The purpose of the course is to familiarize children with the water and teach swimming readiness skills. In addition, Parent and Child Aquatics provides safety information for parents and teaches parents techniques they can use to help orient their children to the water. Children build self-confidence, listening, and water safety skills as well as floating, bubbles, and kicking through songs, games, and other activities.

Preschool Aquatics Level 1 is designed to orient young preschoolers to the

aquatic environment and to help them gain basic aquatic skills. In addition,

participants start learning about how to be safe around water. Swimmers will learn skills such as floating independently, gliding independently with their eyes in, kicking, and jumping in to swim back to the wall and climb out safely.

Preschool Aquatics Level 2 builds on the basic aquatic skills and water safety skills and concepts learned in Level 1. Participants begin to perform skills at a slightly more advanced level and begin gaining rudimentary propulsive skills on both the front and the back.

School Age Level 1 introduces basic aquatic skills, which participants continue to build on as they progress through Learn-to-Swim. In addition, participants start developing positive attitudes, effective swimming habits and safe practices in and around the water. Learn-to-Swim Level 1 skills overlap with the Preschool Aquatics Level 1 and 2 skills. This class is for new swimmers and will learn to do skills such as floating independently, gliding independently with their eyes in, kicking, and jumping in to swim back to the wall and climb out safely.

The objective of the School Age Level 2 class is to give participants success with fundamental skills. This level marks the beginning of true locomotion skills. Participants learn to glide and float without support and recover to a vertical position. Participants further develop simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back, laying the foundation for future strokes. This class is designed for swimmers who are comfortable in the water and are ready to learn how to move around independently.

The objectives of School Age Level 3 are to expand proficiency of previously learned skills by providing additional guided practice. Participants will learn, and practice survival floating and learn to swim front crawl and elementary backstroke at rudimentary proficiency levels. This level will introduce the scissors and dolphin kicks and extend the time duration for treading water. 

In School Age Level 4, participants improve their aquatic skills and increase their

endurance by swimming the strokes learned in Level 3 (i.e., front crawl, elementary backstroke) for greater distances and with more advanced proficiency. Participants add arm actions to the previously learned scissors kick and breaststroke kick to perform the rudimentary sidestroke and to learn the breaststroke. Participants also begin to learn the back crawl and butterfly, as well as the basics of performing a simple open turn at a wall.

In Level 5, participants refine their performance of all six strokes (i.e., front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, breaststroke, elementary backstroke, and sidestroke) and increase the distances that they swim. Participants also learn to perform flip turns on the front and back. At this level, they will focus on swimming for exercise and gaining stamina to move to the swim team.

Interested patrons should complete and/or submit a request for Private Lessons through our Front Desk. Please be aware that it may take up to 14 business days to schedule a lesson, and that registration ends the second week into classes. Private/ Semi-Private Swim Lessons are scheduled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Semi-private swim lessons are limited to two (2) participants in the same family. All lessons are 30 minutes long, and they begin and end with the session for which they were purchased. 

American Red Cross course offered at least 3 times a year to swimmers ages 15-older. View our current Schedule to see if we are offering training classes currently!