Ace school age lessons - for children aged 5+
Lessons structured for success in the water
Our school age swim programme takes swimmers from building water confidence, to mastering all four strokes as well as survival skills, equipping them with the skills to join a swim club or enjoy a lifetime of confident swimming. Thanks to the size and layout of our pool, instructors can concentrate on developing strong technique and providing regular, personalised feedback. Contributing to the success of school age classes is the separation with a lane rope, allowing each group to focus without distraction.
Ace school age levels
L1 - Snappy Swordfish
These lessons are for beginners and focus on enjoying the water and building under water confidence. On the water propulsion and water safety skills are introduced.
L2 - Streamline Snapper
These lessons focus on the key swimming skills of gliding, kicking and body position with the aim of developing an independent back kick to keep our swimmers safe in the water.
L3 - Radiant Rainbowfish
These lessons develop Backstroke arms which are combined with the Back kick. Freestyle swimming skills also continue to be developed in preparation for breathing in the next level.
L4 - Zipping Zebrafish
These lessons focus on Freestyle breathing. Backstroke also continues to be developed.
L5 - Bubbling Boxfish
These lessons focus on Breaststroke and continue to develop Freestyle and Backstroke.
L6 - Awesome Alligators
These lessons refine Freestyle arm technique and continue to develop Breaststroke. Butterfly skills and Tumble turns are also introduced.
L7 - Sonic Sharks
These lessons refine Breaststroke technique and develop a relaxed and fluent Freestyle and Backstroke. Butterfly is developed at this level.
JE1 - Diving Dolphins
Classes are structured to refine technique in all four strokes aiming for fluent Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly. These lessons start to focus on increasing Freestyle and Backstroke endurance swims to 100m as the finer aspects of these strokes are developed. Breaststroke should now be together with a good glide, small arms and kick snap. Butterfly breathing is developed and tumble turns are expected during endurance swims of up to 100m.
JE2 - Wicked Whales
All strokes are refined to a club level using specialised drills. Swimmers aim to complete a solid medley of Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly with tumble turns. Endurance swims of 200m are incorporated into all lessons to enable swimmers to competently achieve the ultimate Swim for Life goal of 200m Freestyle.
Pricing and enrolment
School age swim lessons are $22 per 30-minute lesson, held once a week during the school term. With most terms running for around 10 weeks, the cost is approximately $220 per term. To ensure a safe, personal and enjoyable experience for school age swimmers, class sizes are kept small with a maximum of four children per class and a maximum of two classes running at once.
Classes are scheduled at various times after 3pm, Monday through to Sunday and are broken into levels determined by ability and age.
Moving on from school age lessons - what’s next?
After mastering the strokes and completing the Ace programme, some swimmers transition to club swimming and others naturally move along equipped with the skills they’ve gained. With the size of the Ace pool, some swimmers may need to transition to club sooner, depending on growth.
Find the right class for your child
Compare your child’s skills with Ace’s class levels using our class estimate assessment. Please use this as a guide and get in touch with our team to confirm a class level and time.
P. 07 854 9668
E. info@acelearntoswim.co.nz
36 Casey Ave, Hamilton
Teaching Hamilton to swim
and survive since 1972
