Swim School

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what level your child is!

Introduction to Water Skills: helps students feel comfortable in the water and to enjoy the water safely.

Fundamental Aquatic Skills: gives students success with fundamental skills.

Stroke Development: builds on the skills in Level 2 by providing additional guided practice.

Stroke Improvement: develops confidence in the strokes learned and to improve other aquatic skills.

Stroke Refinement: provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.

Swimming and Skill Proficiency: refines the strokes so students swim them with ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over greater distances.

The American Red Cross

Learn-to-Swim Program

provides instruction to help swimmers of all ages and abilities develop their swimming and water safety skills. It is designed to give students a positive learning experience.

Learn-to-Swim teaches aquatic and safety skills in a logical progression. The objective is to teach people to swim and to be safe in, on and around the water.

Skills are categorized in the following way:

1. Water Entry

& Exit

2. Breath Control

Underwater Swimming

3. Buoyancy

4. Changing

Direction &

Position

5. Treading

6. Swimming

on Front, Back

& Side

7. General &

Personal

Water Safety

8. Helping Others