Swimming Lessons for School-Aged are suitable for children 4.5/5 years old and above.
School-aged children could have different swimming abilities depending on when they started to learn swimming and if they have taken any formal lessons and if yes, for how long. Below is the list of all levels we offer school-aged children lessons for.
Beginners
Children who are school-aged and have never done any formal swimming lessons, normally need to start at our beginners or beginners+ level depending how water-confident they are.
Beginners+
Beginners+ level is for children who are fully water-confident and can swim about 5 meters on their own, on front and back, without using any swimming aids or adult help. There is no need to swim with any particular stroke to cover 5 meters for this level.
Improvers
Children are classed as improvers level if they have done formal swimming lessons (normally from pre-school age) and can do the below:
- Swim 8-10 meters Front Crawl and Backstroke (strokes should be recognisable but not fully polished)
- Able to push off from the poolside and glide both on front and back and kick (flutter kicks) strongly at least for 8 meters.
- Can jump and/or dive safely (either from a sitting or standing position) and confidently in the deep end of the pool.
- Can pick objects from the bottom of the pool confidently.
- Can swim at least 8-10 meters in the deep end of the pool (where they cannot touch the bottom of the pool) without any floatation objects or direct help of an adult.
Improvers+
Children are classed as improvers+ level if they have done formal swimming lessons and perform all the below skills:
- Can swim 25 meters Front Crawl and Backstroke with good technique as well as performing Breaststroke and dolphin (butterfly) kicks.
- Can dive safely as well as treading and sculling water for at least 30 seconds.
- Can swim at least 50 meters continuously with recognisable swimming strokes (i.e, 25 meter of Front Crawl and 25 meter of Backstroke).
Advanced
This level is suitable For children who:
- Can swim at least 25 meters Front Crawl, Backstroke and Breaststroke with very good techniques.
- Can swim at least 100 meter continuously with recognisable swimming strokes (could be mixture of strokes).
- Can swim 15-25 meters of Butterfly.
- Can dive with good technique in the deep end of the pool.
- Can perform surface dives and pick objects up from the bottom of the pool in depth more than 2.00 m.
- You can see what we mean by ‘Can swim at least 25 meters Front Crawl’ in this video.