Beginner

Beginner 1

The purple group is our first lesson for swimmers over the age of 4. These young people may or may not have had lessons before, but they are not swimming independently just yet.

The class syllabus includes bubble work where we get the young people used to having their faces in the water. Moving on to understanding how to expel air.

Confidence grows through gentle challenges to be more independent; firstly, with floatation devices and/or the supporting hands of our instructors and ultimately small distances alone.

A teacher and an assistant are in the water supporting the class of normally 6 swimmers.

Beginner

Beginner 2

The beginner 2 class is for those who can swim a little distance on their own. The swimmers continue to grow in confidence working on swimming on their fronts and backs. The distance badges that the pink group work towards are 2m and 5m. The skills badge is the starfish. Push and glide from the side is a core skill, alongside learning how to pick submerged items up. Occasionally this group will go to the deep end for some supported jumping in.

Two teachers are in the water supporting the class of normally 6 swimmers.

Improver

Improver 1

The green group is our improver 1 class and marks the graduation to working mostly out of the swimmer’s depth. We have a platform halfway across the pool for the swimmers to work towards and rest upon. These swimmers will be swimming greater distances on frontcrawl and backstroke and start to master breaststroke. Technically the focus is upon body position, leg and arms whilst introducing the concept of trying to breath in frontcrawl.

The key water safety messages are taught with an additional focus on safe entry and exit from the water.

Improver

Improver 2

The improver 2 class moves into deeper water. All four strokes are worked upon in this level.

Butterfly is introduced with dolphin leg kick and the other 3 strokes continue to be mastered.

Breathing and timing in our frontcrawl lessons, rhythmical breathing in breaststroke alongside fine tuning the leg action.

More distances are covered and diving also forms part of the core contrasting skills. These swimmers will work towards swimming 50m without stopping and the Octopus skill badge.

Improver

Improver 3

The Angelfish and Narwhal badge is the skills badge that the red group will work towards. The Improver 3 swimmers will start to be able to swim greater distances on all four strokes.

Rhythmical breathing and the arm action in butterfly is introduced. The finer technical pointers for the remain strokes are delivered.

Water safety skills are introduced and swimmers are encourage to climb out of the pool independently.

Intermediate

Intermediate

The blue group is the top of our widths group and swim in the deepest part of the pool. The teacher for this level teaches from the poolside. This enables them to get a good overview of all techniques. The intermediate swimmers are expected to have a good command of all strokes and be able to swim at least 100m without stopping.

Exciting concepts such as tumble turns, and competitive starts and finishes are introduced alongside life saving skills.

Advanced

Advanced 1-4

At 6.10pm on a Monday and 6.40pm on a Tuesday the format of the pool changes and 4 lanes are placed for our three advanced groups.

The advanced swimmers progress through levels 1 to 4. The course content for Advanced 1 is very similar to that of our intermediate group but over lengths rather than widths.

The distance for each group increases with more complex concepts and drills being introduced as the swimmers work their way through the advanced programme. We occasionally have 'guest trainers' in to complete a variety of sessions with the length swimmers.