This course is aimed at children from 5 years, The group size is 6-7 participants and 1 swimming instructor.

Aims

• Fun and games in and out of the water.
• Diving exercises in shallow water.
• Learning the leg movement. We start with breastroke leg movement as the first swimming style.
• We show how to jumping into the water.
• Introduce to the arm movements and help with the coordination of arms and legs.
• Continuous practice of arm-leg movement until free swimming.
• Promotion of a healthy, motor development of children.

Requirements for a course participation

• The children must be 5 years old at least 90cm tall, as they can not stand in the non-swimmer area otherwise.
• The children should already be familiar to water. Showering and washing the hair with water on head and face is possible.
• Splashes and water on the face are not a problem.
• The course participation takes place without parents, the children are handed over to the swimming instructors.
• The child stays with the swimming instructors for 45 minutes without parents and is able to go to the toilet by himself.

Requirements for the Seahorse Badge

1. Jump from the edge of the pool
2. 25m swimming without aids with visible exhalation
3. Retrieving an object from shoulder-deep water by hand