Sea Lion
Our Sea Lion class commences the journey of learning swimming strokes or your child. We start with freestyle in this level, with children practicing their big freestyle arms and starting to learn the concept of side breathing. This level also develops your child’s skills on their back through sculling and kicking which form the very basic skills for backstroke. Water safety elements become more advanced with children learning to independently roll onto their back and float and perform more advanced safety falls. By the time your child is ready to move out of this class, they will be swimming basic freestyle independently, and be comfortable while floating on their back.
Sea Lions are
- Skill based progression
- Confident in the water
- Group class of up to 4
What do our Sea Lions learn?
- Introduction to Freestyle and learning about the concept of side breathing
- Development of independent swimming on your child’s back - including sculling and kicking.
- More advanced water safety skills including independent safety falls and recovery.
When I graduate from Sea Lion
- I am a reasonably confident swimmer
- I can float on my back with little support comfortably for a minimum of 5 seconds
- I can keep my eyes down whilst blowing bubbles for a minimum of 5 seconds while moving through the water
- I can comfortably kick on my back with a kickboard
- I have a strong kick which alone can propel me through the water
- I can do a safe entry and exit independently
- I can competently produce freestyle arms through the water
- I can do a safety fall in and turn back to the wall independently
- I am capable of swimming basic freestyle for 5 metres independently