Lesson Level Guide
(Babies & Pre-School)

The Starfish series is designed to introduce babies with an accompanying adult to the water. Water confidence and safety skills are introduced.  

For these lessons your baby must be: 

• Supported by a guardian who can hold and support them in the water 

You will learn about how to enter and exit the water safely with your baby, how to support your baby on their front and back and move freely in the water and introduce washing your baby’s face with the water. 

The Starfish series is designed to introduce babies with an accompanying adult to the water. Water confidence and safety skills are introduced.  

For these lessons your baby must be: 

• Supported by a guardian who can hold and support them in the water

You will learn how to support your baby to roll from front to back, encourage kicking movements and encourage your baby to hold onto poolside.

The Starfish series is designed to introduce babies with an accompanying adult to the water. Water confidence and safety skills are introduced.  

For these lessons your baby must be:

• Supported by a guardian who can hold and support them in the water

You will learn how to support your baby to jump into the water from poolside, swim around the pool with baby on your back and encourage your baby to move freely around the water with minimal support or buoyancy aid.

A child’s first learn to swim experience. For these lessons your child must be: 

• Accompanied in the water by an adult
• New to swimming having had no prior lessons or very few experiences in the water
• Happy to wear swimming aids (armbands/discs)    

Your child will learn about water safety, moving in water unassisted, pushing and gliding, blowing bubbles, using pool aids, rolling from front to back, floating, submerging their face in the water and jumping into the pool safely.