Starfish
Age guide: Six months to 2.5 years
Swim and Survive program levels: Wonder 1-3
This infant and parent class is a fantastic way for infants to experience the water and commence their learning of valuable, life-long water safety and swimming skills. Instructors provide guidance for parents on ways to hold your child in an aquatic environment and program through activities that facilitate your child's early aquatic learning in an atmosphere that is fun and stimulating.
Jellyfish
Age guide: One to 3.5 years
Swim and Survive program levels: Wonder 4-5
Building on the techniques developed in the Starfish level, Jellyfish infants will learn to focus on increased independent swimming skills, including propulsion, floating and enhanced breath control. Gradual separation from parents within this class prepares your child for the next progression step of learning to swim on their own.
Turtles
Age guide: 2.5 to five years
Swim and Survive program levels: Courage 1-3
This class allows children to develop water confidence and introduces basic swimming fundamentals such as blowing bubbles, submersion and propulsion through the water. Children are also taught survival skills including floating and treading water.
Penguins
Age guide: 3.5 to five years
Swim and Survive program levels: Courage 4-5
Children will continue to refine their safety skills such as entries and exits, sculling and kicking. This class introduces freestyle technique and children will begin to learn breathing techniques for swimming.
Crocodiles
Age guide: 5+ years
Swim and Survive program levels: Active D1-1
This class provides children with familiarisation of water and develops their confidence and knowledge of safety within aquatic environments. Children will learn breathing skills, floating and how to maintain body position during swimming strokes, as well as good streamlining technique.
Seals
Age guide: 5+ years
Swim and Survive program levels: Active D2-2
In this class, children will develop correct body position and breathing, and underwater skills such as streamlining and kicking, while swimming freestyle over distances of three metres. Instructors will also introduce children to safety equipment and survival techniques. Children are also taught survival skills including floating and treading water.
Dolphins
Age guide: 5+ years
Swim and Survive program levels: Active D3-3
Children will develop endurance in freestyle, swimming distances of up to 10 metres, and start learning backstroke skills, breaststroke and butterfly kick. This class further develops safety and survival skills and introduces safe diving.
Marlins
Age guide: 5+ years
Swim and Survive program levels: Active 5-5
This class refines the strokes of freestyle and backstroke, and introduces breaststroke arms while continuing development or breaststroke kick. Children will increase endurance conditioning and enhance swimming technique over distances of 15m. Safety and survival skills are reinforced as children develop techniques and make adjustments when performing aquatic rescue scenarios.