Heather Downs Pool Association

LEVEL 5: 9:00 - 9:30am

Stroke Refinement: Building on Level 4 skills, students improve upon all swimming strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, elementary backstroke anad sidestroke. Distance is increased, students tread longer; survival swimming, flip-turns, and body control is stressed.

 

LEVEL 4: 9:30 - 10:00am

Stroke Improvement: Building on Level 3 skills, students swim longer distances of freestyle and backstroke and continue to improve in butterfly. Breaststroke and sidestroke are also introduced; longer treading, survival floating, diving improvement and swimming stamina is developed.

 

LEVEL 3: 10:00 - 10:30am

Stroke Development: Building on Level 2 skills, students strengthen swimming strokes, front crawl, backstroke and learning butterfly. Diving, unsupported treading water is introduced at this level.

 

LEVEL 2: 10:30 - 11:00am

Fundamental Aquatic Skills: Giving students success with fundamental skills. Floating without support front and back, learning front/back crawl, swimming independently.

 

LEVEL 1: 11:00 - 11:30am

Introduction to Water Skills: Helping make students feel comfortable in the water. Child always swims with an instructor and does not swim independently.

 

Please note that the levels are a guide to assist scheduling a class only – each swimmer is taught according to his or her own individual level.