Swimming Lessons
York Swimming Lessons and Learn To Swim Scheme
We provide a high standard of swimming lessons in a safe environment for children from 4 years of age. We have 15 qualifed swimming teachers with over 80 years of swimming teaching experience between them.
Once your child has acquired the necessary skills and standard of attainment described below, they are awarded the appropriate colored certificate and are moved to the next level. We also encourage swimmers to attain Distance and Skills Badges.
White Hats - Learn To Swim
Standards of attainment:-
- Enter the water confidently and unaided using a swivel entry
- Swim 5m with float on front unaided
- Swim 5m with float on back unaided
- Swim 5m on front unaided
- Swim 5m on back unaided
These skills correspond to the FUNdementals outlined by ASA Levels 1.
Purple Hats - Learn To Swim
The purple certificate can be awarded, once the following has been achieved:-
- Enter the water confidently and unaided using a jump entry (Min. depth 0.9m)
- Put face in water and blow bubbles
- Swim 10m with and without float on front unaided
- Swim 10m with and without float on back unaided
- Swim 5m on front unaided basic breastroke
- Swim 5m on back unaided basic backstroke
- Swim 5m on front unaided basic frontcrawl
- Push & Glide off the wall on front and back
Yellow Hats - Improvers
The yellow certificate can be awarded, once the following has been achieved:-
- Jump into the water without support (Min. depth 0.9m).
- Introduce sitting dive.
- Streamlining off the wall on front and back.
- Introduve treading water.
- Recover sinkable object from bottom of pool.
- Introduce undulation for butterfly.
- Swim 25m on back in recognizable backstroke
- Swim 25m on front in recognized frontcrawl.
- Swim 50m choice of recognized stroke.
Lime Green Hat Swimming Lessons
Standards of attainment:
- Introduce crouching/standing dive with 5m sub-aqua streamlining
- Undulation over 10m
- Introduce to fly arms
- Introduce starts and turns, on front
- 5m sculling on back
- Tread water for 1 min.
- Swim 10m butterfly
- Swim 50m backstroke
- Swim 50m breastroke
- Swim 50m front crawl
These skills correspond to the deep water improvers ASA Levels 7 and work towards teaching all four strokes.
Green Hat Swimming Lessons
The green certificate can be awarded once the following has been achieved:-
- Crouching/standing dive with 5m sub-aqua streamlining
- Undulation over 25m Introduce starts and turns, on front and back
- 10m sculling on back
- Tread water for 3 min.
- Swim 25m butterfly
- Swim 100m backstroke
- Swim 100m breastroke
- Swim 100m front crawl
These skills correspond to the deep water improvers ASA Levels 7 and 8 and work towards teaching all four strokes with a focus on butterfy and diving.
Blue Hat Swimming Lessons
The blue certificate can be awarded, once the following has been achieved:-
- Standing dive / dive from racing blocks.
- 7.5m sub-aqua streamlining.
- Scull 10m head first.
- Scull 10m feet first.
- Bilateral breathing.
- Basic starts, turns and finishes in all four strokes.
- Swim 25m butterfly but attempt @ 50m.
- Swim 200m efficient breastroke.
- Swim 200m efficient backstroke.
- Swim 200m efficient frontcrawl.
Red Hat Swimming Lessons
The red certificate can be awarded, once the following has been achieved:-
- Dive, streamline and sub-aqua (ideally off the blocks).
- Legal ASA starts, turns and finishes in all four strokes.
- 10m sub-aqua streamlining on front.
- 10m sub-aqua streamlining on back.
- Swim 4 x 1 50m of any stroke showing correct use of pace clock for start time and rest periods..
- Swim 50m butterfly but attempt @ 100m.
- Swim 200m effective breastroke in 5.5 mins.
- Swim 200m effective backstroke in 5.0 mins.
- Swim 200m effective frontcrawl in 4.5 mins
- Swim 200m individual Medley.