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