, students are taught the
recommended skills for all to have around water
including safe water habits, underwater exploration, and how to swim to safety and exit in the event
of falling into a body of water. Activities, games,
and drills, geared to reinforce learning, are utilized heavily as students progress in this skill-based
approach to swimming.
1/Water Acclimation:
Increases comfort with
underwater exploration and introduces basic self-rescue skills performed with assistance.
2/Water Movement:
Encourages forward
movement in the water and basic self-rescue skills
performed independently.
3/Water Stamina:
Develops intermediate self-rescue skills performed at longer distances than in previous stages.
Having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke technique, developing skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotional and cognitive well-being, and foster a lifetime of physical activity.
4/Stroke Introduction:
Introduces basic
stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke.
5/Stroke Development:
Introduces breast-stroke and butterfly and reinforces water safety through treading water and sidestroke.
6/Stroke Mechanics:
Refines stroke technique on all major competitive strokes and encourages swimming as part of a healthy lifestyle.