ASCARATE SEASONAL AQUATIC PROGRAMS

learn to swim
SWIM TEAMS
PARENT & toddler learn to swim
Preschool Aquatics Learn to swim
Fitness classes

 
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Swim lessons for all levels

Swim lessons are the best way to introduce your child to water safety and best practices. While there is never a substitution for supervision of a child near water, swim lessons instill the basics of safe choices and how best to behave in and around water. Our swim lessons are taught by trained professionals who focus on the levels of each child and work with their ability and potential. 

LEARN TO SWIM

The program is designed to accommodate different skill levels, allowing children and youth to start with basic skills and then progress to more advanced techniques such as stroke technique and proper swim form.

Learn-To-Swim Marathon
30-minute class
6 to 8 participants per class
$5.00 per family

 

Learn-to-Swim Group Lessons

  • Learn-to-Swim program is available from April to August

  • $40 for 8 classes

  • Each class is a total of 30 minutes

  • Up to 6 per group

PROGRAM LEVELS

Parent and Toddler Learn to Swim

Purpose:
Familiarize children between the ages of 6mo. to 3 yrs. with the water and teach swimming readiness skills.

  • Water exploration, getting face wet, blowing bubbles, splashing

  • Floating on back

  • Swimming from instructor to parent with support

  • Provide safety information for parents and teach techniques parents can use to orient their children to the water

Prerequisites:
No skill prerequisites
For ages 6 months to 3 years 11 months with a parent in the water with them.



Learn to Swim- Preschool Aquatics Level 1
Purpose:
Preschool Aquatics introduces basic aquatic skill face I the water, blowing bubbles, float on your back, comfort in the water, fun in the water. Children start developing positive attitudes and safe practices around the water

Prerequisites:
Child must be between 4 and 5 years old.

 

Learn to Swim Level 1

Purpose:
For the beginner who is comfortable in the water.

  • Swimmers learn basics of swimming: bobbing, streamline push from the wall, face in the water to instructor, going under water, rotate from streamline kick to back-float, splashing kicks, rotate from back-float to face in and streamline kick to the wall

Prerequisites: 
Child must be between 6 and 12 years old.

 

Learn to Swim Level 2

Purpose:
Swimmers should already be able to float on front and back and put their head under water. Swimmers will work on: independent front and back floating, independent rolling over from front to back and back to front, independent front and back glides, front crawl arms and kicks, back crawl arms and kicks, retrieving underwater objects, and jumping into water over their head.

Prerequisites: 
Swimmers should already be able to float on front and back and put their head under water

 

Learn to Swim – Teen

Purpose:
Introduces basic aquatic skills and swimming strokes, including the front crawl, and elementary backstroke. Participants strive for stroke performance at the level indicated. Participants also learn skills and concepts needed to stay safe around water, in addition to those needed to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency.

Prerequisites:
Participants must be between 13-17 years old

 
Aquatics Learn to Swim Open Program 5 to 12 years old

Purpose:
Safety Skills – Learning the basics to be safe in the water, freestyle arm development, streamline push from wall into freestyle stroke, rotate from freestyle swim to back-float, learn timing for freestyle breath.

Aquatics Learn to Swim Open Program for Teens between the ages of 13 to 17 years old

Purpose:
If there is an excellent exercise for teenagers and/or young adults, it is swimming. As a complete sport, its benefits for the 13–17-year-old age group are many. We know that teenagers need healthy distractions, and what better than a multi-functional sport.

In this class we will work on the basic skills, for both boys and girls as well as adults, until all these basic skills are mastered, the teaching and learning process of the other levels begins, which are based on the 4 swimming styles.

The Aquatics Learn to Swim program will include water safety topics appropriate to the age of the participants, delivered as part of the Learn to Swim class.

WATER AEROBICS

Purpose:
The Water Fitness program can be enjoyed by both swimmers and non-swimmers alike. Exercise in the water promotes cardiorespiratory fitness, endurance, strength, flexibility and muscle toning with minimal stress to the joints. Water Fitness classes can benefit those who recover from injury or who suffer from chronic medical conditions

Prerequisites:
No skill prerequisites 

 

What should we expect?

Your child should be prepared for their lesson with the following items:

  • towel

  • goggles

  • sunblock

  • swimwear

  • bottled water (no glass)

Parents or authorized guardians are required to stay present at the facility for the duration of the lesson. 

There will be a re-entry fee if the student and/or family wishes to stay for open swim following the lesson. 

Registration

Registration can be completed in the Park Administration office, 6900 Delta (inside Ascarate Park, between the Golf Course and Fire Academy), Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm. The fee is $40 for 8 lessons.

Payment can be made in cash, check, or money order, or by credit card at the Administration office. 

Please call 915-273-3501 with any questions.