Programs with Mel

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 The focus is on building confidence and independence in the water while learning basic and deep-water safety. Children learn safe entry and exit, forward and backward movement, and essential personal water safety skills.  

Children further develop general swimming skills such as unassisted step entry, sculling, feet-first surface dives, and water safety in different aquatic environments. The goal is to swim 25 metres continuously. 

This stage introduces personal survival principles and basic rescue skills. Children practise sculling, underwater skills, and using a personal flotation device (PFD), with a target of 50 metres continuous swimming. 

The focus shifts to improving stroke techniques and coordinated breathing in deep water while swimming 100 metres. Watercraft safety is introduced, alongside continued development of rescue and personal survival skills. 

 Children are introduced to the fundamentals of diving while further advancing rescue skills and personal survival knowledge. Efficient and consistent stroke techniques are required to successfully complete this stage. 

  At this advanced level, children perform strokes with greater ease, efficiency, strength, and smoothness over 400 metres. Training emphasises lifesaving readiness, rescue skills, standing dives, and advanced personal water safety.