Fairy Penguin
The Fairy Penguin class focuses on increasing your child’s confidence in submerging for longer periods of time. We seek to provide your little one with lots of opportunities for independent swimming while kicking and paddling. Water safety elements become more complex with more difficult gripping and vertical turning activities. The use of pool noodles is introduced at this level, and it's the most confident children that will move from Fairy Penguin level to our Emperor Penguin at age 2, where they will swim on their own without Mum or Dad for the first time.
Fairy Penguins are
- Aged 1-2 Years Advanced Swimmers
- Swimming babies learning independence with Mum or Dad in the water at each lesson
- Babies who may have have graduated through Seal Pup and Polar Cub levels, who are quite comfortable and agile in the water
- Swimming babies with advanced independent mobility
- Group class of up to 6
What do our Fairy Penguins learn?
- Fun songs to make learning to swim fun for you and your baby.
- Continued water familiarisation and opportunities for bonding.
- Learning breath control techniques including increasing the time your child can hold their breath underwater.
- Building on your baby’s natural buoyancy skills to independent floating with little help.
- Extending your baby’s natural grasp ability to teach them to hold on to you whenever they are in water, and monkey along the pool to get to where they want to go.
- Learning to kick and paddle on cue and to understand that either or both are needed if your baby wants to move in water.
- Opportunities for your baby to swim independently.
- Learning vertical turns back to you and the wall as part of water safety.
When I graduate from Fairy Penguin
- I can accept water
- I am able to kick my legs on cue
- I am comfortable with water on my face
- I can float and kick on my back with support
- I can blow bubbles
- I can independently swim to a teacher or parent
- I can hold my breath comfortably for a minimum of 5 seconds
- I can vertically turn front to back with or without assistance
- I have basic arm movements which can propel me through the water
- I can monkey along the wall independently