Babies/Toddlers (Ages – 6 months to 3 years old)

Baby 6 - 12 months

Class Level: For Babies under 1 year old.
Aim of Class: To learn to hold their breath and submerge in response to a cue, to float unaided for 2 seconds, to do an underwater turn to parent/side and to do a basic sitting dive.

Toddler Beginner  1-2 years old and 2-3 years old

Class Level: For Toddlers aged 1-2 who are not submerging or free floating or need to develop better breath control.
Aim of Class: To learn to hold their breath and submerge, to initiate the submersion independently, to float unaided for 2 seconds, to do an underwater turn to parent/side and to do a basic sitting dive.

Toddler Intermediate- 1-2 years old and 2-3 years old

Class Level: For toddlers aged 1-2who can initiate submersion with good breath control and float unaided for at least 2 seconds and do an underwater turn to parent/side.
Aim of Class: To free float for 4 seconds, to ‘drop’, turn and return to parent or side, to swim and uturn to parent or side, to dive down to pick up an object, kick to surface and return to side or parent, to dive in and swim back to side unaided.

Toddler Advanced 2-3 years old

Class Level: For toddlers aged 2-3 who can free float for 4 seconds or more, can do all the Intermediate activities unaided.
Aim of Class: To learn to swim to the side after being dropped in from side of pool, to develop safety awareness and practices, to learn to ‘pop up breathe’ and/or roll on to back to breathe, to do starfish floats front and back and to learn basic breaststroke.