Classes For All Learners and Abilities

At Advantage Aquatics, our swim programs for school-aged children are designed to build strong swimming skills, water safety awareness, and confidence in every child. We offer both private and group lessons, with a quieter pool available for swimmers with additional or sensory needs. Our experienced instructors use a child-led approach that balances skill development with fun, ensuring each swimmer progresses at their own pace. From beginners just gaining confidence in the water to more advanced swimmers refining their technique, our supportive environment helps every child thrive and enjoy their time in the pool.

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Swim Level Questions
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Explorers

The Explorers level focuses on strengthening and refining the foundational swimming skills children have started to develop. Emphasising key techniques such as buoyancy, floating, paddling, and kicking, this stage helps children build on their basic abilities and gain confidence in the water. Children practise floating comfortably on their backs and stomachs to improve water stability and comfort, while also refining their paddling and kicking techniques for more efficient movement.

Water safety is a key component of the program, with children practising essential safety skills both with and without goggles. This prepares them for various swimming conditions, ensuring they can stay safe and focused whether submerged underwater or swimming on the surface. Through a combination of skill development and safety practice, the Explorers level provides children with a solid foundation for more advanced swimming techniques and a greater awareness of water safety.


Adventures

The Adventurers level serves as a crucial transition between foundational skills and more advanced swimming techniques. Swimmers focus on refining streamlined body positioning, developing freestyle fundamentals, and improving back kicking and sculling to enhance strength, coordination, and endurance in the water. Breath control and efficient movement are emphasised to support smooth, confident swimming. Additionally, essential water safety skills are reinforced, ensuring swimmers build confidence and competence as they progress to higher levels.

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Pathfinders

In Pathfinders, swimmers refine their freestyle technique with a focus on bilateral breathing. They are also introduced to backstroke. This level emphasises consistent practice to develop correct technique while incorporating additional water safety skills. Swimmers also begin learning the fundamentals of breaststroke, working on building endurance, coordination, and body positioning to enhance efficiency in the water. With personalised feedback and a supportive small group environment, they gain confidence and proficiency in preparation for more advanced levels.

Achievers

Achievers is designed to develop endurance and refine technique in freestyle and backstroke while perfecting breaststroke technique. Swimmers are challenged to maintain proper form over greater distances, improving strength, efficiency, and stroke precision in the water. This level also emphasises adaptability by encouraging skill execution both with and without goggles, preparing swimmers for varied aquatic environments. Additionally, swimmers work on building greater stamina and confidence, pushing their abilities to new limits. Through focused practice and feedback, they are well-prepared to progress to more advanced levels of swimming.

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Trailblazers

Trailblazers is the culminating stage of the learn-to-swim journey, focused on refining and unifying technique across all four competitive strokes—freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. Swimmers are challenged to demonstrate endurance, efficiency, and precise form while maintaining control over longer distances. This level also emphasises advanced water safety and survival skills, ensuring swimmers are confident and capable in diverse aquatic conditions. Through disciplined practice, feedback, and skill integration, Trailblazers develop the strength, consistency, and readiness needed to transition into squad-level training with confidence.