Swim Lessons
Taught by certified YMCA instructors, our swimming lessons will give you lifelong skills to help you be safe in and around the water. Swim lessons are available for an additional cost. Purchase your lessons with our online portal!
To find your child’s swim lesson report cards please visit the link below:
North Bay – Evaluation (swimgen.net)
Sudbury – Evaluation (swimgen.net)
Our swim lessons include:
Parent and Tot 1/Splasher: Caregiver assists child to develop comfort in the water and promotes water fun through songs and games. Instruction covers skills such as splashing with arms and legs and pool area orientation
Parent and Tot 2/Bubbler: Caregiver assists child to develop comfort in the water and promotes water fun through songs and games. Instruction covers skills such as holding on to the wall, kicking their feet, assisted front/back floats, and practicing safe swimming.
Bobber: Child gains comfort in the water without a caregiver. Instruction covers skills such as entering and exiting the pool, blowing bubbles, progression for submersion, assisted front and back floats, glides, and safety.
Floater: Child learns pool rules and is comfortable entering
and exiting the pool on their own. Instruction covers skills such as swimming 10m, wearing a personal floatation device (PFD), assisted jumps into the water, retrieving objects, and unassisted front and back floats and bobs
Glider : Child is comfortable beginning the transition from shallow to deep water (water is over the child’s head when touching the bottom) with assistance.
Instruction covers skills such as deep water activities and unassisted front and back floats in deep water, swims of 5m in shallow water.
Diver: Child is getting comfortable in deep water. Instruction covers skills such as side-to-side rolls, work on arm action, and increasing front and back swim distances to 10m.
Surfer: Child explores diving, surface support, creative pool entries and extends swim distances to 15m. Instruction covers skills such as retrieving object from deep water, front and back swim to 15m.
Jumpers: Child further refines front and back swim to 25m and continues deep water activities. Instruction covers skills such as front and back crawl, standing dive, and surface support for 45 seconds.
Otter: Child can glide without assistance. Instruction covers skills such as submersion, unassisted front and back glide and jumps into chest deep water from a standing position.
Seal: Child is comfortable in deep water. Instruction covers skills such as deep water jumping and breath control. Participants continue to work on glides and glide up to 5m on their back.
Dolphin: Child spends more time in deep water and works to increase endurance and stamina. Instruction covers skills such as treading in deep water for 30 seconds, front glide with kick, side breathing, front and back swim with arm and leg action to distance of 15m.
Swimmer: Child spends more time in deep water and works to increase endurance and stamina. Instruction covers skills such as treading in deep water for 30 seconds, front glide with kick, side breathing, front and back swim with arm and leg action to distance of 15m.
Star 1: Participant works on endurance to complete a 75m swim. Instruction covers skills such as enhancing front crawl to initial standard and back crawl to initial standard, introduction of elementary breaststroke, swimming on back for 25m, and treading water for 2 minutes.
Star 2: Participant continues to develop front and back crawl to intermediate standard. Instruction covers skills such as introduction of
breaststroke and endurance swim of 100m.
Star 3: Participant continues to practice back crawl intermediate standard 75m, elementary backstroke initial standard 50m, and breaststroke initial standard 50m. Instruction covers skills such as eggbeater surface support, 200m swim, and starting Lifesaving Society’s Canadian Swim Patrol curriculum.
Star 4: Participant builds further endurance to swim 100m within 3 minutes. Instruction covers skills such as drowning prevention, Canadian Swim Patrol curriculum, dolphin kick 25m, eggbeater proficiency, elementary backstroke intermediate standard 75m.
Star 5: Participant works on increasing endurance to complete a 500m swim, swims 200m in 6 minutes, as well as front and back crawl of 75m each. Instruction covers skills such as sidestroke, breaststroke advanced standard, and surface dives. Rescue skills include demonstrating non-contact rescue using buoyant aid, and 5lb object support for 1 minute.
Star 6: Participant continues to develop endurance completing a 600m swim, and swims 300m in 9 minutes. Instruction covers skills such as continuing in the Canadian Swim Patrol curriculum in preparation for lifesaving courses.
- If you are looking to learn better technique, or if you want to learn to swim from the beginning, one of our YMCA Swim Instructors will help you progress in the pool. Available for members only, ages 13 years and up. Registration is not required.
Learn to swim or master a stroke. These lessons are taught in a group.
Level 1: This class is open to beginners looking to become comfortable in the water.
Level 2: This class is open to adults who can swim 20 m or one full length of the pool. The purpose of this class would be to improve strokes.
Level 3: Open to adults who are comfortable swimming 200 m. These lessons are for adults who are looking to improve speed and efficiency.
