SWIMMING LESSONS FOR KIDS IN SINGAPORE COURSE OVERVIEW

Kids Swimming Lessons Singapore

Our in-house kids swimming lessons are available throughout the weekdays and weekends.

Our kids’ swimming lessons are conducted by qualified coaches who adhere to the national swimsafer curriculum and awards.

Students are divided into groups based on their learning abilities.

New students, for example, who sign up, will be placed in our beginners’ class.

Children learn at different rates, so we’ll work with you to identify their best learning style.

Our swimming sessions are conducted every week at all public and private swimming pools in Singapore. If you prefer to take swimming lessons in another public pool or at your own house, there are no additional fees.

We design our children’s swimming sessions to encourage each student to realize their best potential.

Children learn a variety of abilities and methods in our swimming lessons that other programs do not, such as dolphin kicks, breaststrokes, and flip turns. We also teach children how to swim and be safe in the water.

Friendly Dolphin Swim School follows Swim safer programs. On the other hand, students who perform well on tests will receive certificates from the school.

They will be performed in public pools and evaluated by Sports Singapore assessors.

Our swim class is appropriate for your child’s goals, regardless of what they are:

pursuing swim team correcting strokes and swim instructing lifeguarding in the future swim coaching in the future swim safer certifications

When your kid satisfies the requirements for the Swimsafer Syllabus 2022 and awards, our coaches will ensure that he or she can take the test.

Students will learn crucial skills, such as how to be safe and save a life, that they will be able to utilize for the rest of their lives. We are pleased to report that from 2015 to 2021, more than 97 percent of pupils who took the Swimsafer examinations passed.

Friendly Dolphin private and public swimming instructors will provide a test at the start of instruction to see how well the students can swim in the first few classes.

Students will receive a report card to keep track of their development and to encourage them to continue swimming.

Students will acquire the following skills during this swimming class:

  • How to stroll, jump, and run around in the pool to become acquainted with the water.
  • To acclimatize to the water environment.
  • How to blow bubbles and pick up items from the sea. They will be instructed on what to do and what not to do in the swimming pool.
  • How to stay afloat in a star floating position, faceup, or facedown.
  • Learn about bobbing and how to do it safely. Our instructors will teach you how to glide and breathe in rhythm.
  • Students will learn to stay afloat in the star floating position, faceup and facedown.
  • Jumping into deep water, treading water, and full-body submersion
  • Integration of flutter kicking and gliding ability
  • Long-distance and longer-duration swimming drills to increase stamina.
  • How to effectively swim front crawl, rear crawl, breaststroke, and butterfly.

WHY LEARN TO SWIM?

Life skills are essential for everyone.


Spending time and money on vital topics is the best way to have a brighter future and be happier.

People can use this expertise for the rest of their lives.

Investing in both intellectual and physical knowledge education is an excellent method to plan for your children’s future.

Whether it costs a lot of time, effort, money, or a combination of all three, the value of the knowledge and skills you gain will compensate.

Swimming classes for children and learning to swim are valuable skills that will always be in demand. This is a significant investment that will benefit your children in the long run.

People who took swimming lessons can recoup more than just the money they paid.

Private swimming lessons will help children learn and enhance their skills. They will be reimbursed for what they paid for them.

Improve Your Academic Performance


Learning to swim helps children do better in school. Children who participated in organized sports and exercised frequently were more than twice as likely to achieve higher grades than they should have.

Learning to swim can help pupils gain confidence and self-esteem as they learn about sports.


WHY SHOULD YOU ENROLL YOUR KID IN OUR SWIMMING LESSONS?

Effective methods of teachings

Our in-house swimming lessons for children use a coaching system that groups students according to their current level of learning. Students who join for the first time will enroll in one of our new or existing introductory courses.

Additionally, we have been featured on popular parenting blogs such as HoneyKidsAsia and SassyMamaSG as one of the best swimming schools for children.

Convenience, Value, and Flexibility

With more than 200 classes in Singapore across the island. Our coordinators are very friendly and will do their best to put your child on the schedule you want.

Please fill up our registration and register for class times. Group swimming lessons for kids start at S$25 per class.

A new invoice will be issued before every 4 lessons. You also have to pay each student a $100 deposit before starting class.

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS

Private and public pools integrated swim safer assessment programs

Approve swim safer syllabus teaching methodologies

Up-to-date, bite-sized course swimming breakdowns and notes.

Hands-on, interactive, instructor-led children’s swimming lessons

Safe aquatic opportunities to practice skills that are taught during swimming lessons.

Actionable strategies, frameworks, and techniques to help learn to swim fast

Comprehensive and structured curriculum

 Real-world examples and case studies on technical swimming

 Developed and delivered by swimming experts

 Fully equipped, modern swimming facilities and equipment to speed up the learning process.

 Lifetime skill that will safeguard your life

 Learn swimming in Singapore with expert swimming instructors

 Conducive small group swimming lessons

Professional Swimming Lessons

Swimming lessons that are both safe and progressive

 

KIDS SWIMMING LESSONS SINGAPORE FOR AGE GROUP 4 – 12 YEARS OLD

Improving Health 

Swimming regularly for children aged 4 – 12 years old can help improve lung and heart health, build strength and endurance, and prevent childhood obesity.

Improving Social Skills 

Swimming allows children in this age group from 4 – 12 years old to develop social skills outside of school by interacting with others who share their interests.

Learning a life-saving skill 

Allow your children in this age group, 4 – 12 years old, to learn to swim, which is one of the most important life-saving skills.

Improves their mental well-being for this age group. 

Swimming, like any other form of exercise, produces feel-good endorphins that improve the mental health of your children from 4 – 12 years old while doing something they enjoy.

OUR VENUES FOR KIDS’ SWIMMING LESSONS

  • Pasir Ris Swimming Complex
  • Heartbeat Bedok Swimming Complex
  • Our Tampines Hub Swimming Complex
  • Geylang East Swimming Complex
  • Delta Swimming Complex
  • Hougang Swimming Complex
  • Serangoon Swimming Complex
  • Toa Payoh Swimming Complex
  • Kallang Basin Swimming Complex
  • Jurong West Swimming Complex
  • Jurong East Swimming Complex
  • Yio Chu Kang Swimming Complex
  • Woodlands Swimming Complex
  • Yishun Swimming Complex
  • Choa Chu Kang Swimming Complex
  • Clementi Swimming Complex
  • Senja Cashew Swimming Complex
  • Bukit Batok Swimming Complex

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Assessments will be done after swimming lessons to help the school understand the abilities of prospective students.

The whole curriculum will move into five categories progress in a hierarchical fashion.

Students will learn water adjustment skills, flotation skills, basic propulsion, breathing skills, swimming stroke skills, entry, and exit skills.

Swimming instructors will guide students on how to do a body face-up star float floating exercise.

Swimming instructors will guide students to do a face-down star float floating exercise.

Interactive children’s swimming lessons will allow kids to work through a BLABT step by step teaching methods in all correction of swimming strokes.

Participants will gain insight as to how to position and maintain a good position during swimming. And how to swim longer periods of time for longer distances.

Skills such as front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, survival backstroke, sidestroke, and butterfly will be taught throughout the course.

Students will learn survival skills such as boating rules, environmental dangers, maintaining buoyancy by removing excessive clothing, and treading water.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the swimming lessons for kids, everyone who took part will know how to swim.

  • Be able to show that you know everything there is to know about floating and being comfortable in the water, how to blow bubbles, and how to stay safe when submerging.
  • Find out what to do and not to do in life-threatening situations so you can stay alive.
  • You should be able to float on the water with less effort and glide after you kick off the wall for at least 2 to 3 meters.
  • Skills like bobbing, rhythmic breathing, and gliding can be taken to a more advanced level by doing them more.
  •  Jumping into deep water, treading water, and fully submerging their bodies in the water.
  • Long-distance swimming and performing skills for a long time are two things you can do.
  • Students will be able to use the BLABT method when they learn swimming strokes. BLABT is a method that moves forwards.
  • As you practice and learn different types of swimming strokes, the BLABT strategy moves you from body position, leg action, arm action, breathing, timing, and coordination to help you get better at them.
  • Improve the quality of your swimming and do better streamlining while you are in the water.
  • Improve your strength.
  • Improve your crawl stroke outside of the pool.
  • Improve how well you can dive.

SWIMSAFER-CERTIFIED

Attain proficiency in swimming skills such as front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, sidestroke, and butterfly stroke at the end of the course

Learn survival skills such as boating rules, environmental dangers, maintain buoyancy by removing excess clothing and treading water

Become swim safer certified

PRIVATE SWIMMING LESSONS FOR KIDS

Individual or smaller group swimming lessons cap at 5 pax available for students who need more attention to learn swimming.

Private swimming lessons for kids can be conducted in both private condominiums, clubhouse pools, and public swimming complexes.

Beginner Level

Students will learn how to enter the water safely and how to be safe in deep water. General safety knowledge alongside learning how to move forward and backward in the water is taught as well. Personal survival skills and the ability to properly enter and exit the pool will be covered here. Read more – SwimSafer Stage 1

Intermediate Level

Additional skills on how to get into the water and how to perform a surface dive are covered. Sculling, personal safety skills and awareness of where one is in the water will be introduced as well. Students will learn to swim at least 25 metres. Read more – SwimSafer Stage 2

This stage introduce rescue skills alongside water survival skills. Students will enhanced underwater and sculling skills. Handling personal floatation devices will be taught too. During this stage, students will learn how to swim at least 50 metres continuously at this programme. Read more – SwimSafer Stage 3

Advance Level

Students will learn how to handle stroke techniques and perform coordinated breathing in deep water. This also works with helping to get children to know how to be safe around watercraft and how to work with intermediate water survival and rescue skills. The new goal at this point is to swim for 100 meters continuously. Read more – SwimSafer Stage 4

This part of the process involves learning how to dive into the water and how to handle advanced rescue and survival skills. A vital part of this process involves allowing the child to learn how to handle swimming strokes so that the child can get to the last stage. Read more – SwimSafer Stage 5

This is the last stage. Students will learn to perform proper swimming strokes in order to swim for 400 metres continuously. Students will learn how to stay afloat with ease for a longer period of time as well. Also, advanced lifesaving rescue, standing dive and safety skills will be continue be taught. Read more – SwimSafer Stage 6

FAQs

There is no need for parents to be in the pool with the child. You can observe the class near the pool.

We propose holding the class separately because they are in distinct categories. We will offer back-to-back lessons for your children. We will use a separate curriculum for toddler and kid swimming lessons.

This is not recommended. Because our children’s program is designed for children aged 4+ and older, your youngster may struggle to keep up. It might be counter-productive. We shall, however, review the decision on a case-by-case basis to see if the youngster is appropriate for the class.

You need to have your own swim gear, goggles and float board for the first lesson. Your swimming instructor may advise you further after the first lesson.

Our instructors conducting kids classes are fully qualified with the relevant certifications from the Singapore Sports Council and Singapore Swimming Teachers’ Association. They are trained and experienced in conducting swimming lessons for kids.

You are welcome to register a package that offers a minimum of 4 lessons. You may refer to the kids swimming lessons fee page for more information. We are sorry that we do not offer single trial class at the moment.

We highly recommend a doctor’s opinion to be sought first as there are varying degrees of Asthma.

Please email your inquiries to info@swimclasses.com.sg, we will be in touch with you soon. Alternatively, call us at +65 6016 2573, Mondays – Fridays, 9 am – 7 pm.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course is suitable for students of age group 5 – 15 years old.

Anyone looking to gain proficiency in swimming and attain swim safer certification awards at the end of the course.

COURSE PROGRESSION

Instructor-led | Building confidence and walking skills in the water.

0.4 Metres Shallow Pool for Beginners | Learn the Fundamentals

Introduces the fundamentals in a shallow pool for novices with no prior swimming experience.

Your child will be introduced to the deep pool. Your child will advance to the Intermediate Class after completing the Learning Checklist.

Learning Checklist

  1. Kicking Methods
  2. Proper Breath Control
  3. Blowing Bubbles
  4. Star Float
  5. Getting Comfortable in Water

Instructor-led | Stay comfortable floating faceup or facedown in water while swimming

Instructor-led | Learn to do correct flutter and whip kicking in swimming. Learn to maintain a streamlined position during swimming with right-hand and leg coordination.

Class Intermediate | 1.2 to 1.8 Meters Deep Pool Swim 25 Metres

After your child learns the basics, he or she can swim 25 meters without help.

Once this is done, your child will start preparing for the Swimsafer Test, a national swimming test recognized by the Ministry of Education.

 

Learning Checklist 

Thread Water

Breaststroke/Freestyle

Arms, Legs, and Breathing Coordination

Unassisted Swim 25 Meters

Instructor-led | In this skill students will still be continuing to develop the gliding. But combined with the rolling over front and back to develop a more independent gliding. This skill practice will prepare students for back crawl and survival backstroke.

Instructor-led | All strokes and long distances swimming will be practiced at this stage. Strokes correction will be reinforced at this stage.

TESTIMONIALS

“Very interactive course, our company attended the course with them to learn more about swimming, we started swimming better and are able to be more comfortable in water. The classes are conducted in their private pool in Bedok and Redhill! Very convenient and nice place to swim in!”
– Mok Peng Ngee

This course is suitable for anyone who is interested in upgrading a lifesaving skill for themselves in swimming. I strongly encouraged that all people must at least have some survival skills in the water.
– Roger Lim

IMPORTANT MESSAGES FOR ALL PARENTS, GUARDIANS, AND STUDENTS

Parents have a significant influence on their children’s swimming experiences. So while children work hard to learn to swim, parents should know how to assist them.

  • Do not anticipate your youngster to be able to swim immediately after being introduced to water. The individual’s learning ability determines it. As a parent, you should keep the long-term aim in mind and avoid putting too much pressure on accomplishment and expecting immediate results, as this can be counter-productive.
  • Don’t get too excited over your child’s improvement. Allow them to grow and improve at their own pace. There is no quick fix for learning to swim. Perfect practice makes perfect. Every child requires consistent instruction and training, so don’t rush them! Short and frequent regular visits will teach your child far more than the odd long ones.
  • Don’t quit if your toddler no longer likes the water! Instead, continue your regular lessons, but don’t throw away all your previous hard work. Rather than missing lessons, it is better to just hang out and observe what the others are doing.
  • Don’t make comparisons between your child and others. Everyone has a unique learning style.
  • Don’t panic if your child accidentally falls into the water and consumes water during the session; this is part of the learning process. Thank them for attempting. Children should be encouraged. Children will enjoy and have fun as a result of this.
  • If your child sobs during the lesson, this does not indicate that they are not ready for swimming lessons. Your youngster could be adjusting to the separation from Mum and Dad, adjusting to their new surroundings, or simply having a bad day. Give your child some space and time to grow in confidence. They will soon be able to share this fantastic experience with us in a completely calm setting.

Class Policy

  • Collection of fees is based on every 4 lessons excluding public holiday
  • Notice of 4 weeks should be given if a student wish to withdraw himself/herself from group classes. Charges of a month will be charged if earlier notice is not given.
  • Swim safer assessments will be given to participants instructors deem fit for assessments.
  • Friendly Dolphin reserve the right to postpone starting date of the class if the group is not full yet.
  • Terms and conditions apply.

Course Fees

Per pax for every four lessons

Individual

Individual S$320

Duration: 45 minutes

Group

2 in a group S$180
3 in a group S$160
4/5 in a group S$120
6 and abv. S$100

Duration: 45 minutes

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PROFESSIONAL COACHES

Fully trained under Sport SG, our experienced coaches have been through rigorous training and selection processes, making them well-equipped to guide you to feel at ease when teaching your children to swim.

CRYSTAL CLEAR WATERS

We are dedicated to delivering safe and secure swimming pools for swimming lessons. SPORT SG & condo pools maintain our pools' superior chlorination, paired with a UV filter to eliminate bacteria and other by-products safely. So enjoy clear water without shivering, stinging eyes, or dry hair and skin!

SWIMSAFER CURRICULUM

Our established swimsafer curriculum is the product of 14 years of experience working with parents and children to grasp the most successful teaching approaches thoroughly. We currently have over 10,000 students across Singapore and Malaysia, supported by a 200-person team dedicated to turning small ripples into huge aspirations.

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