LEVELS
Toddler
- Safely enter and exit the water
- Water confidence
- Congratulations on completing Bluesalt Swim School’s toddler program. You are now a big swimmer able to learn to swim independently.
Beginner 1
- Safely enter and exit the water
- Full submersion
- Front and back float assisted
- Kicking on front and back
- Jump to teacher from poolside
Beginner 2
- Safely enter and exit the water
- Front and back float
- Assisted flutter kick on front and back
- Front torpedo
- Jump into water and return to poolside unassisted
Level 1
- Safely enter and exit the water
- Streamline torpedo on front
- Swimming arms on front with correct arm action and flutter kick
- Unassisted back kick
- Jump into water, pop up breath and return to pool side unassisted.
Level 1/2
- Safely enter and exit the water
- Front and back streamline torpedo over 15 metres
- Freestyle with correct side breathing, arm action and flutter kick over 15 metres
- Correct backstroke over 15 meters
- Retrieve sinkable from deep water
Level 2
- Safely enter and exit the water
- Building to correct freestyle over 25 meters
- Building to correct backstroke over 25 metres
- Survival backstroke for 15 metres
- Kneeling dive start
Level 3
- Safely enter and exit the water
- 50 metres of sustained freestyle with correct form
- 50 metres of sustained backstroke with correct form
- 25 metres of breaststroke with correct timing
- 15 meters of fluid dolphin kick
Level 4
- Safely enter and exit the water
- Swim 100 metres of each with correct form: Freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke
- Maintain correct butterfly form over 25 metres
- 150 meters survival swim
- Perform streamlined racing dive
Pre-squad
- Safely enter and exit the water
- Swim 200 metres of each with correct form: Freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke
- Complete butterfly over 50 metres
- Perform split stroke and dolphin kick starts.
- Introduction to tumble turns
- 250 metres survival swim.
- Continuous treading water over a timed period.
Squad
- Able to continuously maintain a swim over 1 kilometre
- Accomplished in all competitive strokes
- Demonstrate starts and turns for all competitive strokes
- 400 metres survival swim. Continuous treading water over a timed period
- Congratulations on completing Bluesalt Swim School’s learn to swim program
