Classes

​Swimming lesson classes are split into 11 levels. Use the filter below to display relevant levels and find out which level is best suited.

YMCA Swimming Lessons

Aqua Babies (FREE)

  • Build you child’s water confidence
  • Teach you how to hold & support your child in the water
  • Bond and engage with your child
  • Develop your child’s coordination, muscle strength and motor skills
  • Develop fundamental movement skills
  • Stimulate the senses to create new learning

*See Aqua Babies page for details and enrolment.

Age Range
3 - 5 months
Class Size
Up to 8

Starfish.

Starfish.
  • Parent in water with child
  • Introduction to submersion activities
  • Reaching & grasping for safety
  • Buoyancy & floatation activities
  • Blowing bubbles on surface
  • Socialising with group activities
Age Range
6 months - 1 year
Class Size
Up to 8

Periwinkle

Periwinkle
  • Parent in water with child
  • Aided movement in water
  • Aided jump and return to edge
  • Supported front and back float
  • Safe entry on request
  • Blow bubbles with face in the water
  • Reaching and grasping for safety
Age Range
1 - 2 years
Class Size
Up to 8

Minnow

Minnow
  • Parent in water with child
  • Independently jump and return to edge
  • Paddle and kick
  • Kicking on front and back
  • Reaching and grasping for safety
  • Independent submersion with bubbles
  • Unaided floating
Age Range
2+ years
Class Size
Up to 8

Tadpole

Tadpole
  • Push and glide with bubbles
  • Independent submersion with bubble blowing
  • Front and back float and recovery with minimal assistance
  • Aided jump entry and return to edge
  • Extended arm paddle
  • Aided kick on front and back
  • Aided treading water
  • Torpedo 3 metres
Age Range
3+ years
Class Size
Up to 4

Goldfish

Goldfish
  • Jump entry & return to edge
  • Independent Star float on Front and back with recovery
  • Independent Kick on back
  • Introduction to freestyle arms
  • Recover an object from chest depth water
  • Treading water
Age Range
3+ years
Class Size
Up to 4

Octopus

Octopus
  • Independent front float and back float with recovery
  • Push & glide
  • Jump entry & return to edge
  • Torpedo for 5 metres
  • Paddle & kick for 5 metres
  • Introduction to Freestyle arm action
  • Kicking on back unaided for 5 metres
  • Treading water
Age Range
5+ years
Class Size
Up to 4

Sardine

Sardine
  • Jump entry into deep water & recover
  • Freestyle with side breathing for 8 metres
  • Backstroke for 8 metres
  • Duck Dive & Recover an object from chest depth water
  • Float, scull & tread water for 30 seconds & signal for help
Age Range
5+ years
Class Size
Up to 5

Salmon

Salmon
  • Step in entry & recover
  • Kneeling Dive
  • Freestyle and Backstroke for 12 metres
  • Breaststroke kick with an aid for 5 metres
  • Duck dive, swim for 3 metres under water & recover an object
  • Float, scull & tread water for 1 minute & signal for help 
  • Head first sculling
Age Range
5+ years
Class Size
Up to 5

Tuna

Tuna
  • Stride in entry
  • Freestyle 25 metres
  • backstroke 25 metres
  • Survival backstroke 25 metre
  • Breaststroke kick with breathing for 12 metres
  • Introductory dolphin kick
  • forwards somersault
  • With clothes, float, scull & tread water for 1 minute then remove clothes
Age Range
5+ years
Class Size
Up to 6

Dolphin

Dolphin
  • Shallow dive
  • Freestyle 50 metres
  • Backstroke 50 metres
  • Breaststroke and Survival backstroke for 25 metres
  • Introductory butterfly arms
  • Dolphin kick for 12 metres
  • Perform a tumble turn
  • Accidental fall in demonstrating self-preservation for 25 metres
  • With clothes, float, scull & tread water for 2 minutes then remove clothes
Age Range
5+ years
Class Size
Up to 7

Shark

Shark
  • Feet first surface dive
  • Freestyle 100 metres
  • Backstroke 100 metres
  • Breaststroke and Survival backstroke for 50 metres
  • Sidestroke for 25 metres
  • Butterfly for 15 metres
  • Using a combination of strokes perform a 400 metre swim
  • Clothed swim, flat, scull and tread water for five minutes, remove clothes and swim for five minutes
Age Range
5+ years
Class Size
Up to 8