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While we accept students beginning at age three, some three year olds may not be ready. The child should feel comfortable being away from mom/dad for the duration of the lesson and be fully toilet trained (no swimmie diapers allowed).

All swimmers MUST bring goggles. We do want students comfortable in the water without goggles first, but goggles do enable the swimmer to see under water and increase comfort in the pool.

We will make every consideration to organize students within the levels by age.

Charles River Aquatics reserves the right to move students to other levels if they are not appropriately placed. This may require a change in time or day to accommodate schedules or session credit.

Tiny Tots

Class Duration: 30Min.

Tiny Tots is a class for very young children to learn to become comfortable in the water while in the arms of an adult he/she knows and trusts. Games, songs, and activities are designed to help children become confident in a pool environment. Our goal is to develop a love of swimming in babies and toddlers.

This class is designed for children 6 months to 3 years of age. An adult MUST accompany the child in the pool and all children are required to wear swim diapers (unless completely toilet trained).

This class is only for 3 year old children.

Pre-requisite: Must be 3 years of age, toilet trained and able to be separated from parents/guardians for 30 minutes.

This beginning level introduces children to the water and is focused primarily on comfort and play. Students will develop a sense of confidence and independence and be introduced to water safety skills while having fun in the water. There is no advancement from this class until the child turns four. However, swimmers are welcome to take the class more than once.

The following skills will be developed in Splash!

Put face in water and blow bubbles
Safely enter/exit the pool using the ladder (unsupported)
Jump in to water (with instructor)
Flutter kick on front – with or without kickboard or barbell
Flutter kick on back
Instructor supported front float
Instructor supported back float

Pre-requisite: Children must be able to pay attention for 30 min. at a time.

Swimmers will learn a correct body position for efficient swimming and focus on skills to increase water safety.

Successful completion of Level I requires:

Put face in water and blow bubbles
Fully submerge head
Bobbing under water 5 times
Safely enter/exit the pool independently
Jump into water (with or without instructor)
Flutter kick on front
Flutter kick on back
Instructor supported front float (hold for 10 sec)
Instructor supported back float (hold for 10 sec)

Pre-requisite: Level I Skills

By Level II, students should feel completely comfortable in the water and begin to show signs that they are ready to swim on their own (unsupported).

Successful completion of Level II requires:

Unsupported front float (10 sec)
Unsupported back float (10 sec)
Front & back push-offs from wall
Treading water
Retrieve object from bottom of pool
Kicking on back while sculling with arms
Jumping in to deep water and fully submerging
Kicking with kickboard or barbell with face in water and side breathing
Flutter kicking with board and in streamline position
Kicking on stomach and rolling onto back to breathe
10 yds kicking on back arms at side or overhead
Jump in to deep water, kick on back over to side of pool and exit safely

Level 3-Yellow

Class Duration: 30 Min.

Pre-requisite: Level II Skills

Level III introduces students to the freestyle which is the fundamental stroke in swimming. Many students will repeat Level III in order to learn proper freestyle technique (arms, kicking & breathing). Students will also be introduced to diving.

Successful completion of Level III requires:

25 yds. freestyle with proper side breathing
10 yds. backstroke
10 yds. underwater swimming
30 seconds treading water
Kneeling dive in to pool

Level 4-Green

Class Duration: 40 Min.

Pre-requisite: Level III Skills

Level IV is a lesson building off of the freestyle and backstroke skills learned in level three. Students increase endurance and begin to learn breaststroke and butterfly kicks as well as standing dives and front somersaults in the water.

Successful completion of Level IV requires:

25 yds. freestyle
25 yds. backstroke
10 yds. breastroke kick
Dolphin kick on front with arms at sides
Front somersault exhaling through nose
1 minute treading water
Standing dive into pool
Open turn front
Open turn back

Level 5-Blue

Class Duration: 1 hr

Pre-requisite: Level IV Skills

The most challenging aspect of Level V is successful coordination of the breaststroke. Like Level III, many students will repeat Level V to learn proper breaststroke technique. Level V also builds on the concept of endurance that is introduced in Level IV.

Successful completion of Level V requires:

50 yds. freestyle
50 yds. backstroke
25 yds. breastroke
10 yds. butterfly (dolphin) kick
2 minutes treading water
Long shallow (racing) dive
Stride entry in to water (lifesaving jump)
Front flip turn

Pre-requisite: Level V Skills

Level VI is a lesson where students will learn the full butterfly stroke and continue to build their endurance. This level completes the teaching of all four competitive strokes and the appropriate starts and turns. Many students who successfully complete Level VI are interested and ready to pursue competitive swimming and should consider our Team program.

Successful completion of Level VI requires:

100 yds. freestyle with flip turns
100 yds. backstroke
50 yds. breaststroke
25 yds. butterfly
back flip turn
breaststroke turn and pull down
backstroke racing start
3 minutes treading water, 1 minute with hands above water

Junior Lifeguarding

Class duration: 1 hr

Requirements: ability to float, tread water, and swim 50 yards without stopping (two laps).

Junior Lifeguardimg is designed for preteens and teens (ages 12-17) who love the water and want to learn more about lifesaving skills, fitness and stroke improvement in a social environment. Participants will learn about the basics of lifeguarding, including: pool scanning, first aid rescue techniques, equipment checks, pool tests.

This is NOT a certification class. However, participants develop skills they will need to become a certified lifeguard. The class is 60 minutes long, with the first 20 minutes taught out of the water.