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Learn to Swim and Love It

Whether entering the water for the first time or continuing to improve, the Swim Academy can improve and educate you and your child on the finer points of swimming.  The program will be divided into 3 sections: Parent and Child Aquatics, Pre-School Aquatics (levels 1-3), and Learn to Swim (levels 1-6).  Pre-school Aquatics and Learn to Swim are 45-minute classes.  Parent and Child Aquatics is a 30-minute class.  Class descriptions are below.

One swim class per week (45 minutes)

Session 1 pricing:

Parent/Child -  $65m/$100p by Jan 1;  $80m/$110p after Jan 1
Levels 1-6 - $100m/$150p by Jan 1;  $115m/$160p after Jan 1
For class times, please click on your preferred building:   SFC  |  Fox
 

Session 2 pricing:

Parent/Child - $39m/$60p by March 18; $54m/$70p after March 18
Levels 1-6 - $60m/$90p by March 18; $75m/$109p after March 18
For class times, please click on your preferred building: SFC | Fox
 

Register online:   SFC   |   Fox

Contact: Kyle Fetick, 314-442-3296

Click here for Private Lesson information 

Swim Level Descriptions

Parent and Child Aquatics (6 months to 3 years):
Introduces basic skills to parents and children.  Parents are taught to safely work with their child in the water, including how to appropriately support and hold their child in the water and how to prepare and encourage their child to participate fully and try new skills.  Children are introduced to basic skills that lay a foundation to help them learn to swim.  Safety topics are also introduced that are directed more to the parents.  Parent(s) are required to be in the water with their child.

Pre-School Age Aquatics Levels (3, 4, and 5 years):
Children start developing good attitudes and safe practices around the water.  Basic aquatic skills are learned and developed, skills are performed with assistance.  Independent aquatic locomotion skills are introduced.  Children explore movements using simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back to gain more proficiency for future strokes.  Skills progression to independent performance, improve coordination of combined simultaneous arm and leg actions and alternating arm and leg actions.  Additional safety skills are introduced and improved comprehension of previous knowledge is emphasized.

Swim Academy Levels

• Level I: ( Aleph) Introduction to Water Skills
  Elementary aquatic skills are taught to help participants feel comfortable in the water and to enjoy the water safely.  At this level participants start developing positive attitudes, good swimming habits and safe practices in and around the water.
• Level II: (Bet) Fundamental Aquatic Skills
  The objective of this level is to give participants success with fundamental skills.  Participants learn to float without support and recover to a vertical position.  This level marks the beginning of true locomotion skills.  Participants work on the development of simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on their front and back that lay the foundation for future strokes.
• Level III: (Gimel) Stroke Development
  The objective is to build on previous learned skills by providing additional guided practice.  Survival floating, the front crawl and the elementary backstroke are taught.  Rules for headfirst entries and introduced.  The scissors and dolphin kicks are introduced.
• Level IV: (Dalet) Stroke Improvement
  The objective of this level is to develop participants' confidence in the strokes learned thus far and to improve other aquatic skills.  Participants also start to learn the back crawl, breaststroke, and butterfly and the basics of turning at a wall.
• Level V: (Hey) Stroke Refinement
  Coordination and refinement of all six swimming strokes.  Flip turns on the front and back are also introduced.
• Level VI: (Vov) Fitness Swimmer
  Refine strokes so participants swim them with more ease, efficiency, power and smoothness and over greater distances.  This level also introduces other aquatic activities and offers options in personal water safety, fundamentals of diving and fitness swimmer.