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Our First Strokes swimmers have developed their confidence in the water and their awesome swimming kick. These lessons are all about putting the swimming strokes together.
Swimmers at this level have developed the muscles they need to go further with their faces in the water, fast legs, and a stroke that makes them independent swimmers.
Our First Strokes progressive lessons teach our swimmers front crawl and backstroke, as well as starting them on the right path to forming a pretty good breaststroke and butterfly. We’ll also make sure you earn your first Water Safety Level 1 Badge.
We encourage our swimmers to step up their water confidence and have fun with handstands, collecting sinkers, treading water, jumps and dives.
The skills we cover at this level are:
First Strokes 1
The badge awards are:
• Water skill 1
• Stage 1
• 5m.
First Strokes 2
The badge awards are:
• Stage 2
• 10m
First Strokes 3
The badge awards are:
• Stage 3
• 20m
•Water Safety 1
Listen out for our few favorite words to help our younger First Strokes swimmers along – torpedo, superman and high elbows.
As well as earning badges along their swimming journey, our swimmers will also achieve a First Strokes High Five certificate on completing First Strokes 3.
