Swim Instruction Programs

Level Descriptions:

Water Babies (6 months - 3 years): This class allows the youngest kids and their parents to learn basic water safety skills that will help establish a valuable water safety base for the future.

• Water Babies Parent/Child Independent Practice Guide
  

Toddler (3 years & Parent Required): These lessons are a transition class from Water Babies to Swim Lessons. In this 3-year-old only class, kids are introduced to basic aquatic skills, which children continue to build on as they progress through future levels. 

• Toddler Parent/Child Independent Practice Guide

Preschool Level 1 (4-5 years): The objectives of this level are to further develop basic aquatics skills. Children begin to perform these skills at a slightly more advanced level (for example, for longer lengths of time, for longer distances or in deeper water). This marks the beginning of independent aquatic locomotion skills. Children continue to explore using simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back to gain greater proficiency in preparation for performing strokes.

• Preschool Level 1 Parent/Child Independent Practice Guide
  

Preschool Level 2 (4-5 years): The objective of this level is to increase children’s proficiency in performing previously learned skills. This is accomplished by providing additional guided practice and increasing repetitions, distances, times or levels of refinement. The skills are performed independently. Children improve their coordination and control of combined simultaneous arm and leg actions and alternating arm and leg actions.

• Preschool Level 2 Parent/Child Independent Practice Guide
  

Beginner School Age Level 1 (6-14 years): This level introduces basic aquatic skills, which participants continue to build on as they progress through swim lessons. In addition, participants start developing positive attitudes, effective swimming habits and safe practices in and around the water.

• Beginner School Age Level 1 Parent/Child Independent Practice Guide
  

Beginner School Age Level 2 (6-14 years): This level marks the beginning of true locomotion skills. Participants learn to glide and float without support and recover to a vertical position. Participants further develop simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back, laying the foundation for future strokes.

• Beginner School Age Level 2 Parent/Child Independent Practice Guide

Intermediate School Age Level 1 (6-14 years): The objectives of this level are to expand proficiency of previously learned skills by providing additional guided practice. Participants learn and practice survival floating and learn to swim front crawl and elementary backstroke at rudimentary proficiency levels. They are introduced to the scissors and dolphin kicks and extend the time duration for treading water.

• Intermediate School Age Level 1 Parent/Child Independent Practice Guide 

Intermediate School Age Level 2 (6-14 years): Participants improve their aquatic skills and increase their endurance by swimming the strokes learned in the previous level (front crawl, elementary backstroke) for greater distances and with more advanced proficiency. Participants add arm actions to the previously learned scissors kick and breaststroke kick to perform the rudimentary sidestroke and to learn the breaststroke. Participants begin to learn the back crawl and butterfly, as well as the basics of performing a simple open turn at a wall.

• Intermediate School Age Level 2 Parent/Child Independent Practice Guide
  

Hurricane Swim League (6-17 years) (Advanced): The Hurricane Swim League is the City Pool's version of advanced swim lessons. After passing Intermediate lessons, the Hurricane Swim League is the next recommended level. For more information and to register for Hurricanes, click this link, Hurricane Swim League.