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2024 Swimming Lesson Calendar

YMCA Swimming Lessons

Starfish

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

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

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

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

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

Flying Fish

Flying Fish
  • Step in entry and recover
  • Freestyle and backstroke 10 metres
  • Introduction to breaststroke and butterfly kick
  • Duck dive, swim underwater and recover an object
  • Throw an aid and direct a swimmer to safety
  • One new National Swimming and Water Safety benchmark skill achieved!
Age Range
3 - 5 years
Class Size
5:1

Octopus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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