Preschoolers
Ages 3–5 years
Levels which develop your child’s swimming and water safety skills, building motor skills, self-esteem and confidence.
Little Dippers
For children who need to build confidence in the water or become comfortable participating solo in structured lessons. No assessment is required to enter this course.
In this course your child will learn to:
Demonstrate safe and confident exploration of the pool environment
Safe entry and exit of the pool
Submerge whilst holding their breath and blowing bubbles
Assisted floats on their front and back.
Practise the following water safety skills:
Regain feet easily from a front and back float
Learn how to signal for help.
Big Dippers
An assessment is required to enter this course. We will check that your child can demonstrate safe and confident exploration of the pool environment, such as being able to confidently go underwater whilst holding their breath and blowing bubbles, and ability to do assisted floats on their front and back.
In this course your child will learn:
Unassisted floats on their front and back and confidently regaining their feet
Unassisted glides on their front in streamline position
Unassisted glides on their back with arms by their side
Practise the following water safety skills:
Assisted roll from their front to their back, and back again
Float and signal for help with and without an aid
Correctly fit a life jacket do a step entry into deep water, return to the edge for a safe exit
Duck dives and move underwater.
Seahorse
An assessment is required to enter this course. We will check that your child can float on their front and back unassisted and confidently regain their feet and glide unassisted on both their front and back.
In this course your child will learn to:
Kick on their front in streamline position
Kick on their back with arms by their side
Unassisted roll from front to back
Practise the following water safety skills:
Float and signal for help with and without an aid
Correctly fit a lifejacket, do a step entry into deep water, return to edge, and get out
Duck dives moving underwater for a slow count of 5.
Stars
An assessment is required to enter this course. We will check that your child can kick on their front in streamline position and on their back with arms by their side.
In this course your child will learn to:
Kick on their front with 4 to 6 straight arm circles
Kick on their back with 4 to 6 straight arm circles.
Practise the following water safety skills:
Control breathing whilst floating on back for 1 minute
Float and signal for help with and without an aid
Correctly fit a lifejacket, do a step entry into deep water, return to edge, and get out
Duck dives moving underwater for a slow count of 5.
Super Stars
An assessment is required to enter this course. We will check that your child can kick on their front with 4 to straight arm circles and kick on their back with 4 to 6 straight arm circles.
Super Stars is the highest level in our pre-school programme.
In this course the minimum your child will learn is:
Unassisted roll to breathe
Continuous arms on back
Introduction to caterpillar kick
Practise the following water safety skills:
Control breathing whilst floating on back for 1 minute
Float and signal for help with and without an aid
Correctly fit a lifejacket, do a step entry into deep water, return to edge, and get out
Duck dives moving underwater for a slow count of 5.
Once they have achieved these goals, they will continue to learn more complex skills until they age out into our School Aged programme.