Our swimming development programme is designed for children of all ages and abilities, from complete beginners to advanced students. Courses run for 10 weeks and each lesson lasts for 30 minutes.
Parent and Toddler
This instructed class shows parents/carers how to get their child confident in the water and is for children from three months to three years. A child of three years and above may benefit from this if they lack water confidence. All babies/children enrolled will work towards the 7 Duckling Awards.
Pre-School
Suitable for children aged 3 years up to 5 years or in full time education, whichever is sooner. The instructor will be in the pool with the children and will work on building up their confidence in the water.
Non-Swimmers (Water Skills 1)
Children must be in full-time education or 5 years and over, the children learn to float in the water and work towards swimming without aid on their front and back for five metres.
Beginners (Water Skills 2)
Gaining confidence in the water and aiming to swim fifteen metres frontcrawl, ten metres backstroke and learning basic butterfly leg kick.
Intermediate (Water Skills 3)
Pupils will learn to swim 25 metres of frontcrawl and backstroke without pausing, and they will continue to develop butterfly leg kicks and introducing butterfly arms into the stroke.
High Intermediate (Water Skills 4)
Pupils will work up to swimming 200 metres, learn how to do a sitting dive and continue to develop all 4 main strokes.
Advanced Level 1 (Water Skills 5)
Pupils will continue to gain confidence swimming further and work towards achieving The Bronze Challenge Award.
Advanced Level 2 (Water Skills 6)
Same objective as Advanced Level 1 but working towards achieving The Silver and Gold Challenge Awards.
Once your child has completed The Dolphin Centre swim programme, they can move onto the Bromsgrove Swimming Club - please contact reception for further details.