Aquagym

The children have had a great start to their week of swimming at Aquagym. The focus of the lessons are to develop good swimming techniques on both the front and back, with the children grouped on their current swimming abilities. Listed below are progressions of some of the swimming skills that the children will working on.

• ·      Floating on front
• ·      Floating on back  
• ·      Gliding on front
• ·      Gliding on back
• ·      Freestyle arm action – use flutter boards
• ·      Side stroke – one arm out straight other beside body, kicking, head to the side
• ·      Kicking on front
• ·      Kicking on back
• ·      Freestyle without assistance – focus on when to breathe, looking at the bottom of the pool
• ·      Breaststroke leg action
• ·      Breaststroke arm action
• ·      Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke 25m