Preswim Programme Syllabus 3-6 years old
Stage 1
Stage 1
Stage 1
- Water confidence
- Water movement & orientation
- Breath control skills & bubbling
- Partial immersion & submersion
- Assisted entry into water
Stage 2
Stage 1
Stage 1
- Water confidence
- Voluntary immersion
- Assisted gliding in water
- Assisted paddling action
- Floating with assistance
- Assisted entry into water
Stage 3
Stage 1
Stage 3
- Safe entry and exit
- Front and back float for at least 5 seconds
- Push & glide
- Front paddling for 1 meter
- Confidence jump and paddling back to deck safely
Swim Programme SYLLABUS
Stage 1
Stage 1
Stage 1
- Aquatic Awareness & Safety - enter the water safely, how to be safe in deep water, how to move forward and backward in the water, pool rules
- Water Confidence Building – submersion, bubble blowing, star floats, pencil float, back floats, mushroom float
- Flutter Kick
- Push and glide
- Rules of behaviour in, on or near the water
- Water safety knowledge at a swimming pool
Stage 2
Stage 1
Stage 1
- Front Crawl– 25 meters
- Breast stroke wedge kick
- Diving Basics
- Threading water
- Signal distress and call for help
- Back float sculling 30 sec
Stage 3
Stage 1
Stage 3
- Front Crawl – 50 meters continuously with no floatation aid (high elbows)
- Breaststroke – 25 metres
- Survival Backstroke – 25 metres
- Threading water 1 minute • Straddle Jump
- Feet first surface dive
- Dolphin kick
- Swim through hoops, place 2m apart using flutter/dolphin kick
Stage 4
Stage 4
Stage 4
- Front Crawl – 100 meters
- Breaststroke – 50 meters
- Backstroke – 25 meters
- Butterfly – 10 meters
- Survival Backstroke – 50 meters
- Sidestroke – 25 meters
- Breast stroke whip kick
- Head first surface dive
- Underwater breaststoke
- Threading water 2 minutes
- Forward somersault in the water.
Stage 5
Stage 4
Stage 4
- Backwards somersault in the water.
- Front Crawl – 50 meters (1:30 minutes)
- Breaststroke – 50 meters (1:50 minutes)
- Backstroke – 50 meters (1:40 minutes)
- Survival Backstroke – 50 meters
- Sidestroke – 25 meters
- Butterfly – 15 metres
- Flip turn
- Swim underwater for 3m through hoops and resurface
- Heat Escape Lessening Posture (H.E.L.P.) techniqu
- Backwards somersault in the water.
- Front Crawl – 50 meters (1:30 minutes)
- Breaststroke – 50 meters (1:50 minutes)
- Backstroke – 50 meters (1:40 minutes)
- Survival Backstroke – 50 meters
- Sidestroke – 25 meters
- Butterfly – 15 metres
- Flip turn
- Swim underwater for 3m through hoops and resurface
- Heat Escape Lessening Posture (H.E.L.P.) technique
- Throw a flotation aid to a partner 3m away and instruct the partner to kick to the edge
- Retrieve a personal floatation device in water and fit it while treading water
- Learn about rip currents at beach and how you can escape should you find yourself in one
Stage 6
Stage 4
Stage 6
- Front Crawl – 100 meters (3:00 minutes)
- Breaststroke – 100 meters (4:00 minutes)
- Backstroke – 100 meters (3:20 minutes)
- Survival Backstroke – 100 meters
- Sidestroke – 50 meters
- Butterfly – 25 meters
- Scull, float or tread for 5 minutes (incorporated in Survival & Activity Skills)
- Perform ear equalisation
- Swim through hoops on pool bottom for
- Front Crawl – 100 meters (3:00 minutes)
- Breaststroke – 100 meters (4:00 minutes)
- Backstroke – 100 meters (3:20 minutes)
- Survival Backstroke – 100 meters
- Sidestroke – 50 meters
- Butterfly – 25 meters
- Scull, float or tread for 5 minutes (incorporated in Survival & Activity Skills)
- Perform ear equalisation
- Swim through hoops on pool bottom for 5m
- Compact jump
- Making survival float with clothing
- Heat Escape Lessening Posture (H.E.L.P.) technique with the self-made float
- Side stroke tow (non- contact) 10 meters
- Principles of watercraft safety
- Recognising an Emergency
- Principles when performing a rescue