Seal
The Seal class sees the introduction of bilateral breathing while swimming freestyle. This level also covers more advanced principals of backstroke with children starting to swim the full stroke independently. Breaststroke kick is also introduced in this level, with children focusing on symmetry. Water safety elements include problem solving and implementing survival techniques over distance. At the end of this level children should be swimming freestyle with bilateral breathing, as well as independent backstroke.
Seal are
- Skill based progression
- Confident in the water
- Learning the basics of stroke development
- Group class of 2 to 4
What do our Seal learn?
- Introduction to bilateral breathing while fine tuning freestyle technique
- Developing full backstroke technique independently
- Increasing problem solving skills and survival techniques over longer distances.
When I graduate from Seal
- I am a confident swimmer
- I am able to do backstroke with support
- I can keep my eyes down whilst blowing bubbles for a minimum of 5 seconds whilst moving through the water
- I can produce breaststroke kick with a little help
- I can streamline kick through the water independently
- I can doggy paddle and roll onto my back 3 x times over 10m
- I can produce freestyle with bilateral breathing without a kickboard
- I can do a safety fall in and roll onto my back into a back float independently