We work on skills that are appropriate to the child’s developmental stages.

We do not use floaties – at any stage of our learn-to-swim program and we avoid goggles as long as possible. This is because we do not want the kids to develop a false sense of security or rely on these objects – if they fell in accidently, they do not have these objects on ready to go.

We also aim to teach your child to swim with good technique right from the beginning – trying to avoid bad habits that are hard to change as they get older, but this takes time. Setting up the correct technique right from the beginning means that strokes are more efficient, and can be maintained longer in emergency situations. The slower that children learn, the longer they retain the skills gained, and confidence is gradually developed.

Confidence comes from caring teachers, a happy, safe environment, and from learning to balance on the front and back.

Study Results

Griffith Institute for Educational Research recently revealed children who had learned how to swim from a young age reached many developmental milestones earlier than other children of the same age. Some of these milestones include: visual-motor skills such as cutting paper, colouring-in, drawing lines and shapes; mathematical-related tasks; and literacy and numeracy.

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