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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 in Levels 1 through 6 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 and safety in the pool.

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

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 25 minutes.

This beginning level introduces children to the water. 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)
Straight leg flutter kick on front – with or without kickboard, barbell, or noodle
Straight leg flutter kick on back
Instructor supported front float
Instructor supported back float
Streamline arm positioning

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

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

Successful completion of Level 1 requires:

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

Pre-requisite: Level 1 Skills

By Level 2, 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 2 requires:

Unsupported front float with correct body position (10 sec)
Unsupported back float with correct body position (10 sec)
Front & back streamline push-offs from wall
Foundations of treading water
Retrieve object from bottom of pool
Kicking on back while sculling with arms
Jumping in to deep water and fully submerging
Kicking 25 yds with kickboard or barbell with face in water and rhythmic bilateral side breathing
Flutter kicking with board or barbell while in streamline position
Kicking on stomach, rolling onto back to breathe, and then rolling back to the stomach
Jump in to deep water, kick on back over to side of pool with a horizontal posture and exit safely

Level 3-Yellow

Class Duration: 30 Min.

Pre-requisite: Level 2 Skills

Level 3 introduces students to the freestyle, 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 backstroke, underwater swimming, and kneeling dives.

Successful completion of Level 3 requires:

25 yds. freestyle with proper body position, kicking and side breathing
10 yds. backstroke with proper body position and kicking
10 yds. underwater swimming
30 seconds treading water
Underwater handstand
Kneeling dive in to pool

Level 4-Green

Class Duration: 40 Min.

Pre-requisite: Level 3 Skills

Level 4 builds on 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 4 requires:

25 yds. freestyle with proper body position, breathing and six-beat kick
25 yds. backstroke with proper body position and kick
25 yds. breaststroke whip kick
Dolphin kick on front with arms at sides
Front somersault exhaling through nose
1 minute treading water
Standing dive into pool
Freestyle open turn
Backstroke open turn

Level 5-Blue

Class Duration: 1 hr

Pre-requisite:Consistent Demonstration of Level 4 Skills

Level 5 is one hour in length. Level 5 includes the successful coordination of the breaststroke & mastery of the flip turn. Like Level 3, many swimmers will repeat Level 5 to learn proper breaststroke technique. Level 5 continues to build on endurance, racing starts and open turns as introduced in Level 4. Swimmers who have completed one session of Level 5 may be invited to join the Sea Dragon Swim Team.

Successful completion of Level 5 requires:

50 yds freestyle with 6 beat kick and a flip turn
50 yds backstroke with steady kick and streamlined underwater dolphin kick
25 yds breaststroke with proper head position and timing (no pause under chest)
Backstroke to Breaststroke and Breaststroke open turns 25 yds butterfly (dolphin) kick on stomach and back
Racing start from the block
Freestyle flip turn
Stride entry in to water (lifesaving jump)
2 minutes treading water

Pre-requisite: Consistent demonstration of Level 5 skills and recommendation of instructor.

Level 6 is one hour in length. Level 6 includes the successful coordination of the butterfly and a continued mastery of the three other strokes. Level 6 puts a larger focus on endurance as well as introducing the more detailed points of swimming. These include backstroke flip turns, breaststroke pull outs and backstroke racing starts. Swimmers in Level 6 may be invited to join the Sea Dragon Swim Team.

Successful completion of Level 6 requires:

100 yards freestyle (proper catch position, pull pattern, rotation and flip turns)
100 yards backstroke (proper start, pull pattern and rotation)
50 yards breaststroke (proper turns, underwater pull outs and body motion)
25 yards butterfly (proper timing, breath pattern)
Backstroke flip turn (underwater shooter, proper breakout)
Butterfly open turn
100 yards individual medley (25 fly, 25 back, 25 breast, 25 free, with proper touches and turns) 3 minutes treading water with an eggbeater kick (1 minute with hand above water)