Learn to Swim

At KirbySwim, we run Learn to Swim lessons for children aged 3 years up at out all of our programs (Christ Church, Mandurah, Claremont Pool and Mount Lawley).

Learning to swim is a very important skill for all children to learn.  As each child is different it is important that swimming lessons be flexible in their delivery so that every child has the opportunity to improve and acquire skills at their own pace.  All our learn-to-swim lessons at Kirby Swim have samll class sizes, this helps kids to learn and practise more skills in every class, making the time spent in the pool as productive as possible.

We offer 4 Main levels within our learn-to swim program:

	Sea Horses: For the very beginner. Sea Horses are usually unconfident beginners who are unable to place their head underwater.  Swimmers are taught confidence, safe entry/exit, breath holding and submersion, floating and kicking. Lots of games and fun are used to encourage children to begin to enjoy the swimming experience.
	Squid: The confident beginner. The Squid may have done baby swim lessons previously or enjoyed horsing around in the pool with floaties on. Squids learn submersion and retrieval, diving, kicking, and 'big' freestyle arms.
	Stingray: The Stingray learns and develops their freestyle and backstroke with the teaching of side breathing and longer distances between stops to encourage technique. Stingrays also learn standing dives and may even progress to diving from the blocks! Breastroke kick is introduced.
	Snapper: The Snapper has good freestyle and backstroke and technique work focuses on making their 'good' strokes better. Breastroke timing is a focus of the Snapper and by the time a Snapper graduates they can swim 25m freestyle, backstroke and 15m breastroke.

Class Dynamics

To have the best possible class dynamics we aim to match the swimmers into age and ability appropriate classes. To help achieve this we have Advanced classes for each level, (Advanced Seahorses, Advanced Squids, Advanced Stingrays and Advanced Snappers). This ensure every swimmer is extended to the level appropriate fro them.

  Assesssments and Your Child's Progress                                                                                                                                                  

Swimmers have ongiong assessments by the instructor and our deck supervisor, this means they don't have to wait out out a whole term to progress into the next level. We also have progress weeks where the instructors make the swimmers go through every skill in each level and make a record of the mastered skills for the parents and swimmers to take home. Expect the progress weeks to occur every 10 weeks.

All swimmers need to be assessed before enrolling- please contact the office on 9442 1617
to arrange this.