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Swim School

School Age (Ages 6-12)

Overview & Description


The school age curriculum has 5 stations. Classes are 30 minutes in length and have a maximum of 4 students. Below are the general goals of each station.

Love to Swim School also offers Pre-Competitive Group classes for school age students. Below is a description of this program.


Stations

Station 1 - Bubbles

  • Independent submersion of the face
  • Blowing bubbles
  • Basic kicking skills
  • 10 relaxed bobs

Station 2 - Floats, Glides and Breath Control

  • Front/back float and recover
  • Front/back glide and recover
  • Propulsive, efficient front & back kicking
  • Jumping & sitting bobs
  • Retrieve objects from the bottom of pool-4ft

Station 3 - Kicking and Endurance

  • Backward bobs
  • Vertical and horizontal rollovers front to back with 10 kicks, back to front with 10 kicks
  • Propulsive, efficient kicking 30ft
  • Elementary Backstroke

Station 4 - Switches

  • Understand how to move water effectively and powerfully
  • Apply understanding to their beginning freestyle
  • Swimmer will have a basic crawl arm stroke for a 20 foot distance upon mastery of this station

Station 5 – Freestyle (6 student max)

  • Reclining bobs
  • Introduction to backstroke
  • Freestyle with side breathing-1 length
  • Endurance kicking

Pre-Competitive Groups

These are 1 hour classes for students age 6 and up. Classes have a maximum of 8 students per instructor and are divided by ability. Groups focus on all four competitive strokes, endurance, strength, and technique refinement. Please come in for a free assessment.