Pre school Classes
We offer pre school classes for children from 4 – 7 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 aquatic skills. All of our Pre-school classes are child only lessons. Adults are not expected to be in the water with their child. Pre school levels 1-2 are in a warm pool where adults can watch in the pool area. We will teach Front and back paddle, Crawl (Freestyle), Backstroke, Breaststroke and an introduction to Butterfly.
Levels
Pre school
Level 1
ages 4-7 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 in the water. Through fun, games and structured training, we will encourage children to 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. Please note that some children may stay in this class for many courses. These early confident skills are fundamental to the foundation of learning to swim with confidence.
Assessment goals: Baddaren – Grön, Blå, Skölpaddan, Bläckfisken.
Prerequisite – no prior experience.
Pre-school
Level 2
ages 4-7 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 introduce and breakdown stroke techniques and train with kickboards and noodles.
Assessment goals: Baddaren, Skölpaddan, Bläckfisken, Pingvinen Silver, Pingvinen Guld.
Prerequisite: This class is for swimmers who are already water confident. Swimmers should be able to – submerge their face fully under water and blow bubbles, push and glide with their face submerged, kick their legs and move forward whilst using a Noodle or Kick board and float on their backs whilst using a Noodle.
Pre-school
Level 3+
ages 4-7 years
Note that the Saturday class is in a warm pool where parents can watch, however the Sunday class is in a 25 meter training pool where parents can only watch the first and last lesson.
This class is for children who can already swim 10 meters or more. (Level 4 – 6 is equivalent to the GoWaters 7+ program). In this class swimmers will focus on improving their technique of each stroke. 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 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 experience.
Assessment goals: Pingvinen Guld, Silverfisken, Guldfisken, Järnmärket, Bronsmärket, Hajen Brons och Hajen Silver Awards.
Prerequisite – Swimmers must be able to swim unaided for at least 10 meters on front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke. 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.
