Dolphin
The Dolphin class is the first level that sees children swim the full length of the pool. We continue to finetune freestyle and backstroke technique, while focuses in more detail on breaststroke with the introduction of breaststroke arms. Water safety concepts are extended in this class with children learning survival backstroke. By the time your child is ready to move up from this level, they will be swimming freestyle and backstroke confidently, survival backstroke, and producing symmetrical kick and arms when swimming breaststroke.
Dolphin are
- Skill based progression
- Confident in full strokes
- Group classes of 2 to 4
What do our Dolphin learn?
- Your child will swim the full length of the pool for the first time
- Freestyle and Backstroke technique is fine tuned
- We introduce Breaststroke arms for the first time
- Survival Backstroke is also introduced as part of water safety
When I graduate from Dolphin
- I am a confident swimmer
- I can produce symmetrical breaststroke kick & arms
- I can swim 15m comfortably and independently
- I can doggy paddle and roll onto my back 4 x times over the length of the pool
- I can streamline kick through the water independently
- I can do an underwater somersault with assistance
- I can produce freestyle with bilateral breathing independently without a kickboard
- I can swim survival backstroke over the length of the pool
- I can swim backstroke without assistance