Swimming Academy

Total Fitness Swimming Academy

Learning to swim is an essential life skill and one of the best gifts we can give our children. Total Fitness Swimming Academy offers a fully comprehensive and progressive programme of swimming lessons for all our junior members.

Children's Swimming Lessons

We will teach your child a wide range of skills which results in a competent, confident and safe swimmer who will have a love of swimming and a skill base to develop further techniques in a wide range of water-based sports.
The Total Fitness Swimming Academy is delivered by professional, highly trained, motivated teachers who are passionate about teaching swimming.

All our children's swimming lessons are safe, fun, progressive and comprehensive. All swimmers are given a swimming lesson Progress Card which allows parents/guardians to continually monitor their child's progress and keep in touch with what is being delivered during a lesson.

All swimmers are continuously assessed and badges are awarded when achieved.

Learn to Swim Programme

Swimasong

Swimming lessons specially for 0-3 years. A fun, innovative and effective programme for introducing adults with babies or very young children to the exciting world of aquatics. It incorporates water safety, free movement, structured play, exercise to music, and guidance in physical and educational development.

Dolphin

Dolphin is the first level of our ‘learn to swim' programme. We will concentrate on water confidence and installing a love of the water through games and play whilst teaching the foundations of swimming without our swimmers knowing it! By the end of this level swimmers will be confident in the water, able to propel themselves in a variety of directions and jump in.

Shark

The second level of our learn to swim programme is Shark.

Within this level a great range of equipment will be used to provide interactive, fun and enjoyable lessons for our swimmers. By the end of this stage swimmers will be able to swim 7 metres unaided on their front and back.

Improver Programme

Goldfish TF1

The first level of our Improver programme is Goldfish.

The time spent on water confidence and gaining a love of being in the water really comes into its own now. The building blocks to swimming all four competitive strokes begin in this level. By the end of this level, our swimmers will be able to swim 10m confidently, demonstrate an understanding of all four strokes and perform a range of skills from push and glides, sculling, treading water and picking objects up from the pool floor.

Starfish TF2

The second level of our Improver programme is Starfish.

Starfish level will see our swimmers perform three competitive strokes, breaststroke, backstroke and front crawl over at least 10m. They will be able to perform 10m of basic butterfly leg kick and complete a length of sculling. This level also progresses the already learnt skills needed for learning to dive. Swimmers completing this level will now move onto swimming lengths.

Seahorse TF3

The third level of our Improver programme is Seahorse.

Our swimmers of this level will be swimming lengths, we are now honing in on the basic strokes already learnt and turning them into efficient strokes. Once this level is completed you will see a swimmer who can effortlessly swim 25m plus in all three competitive strokes and 25m butterfly leg kick with undulation. Water safety although taught in all levels is brought to the fore now with a focus on open water safety skills. Forward and backward rolls are a great fun element within this level, the beginnings of learning starts and turns.

Advanced Programme

Octopus TF4

Octopus Level - Swimmers must now perform all their strokes to the ASA Laws. Within this level swimmers will be taught to swim quickly, efficiently and effectively with these laws in mind. Mini polo skills, synchronised swimming skills and obstacle courses are all taught within this level. By the end of this level we will have a swimmer who's swimming will be not only confident enough but also strong enough to take part in many water based sports. You will see the difference in your child during this level as their water fitness really starts to improve.

Whale TF5

Whale level sees the introduction to competitive swimming. We begin to teach our swimmers about timed swims, the pace clock and how to efficiently link one stroke to another through use of turns at the pool wall.

The skills we ask them to perform are increasingly difficult and stretch their swimming ability whilst at the same time further increasing their confidence and improving their performance. Fitness is an essential part of this level and swimmers will find their stamina tested, but will have a great sense of achievement after every lesson.

Killer Whale TF6

Killer Whale - This is our last level, by the end of this level we will have a record of timed swims in all four strokes. Distance swims are done within this level as are, medley swims, swimming drills and swimming exercises. A swimmer who finishes the Total Fitness Swimming Academy will have a life skill that will enable them to take part in any water based activity, from swimming for fitness to swimming with dolphins, canoeing, white water rafting or snorkelling at the great barrier reef. All these things are possible with the skills and confidence they have gained.

 

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