School Age

Weekly Schedule

WEDNESDAY 2:00PM - 6:30PM

THURSDAY 2:00PM - 6:30PM

SATURDAY 8:00AM - 12:30PM

Age group: + 5 Years
Duration: 30 minutes
Maximum capacity per class: 5
Mini Squad Costs for 10 sessions: $200

Developmental Squad Costs for 10 sessions: $225

Our School Age program is based on simple progressions, executed well with correct technique and body positioning in the water. We believe moving children are learning children and so these classes are focused on keeping the children active, practicing, and repeating the skills being taught. It is important to us that the children develop an understanding of what being and moving in the water feels like and how this affects their bodies. This stage of water familiarisation and confidence building is important to us. It provides the basis for a more relaxed and smoother transition through the more technical swimming progressions. We believe a great program blends water safety into every session and this is an important focus for us. We teach the kids to turn around and find the side if they fall in and how to rotate from front to back and float.

Our squads, the last two levels of the School Age Program, are focused on correct technique as well as increasing stamina and endurance. The sessions are based on a balance of demands and fun. We attempt to make the sessions enjoyable whilst extending the swimmers. We believe if the children are enjoying their swimming training they will stay in the program and the sport for longer. As the swimmers’ progress and master freestyle and backstroke they will begin to develop their breaststroke and butterfly skills. These squads are pre-competitive squads, but we hold termly race nights for interested swimmers to give them an introduction to competitive swimming in a safe and non-threatening environment. All swimmers also participate in a 200m Aquatic Sequence Challenge each term.

6 School Age Levels