SWIMMING LESSONS
With a focus on keeping kids safe in and around water, Y swim lessons go beyond just teaching techniques and skills – we’re committed to nurturing swimming skills and developing confidence in all our students. With small class sizes and experienced instructors, your child will receive personalized attention and guidance as they learn and grow.
Whether your child is just starting out or looking to improve their skills, our swim lessons offer a supportive and encouraging environment for them to succeed.
Visit the OPY Website for more information and a schedule of swim lessons.
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Swim Starters - Ages 6 months - 3 years
Introduces infants and toddlers to the aquatic environment. Children will explore body positions, blowing bubbles, and fundamental safety and aquatic skills. Accompanied by a parent in the water, infants and toddlers learn to be comfortable in experiences, while parents learn about water safety, drowning prevention, and the importance of supervision.
Swim Basics - Ages 3 - 5 years
Increases comfort with underwater exploration and introduce basic self-rescue skills performed with assistance, and eventually self-rescue skills independently. Children learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning two benchmark skills.
Swim Advanced - Ability Based
Develops intermediate self-rescue skills performed at longer distances than in previous stages. Introduces basic stroke technique in front crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke.
Swim Strokes - Ability Based
Introduces breaststroke and butterfly and reinforces water safety through treading water and side stroke. Refines stroke technique on all major competitive strokes and encourages swimming as a part of a healthy lifestyle. Having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke techniques, developing skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social, emotional, and cognitive wellbeing and foster a lifetime of physical activity.
