Otter
The Otter 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. Most children will move from this level to a Seal level at the age of 3 years. More confident children however, may move to the Emperor Penguin level from the age of 2 years.
Otters are
- Aged 2-3 Years
- Swimming toddlers learning independence with Mum or Dad in the water each lesson
- Toddlers who may have a small amount of water and swimming experience to swimming toddlers who are quite comfortable and agile in the water
- Swimming toddlers with advanced independent mobility
- Group class of up to 6
What do our Otters learn?
- Lots of 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 toddler's natural buoyancy skills to independent floating with and without your help.
- Extending your toddler's natural grasp ability to teach them to hold on to you whenever they are in water, and monkey along you or 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 toddler wants to move in water.
- Opportunities for your toddler to swim independently.
- Learning vertical turns back to you and the wall as part of water safety.
When I graduate from Otter
- 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