Our learn to swim program is the perfect place for a child to become water-safe and have confidence swimming on their own in any depth pool. Classes are taught with the instructor in the water for 30 minutes. It is a 3:1 student/teacher ratio starting with children at the age of 2. Our method incorporates a flotation device and teaches children to be water safe with their head above the water first. As a child progresses they move from a vertical position of running in the water and balancing on their own to going on their stomachs and pieces of the flotation are removed as they progress. Children learn to swim from point A to B, tread water, dive, jump and have total confidence in the pool. A child is deemed water safe once they can jump in the pool, tread for 10 seconds and swim back to the wall with no physical assistance from the instructor. After a child passes a water safety test, they will be taught to swim freestyle, backstroke and butterfly with the instructor in the water. Once they have learned these strokes and mastered control of the kick board and side breathing on their own they are ready to move up to the Sideways group in our Beginner Novice Program.