Level: Little to no water experience.

Ideal for young children, this popular 20-minute class focuses on building water confidence and essential skills from an early age.

Level: Little to no water experience.

Children will start with armbands and may have little or no water confidence. At this stage, they are not yet able to swim any distance without support.

To progress: All children must be able to swim 3 metres unaided on both their front and back.

Level: Children will have completed all elements of Stage 1 and will be able to swim at least 3 metres unaided on both their front and back.

In this stage, they will be introduced to breaststroke and will continue to develop their front crawl and backstroke techniques.

To Progress: All children must be able to swim 5 metres unaided on both their front and back, using an alternating arm action for each stroke. They should also be confident putting their face in the water and demonstrate a basic understanding of the breaststroke arm movement.

Level: Children will have completed all elements of Stage 2.

In this stage, they will be introduced to butterfly while continuing to develop their technique in all other strokes.

To Progress: All children must be able to swim 10 metres on both their front and back, demonstrating basic stroke techniques. They should also be able to travel 5 metres using a breaststroke leg kick and show a preliminary understanding of the dolphin leg kick

Level: Children will have completed all elements of Stage 3.

In this stage, children will be expected to swim 10 metres of front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke, all with good leg kick technique, as well as 10 metres of dolphin leg kick for butterfly.

To progress: At this stage children will be introduced to a variety of new water skills.

Level: Children will have completed all elements of Stage 4.

In this stage, children will be introduced to deep water skills such as treading water, somersaults, and jumping into deep water.

To progress: All children must be able to swim 25 metres of backstroke, front crawl, and breaststroke, as well as 10 metres of butterfly, all with good technique.

Level: Children will have completed all elements of Stage 5.

In this stage, children will need to demonstrate a good understanding of preparation for exercise and perform a range of deep water skills, including an 100-metre swim.

To progress: All children must be competent in swimming 50 metres of front crawl, breaststroke, and backstroke, as well as 15 metres of butterfly, all with an efficient technique.

Level: Children will have completed all elements of Stage 6.

In this stage, Children will need to swim 200 metres using three different stroke techniques, as well as complete a 400-metre swim in under 15 minutes.

To progress: All children must also be competent in swimming 100 metres of front crawl, breaststroke, and backstroke, and 25 metres of butterfly.