Pre school Classes
We offer pre school classes for children from 4 – 6 years of age. These classes are designed to be fun and interactive and are based in the warm teaching pool. The aim of these classes is to introduce children to a wonderful world of water. In a safe and welcoming environment children will build and improve their water confidence and learn basic safety awareness.
Our Pre-school classes are child only lessons. Adults are not permitted to be in the water. Pre school levels 1 and 2 are taught in a warm pool where adults can watch in the pool area. Our Pre-school level 1 class introduces new learners to the fundamentals of being happy and safe in water. Activities include being comfortable being showered from above, to kicking and swimming 5 meters. Our Pre-school level 2 class moves swimmers on to feel more confident in deeper water and learning all four strokes. Pre-school level 3 swimmers will improve on technique and mastery.
Levels
Pre school
Level 1
ages 4-6 years
This is our introductory course and is for children with little or no experience of Swimming . This may be the child’s first introduction to a structured swimming lesson. In this course we introduce a safe and fun environment for children to build confidence and learn the basis of safety awareness. Through fun, games and structured training, we will encourage children to move through the water with confidence, wash their face, be comfortable being showered from above as well as blow bubbles, submerge their face in the water, push and glide, kick forward whilst being supported, float on their fronts and backs and for some to swim unaided. We will train with kickboards and noodles to move forwards. These early confident skills are fundamental to the foundation of learning to swim with confidence.
Assessment goals: Baddaren – Grön, Blå, Gul, Skölpaddan, Bläckfisken.
Skills to be achieved should include – Safe entry/exit of pool, Confidence moving around the pool, basic understanding of inhaling, holding and blowing of breath, introduction to kicking, rotating, pushing and gliding and water safety and enjoying coming to lessons.
Prerequisite – no prior experience.
Pre-school
Level 2
ages 4-6 years
This is a continuation class from our preschool level one. In this class, we continue to build water confidence through fun and structured activities. We continue to learn breathing techniques and start to better understand rotation. We learn to float for longer, stretch our bodies straighter. We begin to learn the correct leg kicks for all 4 strokes. We start training in deep water, with jumping and floating and push and glides. We train with kickboards and noodles.
Assessment goals: Bläckfisken, Pingvinen Silver and Pingvinen Guld.
Skills to be achieved should include – Gaining a greater understanding of breathing, blowing out slowly for longer, confidence to collect toys from the pool floor, rotation – floating and changing from front to back or forwards and backwards, building on all 4 strokes, swimming 10 – 25 meters unaided.
Prerequisite: Swimmers have completed Pre-school level 1. This class is for swimmers who are already very water confident. Swimmers should be able to – submerge their face fully under water and blow bubbles, push and glide with their face submerged in deep water without using a kickboard or noodle for at least 5 seconds. Swimmers should be able to kick their legs and move forward whilst using a Noodle or Kick board for at least 10 meters on their front and back. Swimmers should already hold a 5 meters award. Swimmers should be able to relay 1 or 2 water safety rules.
Pre-school
Level 3+
ages 4-7 years
This class is for younger children who can already swim 25 meters. In this class we will work on developing technique, increasing stamina, diving, surface diving, treading water, water safety, Swedish boat and bath rules. This preschool advanced swimmers class aims to provide a more fun but well structured advanced swimming class. We appreciate that some of our younger swimmers can already swim 50 meters, but are still very young and might lack focus for the duration of the class. We hope to offer children of this age a balance of advanced learning with a fun, safe experience. Pre schoolers turning 7 years of age will be invited to join the 7+ level 5 or 6 class, they will skip at least 7+ level 4.
Assessment goals: Silverfisken, Guldfisken and Järnmärket.
Skills to be achieved should include – Greater distance awards, greater understanding of water/pool safety, advanced rotational understanding – including surface dives, life-saving including swimming with clothing/throwing of a life buoy.
Prerequisite – Swimmers must be able to swim at least 20 meters on their front and back without use of a kickboard or noodle. This program will be specific for pre-school advanced swimmers only. There will be a greater emphasis on play which will be incorporated in stroke development and deep water activities.
