Swimming Lessons for Kids in Newington
Building Capable, Confident, and Competitive Swimmers
Our children’s lessons pick up where early water comfort leaves off. Starting at the Capable stage, swimmers begin mastering essential safety and stroke skills, gaining the confidence to explore new challenges in the water. As they progress, swimmers in Newington can advance to the Competitive stage, where technique, endurance, and lifelong confidence come together.
Beginner Swim Lessons
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Beginner 1
Goal: Swimmers can comfortably blow bubbles with their face in the water in the horizontal “swimming” position with productive kicks with light support from the instructor.
Skills learned:
- Breath Control: Mouth Bubbles Fully Submerged
- Supported Front and Back Floats and Kicks
- Water Safety Focus: Breath Hold, Wall Walks
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Beginner 2
Goal: Swimmers can jump in the pool, blow nose bubbles, turn around, and kick to the wall independently.
Skills learned:
- Breath Control: Nose Bubbles Nose Bubbles
- Independent Front and Back Float
- Water Safety Focus: Rollover Glide, Safety Bobs
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Beginner 3
Goal: Swimmers can jump in, back float, spot the wall, rollover and swim to the wall independently.
Skills learned:
- Independent Front and Back Kicks
- Independent Freestyle and Backstroke
- Water Safety Focus: Safety Backstroke, Rollover Kicks
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Beginner 4
Goal: Swimmers can self-rescue using freestyle and backstroke up to 20ft.
Skills learned:
- Freestyle with Side Breathing
- Backstroke with Proper Timing
- Water Safety Focus: Treading Water
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Learn To Swim+: BeginnersWatch your child excel with the combined benefits of weekly group classes and monthly one-on-one coaching. Accelerate your swimmer's progress with the LTS+ Program! LTS+ Lessons include a weekly, 30-minute small group class in the pool and a monthly, 20-minute private lesson in the tank using our video technology. Our Beginner level classes (Beginner 1 - 4) are for swimmers ages 3+ and are designed for students with no swim experience to those working towards independent swimming. Swimmers start with learning the basic safety skills (blowing bubbles through the mouth and nose, front and back float, as well as the beginning arm and kicking movements for freestyle) and progress to independent freestyle, develop backstroke technique, and continue to build on water safety skills. Our small group classes are scheduled weekly on a perpetual basis (same day and time each week). Up to 4 students per class. Students are grouped by skill level and similar age ranges.
Intermediate & Advanced Swim Lessons
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Intermediate 1
Goal: Swimmers can swim 25 yards of Freestyle and Backstroke and can-do Breaststroke kick.
Skills learned:
- Underwater Streamline
- Refine Technique and Improve Endurance in Freestyle and Backstroke
- Water Safety Focus: Endurance, Freestyle without Goggles
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Intermediate 2
Goal: Swimmers can swim 50 yards of Freestyle and Backstroke, full Breaststroke and dolphin kick.
Skills learned:
- Refine Technique and Improve Endurance in Freestyle and Backstroke
- Independent Breaststroke
- Introduction to Butterfly, Open Turns and Flip Turns
- Water Safety Focus: Endurance, Advanced Treading Water
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Intermediate 3
Goal: Swimmers can legally swim all four competitive strokes and perform open and closed turns.
Skills learned:
- Advanced Technique for Freestyle Backstroke & Breaststroke
- Independent Butterfly
- Open and Flip Turns
- Water Safety Focus: Endurance
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Advanced 1
Goal: Swimmers will enhance their stroke technique to improve efficiency and become stronger, safer swimmers.
Skills learned:
- Advanced Technique/Drills for all four Strokes
- Individual Medley Transitions
- Water Safety: Endurance in all four Strokes
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Advanced 2
Goal: Swimmers will refine stroke mechanics, build endurance, and demonstrate advanced water safety through efficient swimming across all four strokes.
Skills learned:
- Stroke refinement and endurance for Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Butterfly
- Individual Medley transitions and pacing
- Water Safety: Sustained swimming and stamina in all four strokes
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Learn To Swim+: IntermediateWatch your child excel with the combined benefits of weekly group classes and monthly one-on-one coaching. Accelerate your swimmer's progress with the LTS+ Program! LTS+ Lessons include a weekly, 30-minute small group class in the pool and a monthly, 20-minute private lesson in the tank using our video technology. In our Intermediate class levels (Intermediate 1-3), swimmers continue building on their safety skills while developing their freestyle side breathing and backstroke technique (Intermediate 1). Swimmers progress to learning breaststroke and ultimately accomplishing the butterfly stroke (Intermediate 3). Our small group classes are scheduled weekly on a perpetual basis (same day and time each week). Up to 4 students per class. Students are grouped by skill level and similar age ranges.
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Learn To Swim+: AdvancedWatch your child excel with the combined benefits of weekly group classes and monthly one-on-one coaching. Accelerate your swimmer's progress with the LTS+ Program! LTS+ Lessons include a weekly, 30-minute small group class in the pool and a monthly, 20-minute private lesson in the tank using our video technology. In our Advanced level classes (Advanced 1 - 2) swimmers focus on improving technique and gaining endurance and develop competition skills such as advanced safety skills, turns, and streamlining. Our small group classes are scheduled weekly on a perpetual basis (same day and time each week). Up to 4 students per class. Students are grouped by skill level and similar age ranges. Our small group classes are scheduled weekly on a perpetual basis (same day and time each week). Up to 4 students per class. Students are grouped by skill level and similar age ranges.
