LEARN TO SWIM COURSE DESCRIPTIONS PARENT & CHILD LEVEL 1 Ages 6 months - 3 years Course introduces basic skills to parents and children. Parents are taught to safely and appropriately hold their child in the water while preparing and encouraging their child to participate fully and try the skills. Water safety topics are also introduced and directed to parents. These basic skills will lay the foundation to help them learn to swim in the future. PARENT & CHILD LEVEL 2 Ages 6 months - 3 years Participants improve on skills from Parent and Child Level 1 and learn more advanced skills to prepare them for Preschool Swim Lessons. Three year olds ready to learn without a parent or caregiver should enroll in Preschool Swim Lessons. PRESCHOOL LEVEL 1 Ages 3 - 5 years Helps participants feel comfortable in the water and to enjoy the water. Participants learn elementary aquatic skills such as learning underwater exploration while opening eyes, blowing bubbles and floating with assistance. Participants start developing good attitudes and safe practices around the water. There are no prerequisites for this course. PRESCHOOL LEVEL 2 Ages 3 - 5 years Participants must have completed exit skills in Preschool Swim Level 1. In Preschool Level 2, participants are going under the water completely while blowing bubbles out of their mouth and nose. Participants learn to float without support and how to recover to a vertical position. This level marks the beginning of true locomotive skills while building on the skills already learned. PRESCHOOL LEVEL 3 Ages 3 - 5 years Participants must have completed exit skills in Preschool Level 2 Swim Lessons. While building on skills learned in Preschool Level 2, participants learn to effectively coordinate combined simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions. Preschool Level 3 lets participants master being able to perform skills without assistance. LEVEL 1 INTRO TO WATER SKILLS Ages 6 - 13 years School-age participants learn elementary aquatic skills. Level 1 helps participants feel comfortable in the water and to enjoy the water, learn underwater exploration while opening eyes, blowing bubbles and floating with assistance. Participants start developing good attitudes and safe practices around the water. LEVEL 2 FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS Ages 6 - 13 years Participants must have completed exit skills in Level 1. At this level, participants are going under the water completely while blowing bubbles out of their nose and mouth. Participants learn to float without support and how to recover to a vertical position. This level marks the beginning of true locomotive skills while building on the skills learned in Level 1. LEVEL 3 STROKE DEVELOPMENT Ages 6 - 13 years Participants must have completed exit skills in Level 2. While building on skills learned in Level 2, participants learn to effectively coordinate combined simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions. This level lets participants master being able to perform skills without assistance. Learn survival float, elementary backstroke and coordination of the front crawl. Learn also dolphin and scissor kicks. LEVEL 4 STROKE IMPROVEMENT Ages 6 - 13 years Participants must have completed exit skills in Level 3. Back crawl and breaststroke are introduced in this level. Endurance is also a key factor for this level. Participants continue to build upon the scissor kick and dolphin kick by adding the arms for sidestroke and butterfly. LEVEL 5 STROKE REFINEMENT Ages 6 - 13 years Participants must have completed exit skills in Level 4. In this level, participants coordinate and refine all strokes. Flip turns on both front and back are introduced at this level. Endurance and distance are important in this level ADULT LEARNING THE BASICS SWIM CLASS Age 13 years and up This class can help teens or adults overcome their fear of the water and learn the basic skills to achieve a minimum level of water competency. In this course, participants strive for skill and stroke performance to be able to jump into deep water from the side, swim front crawl for 15 yards, maintain position by treading or floating for 30 seconds and swim elementary backstroke for 15 yards. ADULT REFINING SWIM STROKES CLASS Age 13 years and up This class is for teens or adults who want to improve their foundational skills and swimming strokes to gain an overall level of comfort in the water, to be able to enjoy the water more safely with their children because they own a home pool or to open the door to training for other aquatic opportunities, such as to learn SCUBA. ADULT FITNESS SWIMMING CLASS Age 13 years and up This class is for adults who swim for fitness and want to learn to refine their strokes for a variety of reasons. Some may want to use the benefits of the water to improve their fitness levels, while others may want to participate in a masters swimming program or other competitive sports, such as, triathlons or open water distance swimming. Email: aquatics@raleighnc.gov • Web: www.raleighnc.gov, keyword RaleighAqua • Register: reclink.raleighnc.gov Swim Lesson Hotline: 919-996-2109 • Administration Office: 919-996-6852 • Administration Fax: 919-831-6470 5
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