Kids Playing at Mount Vernon Country Club Swimming Pool Complex

Description of Courses

Parent and Child Aquatics
This course helps children become comfortable in and around the water so they are ready to learn to swim. Parent and Child Aquatics gives parents information and techniques to help orient their young children to the water and to supervise water activities in a safe manner.

Squid
This course follows the same guidelines as Level 1 but is designed for preschool age children.

Sunfish
This course follows the same guidelines as Level 2 but is designed for preschool age children.

Shark
This course follows the same guidelines as Level 3 but is designed for preschool age children

Level 1 - Introduction to Water Skills
There are no prerequisites for this course. The objective of Level 1 is to help students feel comfortable in the water and to enjoy the water safely. In Level 1, elementary aquatic skills are taught, which students build on as they progress through the six Learn-to-Swim levels.

Level 2 - Fundamental Aquatic Skills
Students entering this course must be able to demonstrate all the completion requirements in Level 1. The objective of Level 2 is to give students success with fundamental skills. Students learn to float without support and to recover to a vertical position. This level marks the beginning of true locomotion skills. Students explore simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back to lay the foundation for future strokes.

Mount Vernon Country Club Swimming Pool Complex

Level 3 - Stroke Development
Students entering this course must be able to demonstrate all the completion requirements in Level 2. The objective of Level 3 is to build on the skills in Level 2 by providing additional guided practice. Students are taught to coordinate the front crawl and back crawl. Elements of the butterfly and the fundamentals of treading water are introduced. Students also begin to learn to enter the water headfirst from the side of the pool.

Level 4 - Stroke Improvement
Students entering this course must be able to demonstrate all the completion requirements in Level 3. The objective of Level 4 is to develop confidence in the strokes learned thus far and to improve other aquatic skills. Students improve their skills and increase their endurance by swimming familiar strokes for greater distances. Students continue to build on the butterfly and introduce the elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and elements of the sidestroke. Basics of turning at a wall are also introduced.

Level 5 - Stroke Refinement
Students entering this course must be able to demonstrate all the course requirements in Level 4. The objective of Level 5 is coordination and refinement of strokes. Participants refine their performance of all the strokes and increase their distances. Flip turns on the front and back are also introduced.

Level 6 - Swimming and Skill Proficiency
Students entering this course must be able to demonstrate all skills required to complete Level 5. The objective of Level 6 is to refine strokes so students swim them with more ease, efficiency, power, and smoothness over greater distances. Other aquatic activities are also introduced. Level 6 is designed with "menu" options.