Your Child Has Been Learning to Swim at School... What's Next?
School swimming gives children valuable water safety experience and introduces important swimming skills.
But because school programs are short and only run for two weeks each year, children need ongoing lessons to continue improving their confidence, technique and safety in the water.
Did you know?
- School swimming is short-term
- Most school programs only run for two weeks per year and are only offered to students from Pre-Primary to Year 6.
- Swimming skills improve through regular practice
- Weekly lessons help children build strength, confidence and correct technique.
- Water safety is a lifelong skill
- Confidence in and around water develops over years, not weeks.
Australia's National Swimming and Water Safety Benchmarks
Every Australian at the age of 12 years should be able to do:
✔Understand and respect safety rules for a range of aquatic environments
✔Enter and exit the water for a range of environments
✔Float, scull or tread water for 2 minutes and signal for help
✔ Swim continuously for 50 metres
✔Surface dive, swim underwater and search to recover an object from deep water
✔Respond to an emergency and perform a primary assessment
✔Rescue a person using a non-swimming rescue technique with non-rigid aids
✔Perform a survival sequence wearing light clothing
✔ Demonstrate survival and floating skills
✔ Confidently tread water
✔ Understand water safety and rescue awareness
50% of all Australians at the age of 17 years should be able to:
✔Understand behaviours that affect personal safety in aquatic environments and activities
✔Assist others to exit deep water using bystanders
✔Float, scull or tread water for 5 minutes and signal for help
✔Swim continuously for 400 metres
✔Search in a deep water environment and recover a person
✔Respond to an emergency and provide first aid
✔Rescue an unconscious person in deep water
✔Perform a survival sequence wearing heavy clothing
Every child progresses differently. Regular swimming lessons give them the best opportunity to achieve these important life skills.
Practice Makes Progress!
Learn2Swim students receive FREE entry to our Leisure and Lap Pools on non-lesson days during their enrolment term.
Perfect for practising the skills they learn each week.
Children under 5
FREE child entry + 1 FREE parent entry
Children 5+
FREE child entry (valid during active enrolment term.)
Keep the Progress Going!
Continue building:
✔ Confidence
✔ Water Safety
✔ Stroke Technique
✔ Fitness
✔ Lifelong Swimming Skills
Enrol online here