Learn to Swim
Our Learn-to-Swim Classes
Our learn-to-swim classes cater to children aged 4 and up, focusing on character development and confidence-building through a specialised curriculum. With small class sizes, we provide personalised attention, focusing on water safety and strong swimming foundations.
The Hooked Swim Difference
Experience our year-round learn-to-swim programs featuring small student-to-teacher ratios, ensuring rapid progress and peace of mind. New students undergo a brief assessment to tailor instruction from day one.
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Celebrate your child’s achievements with Hooked Swim. Contact us today to schedule your child’s assessment and begin their journey to becoming a confident and skilled swimmer.
Swim Levels
Learning to swim is an essential life skill in Australia, where our lifestyle often involves enjoying time around water. At Hooked Swim, we pride ourselves on providing a unique swimming experience with small class sizes, experienced instructors, and a specially developed program that ensures your child gets the most out of every lesson.
In our swim school, students earn their ‘Stripes’ by passing levels, with each level carefully designed to build the fundamental skills needed for the next stage. Our dedicated teachers and supervisors continually assess each child’s progress, understanding that every child learns at their own pace. This means your child can advance when they’re ready, not just at the end of a term. You’ll receive a progress and assessment sheet at the end of each term to track your child’s development.
We recommend that new swimmers come for a quick in-water assessment before signing up, but we’re also available for a phone chat if that’s more convenient.
Below, you’ll find an outline of the 8 levels at Hooked Swim:
1 Stripe
Focus: Developing water confidence and body alignment.
Swimmers will learn to retrieve objects from the bottom of the pool, float on their front and back, and complete 5 meters of freestyle arms and 5 meters of backstroke with a kickboard.
2 Stripes
Focus: Developing balance.
Swimmers will become proficient in kicking and breathing on their sides. They will also start learning freestyle and backstroke without assistance.
3 Stripes
Focus: Breathing and body control.
Swimmers will become proficient in breathing while performing freestyle and swimming backstroke unassisted. They will also start learning breaststroke leg movements, forward rolls, and dolphin kicks.
4 Stripes
Focus: Propulsion.
Swimmers will refine their freestyle technique, swimming 25 meters with proper form, and improve their backstroke. They will work on perfecting the breaststroke kick and learn breaststroke arms.
5 Stripes
Focus: Body coordination.
Swimmers will continue developing freestyle with a 3/4 catch-up drill and backstroke with a shoulder-led recovery. They will be able to swim 25 meters of breaststroke unassisted. Butterfly arms will be introduced with fins.
Bronze Cap
Focus: Stroke awareness and technique improvement.
This level emphasizes drills to enhance stroke technique across all strokes, introduces full-stroke butterfly, and starts teaching tumble turns.
- Achieve 200 meters of freestyle, 150 meters of backstroke, and 150 meters of breaststroke.
Silver Cap
Focus: Stroke efficiency and endurance.
Swimmers work on stroke length, rotation, and timing while building endurance and refining technique.
- Achieve 300 meters of freestyle, 200 meters of backstroke, 200 meters of breaststroke, and 25 meters of butterfly with fins.
Gold Cap
Focus: Speed and racing skills.
Swimmers will incorporate speed work and racing skills to prepare for the Junior Emerging Squad.
- Achieve 400 meters of freestyle, 300 meters of backstroke, 300 meters of breaststroke, and 25 meters of butterfly without fins.
Junior Emerging Squad
The first squad following the Learn to Swim program.
The focus is on developing skills such as dives and tumble turns, while improving stroke technique across all four strokes. Sessions last 60 minutes, with a recommendation of 2-3 sessions per week. Typical age range: 8-11 years.