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Crusaders Learn To Swim Programme |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 |
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Crusaders Learn to Swim Programme At Crusaders we run three very popular and successful Learn to Swim sessions, which all take place in the small pool at Tiddenfoot Leisure Centre on either Saturdays or Sundays.
| Day | Saturday | Sunday | Sunday | | Time | 7.30am-8.00am 8.00am-8.30am | 8.00am-8.30am 8.30am-9.00am | 5.00pm-5.30pm 5.30pm-6.00pm | | Session Manager | Alison Sedgwick | Helen Pickering | Karen Boud | Our Learn to Swim programme follows the National Plan for Teaching Swimming (NTP) and incorporates the STA Award Scheme. This is a structured and progressive scheme based around the International Swimming and Water Safety Standards. We teach all of the four main swimming strokes as well as developing key skills and improving water confidence. We aim to offer all children the opportunity to learn to swim at their own pace in a happy, friendly environment and to provide a relaxed introduction to competitive swimming for those children who are interested. Children from the age of 5 can join our Learn to Swim programme. Lessons are available for all levels, they include: | Octopus 1 NTP Stage 1 | This class provides an introduction to the water for non-swimmers. The aim is to build water confidence and introduce the basic skills required for swimming. Children learn to swim on their front and back using flotation aids and begin to swim independently. Children must be aged 5 years or over. | | Octopus 2 NTP Stage 1/2 | Children continue to improve their water confidence and develop their ability to move through the water confidently on their own. Children learn to swim 5m on their front and back and are introduced to key skills such as push and glides, floating and sculling. | | Octopus 3 NTP Stage 2/3 | Children learn to swim widths of the pool consistently on their front and back. They continue to improve their sculling and gliding skills and begin to link key skills together. From here, children progress to swimming lengths of the small pool. | | Goldfish 1 NTP Stage 3 | Children continue to improve their strokes beginning to swim lengths of the small pool in front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke. They develop their butterfly leg kick and aquatic skills such as push and glides are developed further. | | Goldfish 2 NTP Stage 3/4 | This is the final stage in our Learn to Swim programme. Children learn to consistently swim lengths of the pool demonstrating a good basic level of competence in front crawl with breathing, back crawl and breaststroke. Key water skills covered include; sculling and floating. | | Children then progress to our Stroke Development Session held at Tiddenfoot on a Sunday morning at 8.15am. There are 4 levels of ability and children swim widths of the main pool for ¾ of an hour. Children continue to develop their technique across all four swimming stokes and to improve their stamina in preparation for the move to a lengths session. Children also begin to learn to dive. | For further information about Crusaders Learn to Swim programme please contact our Learn to Swim Co-ordinator, Alison Sedgwick on 01525 370595. We normally have some spaces available in our classes for children who can already swim. Our Beginners groups are extremely popular; we would advise putting your child’s name on the waiting list as soon as possible to ensure there is a place available when the child reaches the age of 5. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 11 August 2009 )
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