Offering American Red Cross Swim Lessons

Developed for children 3 to 5 years of age, American Red Cross Parent and Child Aquatics is designed to give young 

children a positive, developmentally appropriate aquatic learning experience while building basic skills to begin 

learning rudimentary propulsive swimming movements. 

• Preschool Aquatics Level 1: Purpose: The objectives of level 1 are to learn the most elementary aquatic skills, which children continue to build on as they progress through the Preschool Aquatics and Learn-to-Swim levels. At this first level, children start developing good attitudes and safe practice around the water.             
• Preschool Aquatics Level 2: Purpose: The objectives of this level are to build on the basic aquatic skills learned in Level 1 and give children further success with fundamental aquatic skills performed to a slightly more advanced degree than at Level 1. Most skills in this level are performed with assistance. This level marks the beginning of independent aquatic locomotion skills. Children continue to explore using simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back to gain more proficiency for future strokes. Level 2 also adds to the self-help and basic rescue skills introduced in Level 1. 
• Preschool Aquatics Level 3: Purpose: The objectives of this level are to coordinate arm and leg movements and improve upon skills learned in Preschool Levels 1 and 2. Most skills in this level are performed with assistance. This level builds on previous knowledge of arm and leg motions, and help students put the stroke together as a whole. In this level students begin to work on swimming more independently with less support than in Preschool Level 2. 

Red Cross Adult Swim allows swimmers to progress at their own pace, mastering one set of skills before moving on to the next. Swim lessons for adults are available in the following three levels, developed to meet the needs of adult learners:

•  Learning the Basics: Earn basic swimming strokes and skills needed to become water competent, which is a combination of knowing water safety, having swimming skills and knowing how to help others in a water emergency.
•  Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes: Participants will gain proficiency in basic aquatic skills and the six basic swimming strokes.
• Swimming for Fitness: Participants will learn to refine their front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke and turns to build endurance.

We provide private swim lessons at our facility or at your preferred location, subject to approval. Private swim lessons offer customized, one-on-one instruction tailored to individual skill levels, ranging from beginners to advanced, and catering to ages six months to adults.