Baby & Toddlers Swimming Lessons
Our swimming babies program is for children from 6 months to 3 years old bonding with Mum or Dad in the water. Levels are age and ability based.
We are strong advocates for children to be swimming before they start school and this begins with a dedicated Swimming Babies program. You can expect lots of songs, activities and games to make learn to swim fun for you and your child.
Class Duration : 30 mins
Kids Learn To Swim Lesson
We offer the SwimSafer™ 2.0 programme which aims to teach swimming proficiency and water survival skills to children to minimize drowning incidences in a fun manner.
The six-stage programme includes survival and activity skills taught each stage of the programme, and work progressively towards the next stage.
At the end of each stage, each child will receive a stage completion e-certificate.
The objective is develop confidence and independence in the water, learn general and deep-end water safety. Techniques taught include the forward and backward movement, safe entry and exit and personal water safety.
General skill development including unassisted step entry into water, sculling, feet first surface dives, personal water safety skills as well as water safety in aquatic environments. One of the goals is to achieve 25 metres of continuous swimming.
Entry skills such as the stride jump will be taught. Skills include sculling, underwater skills and putting on a personal flotation device (PFD) whilst in water and swimming with it. One of the goals is to achieve 50 metres of continuous swimming.
Development of student’s stroke techniques is a focus here, along with coordinated breathing in deep water. This stage sees the introduction of throw rescues and more personal survival skills. One of the goals is to achieve 100 metres of a variety of strokes.
Fundamentals of diving will be introduced. Development of personal survival knowledge will continue with a situational context of swimming quickly away from a sinking boat. Students will be required to demonstrate efficient stroke techniques by swimming a variety of strokes over 200 metres within a given time frame.
Students will be required to perform a variety of strokes with efficiency over 400 metres within a given time frame for each stroke. Personal survival skills like making use of clothing to make a personal floatation device and swimming with them, putting on a life jacket in water and demonstrating the Heat Escape Lessening Posture technique will be taught.
The SwimSafer programme is the revised national water safety programme which integrates the National Survival Swimming Award (NASSA) and Learn-To-Swim-programme (LTSP). For Programme details on what would be taught at each stage, click here
Adult Swimming Classes
It’s never too late to start learning to swim! Whatever your needs, YSS will have an adult swimming lessons program for you. For more information about our swimming lessons for adults, find your nearest location or contact us today. YSS also offers adults other ways of remaining fit and enjoying the water in the form of our Aqua Fitness Programs
These adult swimming lessons provide you with the opportunity to learn to swim if you are a complete beginner or have limited swimming experience. It is never too late to learn to swim and our friendly, patient instructors ensure all participants feel safe and welcome so they can fully enjoy the experience of learning to swim as an adult.
These lessons are for adults who know how to swim but would like to improve or refine their strokes. As many swimmers will have learned to swim as children, many adults find they have picked up bad habits over the years or struggle with a stroke they may not have learned the correct technique for originally.
YSS stroke development lessons for adults will address these issues and have you swimming with the correct technique for a more pleasant, efficient swimming experience.
This class is for adult swimmers who know how to swim and want to swim for fun and fitness. Participants will learn to refine their front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke and turns to build endurance.