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Swim School Awards
Many families come to us from having previous swimming experience with the Red Cross program, which is primarily a water safety program. At the Finan Swim School our focus is directed towards having the children working in the water on their swimming skills for the entire lesson. We find that our intense focus on swimming skills has our students "learning to swim in less time".

Below is a list of all the levels Finan Swim School teaches.

  TINY TOT #1
 
  • Submersion assisted
  • Floats assisted
  • Mouth in bubbles
  • Splash & kicks


 
  TINY TOT #2
 
  • Jump in assisted
  • Underwater swim assisted
  • Face in on own
  • Paddle hands
  • Kick on back
  • Back & front floats assisted
 
  Learn to Swim #1
 
  • Face in bubbles
  • Floats on own (back/front)
  • Surface survival 5 seconds


 
  Learn to Swim #2
 
  • Swim 3m front & back lifts head for breath
  • Jump in on own
  • Front & back floats on own
  • Surface survival 15 seconds
 
  Level #1
 
  • Swim 5m on front & back begins to turn head for breath (arms in okay)
  • Surface survival 30 sec.
  • Introduce side breathing

 
  Level #2
 
  • Swim 7m front & back improved arms
  • Turns head for breath on front
  • Introduce shallow front dive
  • Surface survival 60 seconds
 
  Level #3
 
  • Swim 20m front & back crawl both with arms out, body position almost flat
  • Tread water 30 seconds
  • Shallow front dive
 
  Level #4
 
  • 50m front crawl with good head turn
  • 50m back crawl with level body position
  • Introduce whip kick
 
  Level #5
 
  • 75m front & back crawl with good stroke & breathing
  • Tread water 1 minute
  • Introduce breast stroke

 
  Level #6
 
  • 75m front & back crawl
  • 50m breast stroke with arm & leg action
  • Two lengths Elementary back
 
  Level #7
 
  • 200m endurance swim
  • 100m each of front & back crawl, & breast stroke.
  • Introduce butterfly.
  • Shallow dive & swim

 
  Level #8
 
  • 300m endurance swim
  • 150m each of front & back breast & side stroke(near perfect form)
  • 25m butterfly
  • Stride jump entry
 
  Level #9 & #10
 
  • 400m endurance swim
  • 200m each of front & back crawl, side & breast stroke,& Elementary back
  • 25m butterfly
  • Stride jump & head-up swim
  • Drownproof & tread water 5 minutes
 
   
 
  Yellow Badge = Partial completion of the level
  Blue Badge = Near completion of the level
  Red Badge= Full completion of the level
   
   

 
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