Outdoor Pools – Holiday Learn to Swim Lessons Level Information
Infant program levels
Teachers assess and progress children through the program levels, based on their individual ability.
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Description |
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Starfish
Ages: 6-12 months
Class size: 8 students
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- Parent or carer in water with child
- Parent or 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
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Perwinkle
Ages: 1-2 years
Class size: 8 students
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- Parent/carer in water with child
- Parent/carer water safety education
- Comfortable and confident in water
- Independently follows simple requests
- Comfortable and confident submersion on request
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Minnow
Ages: 2-3.5 years
Class size: 8 students
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- Buoyancy and flotation activities
- Introduction to kicking and arm movement
- Introduction to blowing bubbles
- Deliberate movement towards a target
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Preschool program levels
Teachers assess and progress children through the program levels, based on their individual ability.
| Level |
Description |
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Tadpole
Ages: 3.5-5 years
Class size: 4 students
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- 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
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Goldfish
Ages: 3.5-5 years
Class size: 5 students
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- Jump entry and return to edge
- Independent rollover
- Recover object from chest-deep water
- Introductory whip kick
- Freestyle and backstroke arms
- Tread water for 15 seconds
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Flying fish
Ages: 3.5-5 years
Class size: 5 students
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- Step in entry and recover
- Freestyle and backstroke 10 metres
- Introduction to breaststroke, survival backstroke and butterfly kick
- Duck dive, swim underwater and recover an object
- Throw a buoyant aid and direct a partner to safety
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School-age program levels
Teachers assess and progress children through the program levels, based on their individual ability.
| Level |
Description |
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Octopus
Ages: 5+ years
Class size: 5 students
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- Kick on front and back with aid 5 metres
- Paddle and kick
- Torpedo 3 metres
- Treading water
- Introduction to freestyle and backstroke arms
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Sardine
Ages: 5+ years
Class size: 6 students
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- Jump entry into deep water and recover
- Kick on front with aid and side breathing 10 metres
- Introductory whip kick
- Backstroke, freestyle and torpedo 5 metres
- Float, scull and tread water for 30 seconds and signal for help
- Duck dive
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Salmon
Ages: 5+ years
Class size: 6 students
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- Kneeling dive
- Step in entry and recover
- Freestyle and backstroke 12 metres
- Survival backstroke with aid 5 metres
- Breaststroke kick with aid 5 metres
- Float, scull and tread water for 1 minute and signal for help
- Duck dive, swim underwater for 3 metres and recover object
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Tuna
Ages: 5+ years
Class size: 6 students
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- Stride entry
- Freestyle and backstroke 25 metres
- Survival backstroke 25 metres
- Breaststroke kick 12 metres
- Forward somersault
- Crouch dive
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Dolphin
Ages: 5+ years
Class size: 8 students
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- Freestyle and backstroke 50 metres
- Survival backstroke and breaststroke 25 metres
- Tumble turn
- Dolphin kick and sidestroke 12 metres
- Shallow dive
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Shark
Ages: 5+ years
Class size: 8 students
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- Feet first surface dive
- Freestyle and backstroke 100 metres
- Survival backstroke and breaststroke 50 metres
- Butterfly 15 metres
- Sidestroke 25 metres
- Using combination of strokes 400 metre swim
- Clothed swim, float, scull and tread water for 5 minutes, remove clothes and swim for 5 minutes
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