Otter Pup Four
The Otter Pup Four class is for children who are aged between 1 and 2 years, and are very confident in the water, have excellent breath control and are confident submerging. This class aims to provide lots of opportunities to extend these children, working towards independent swimming and combining the skills of kicking, paddling and submerging. Water safety elements become more complex with more difficult gripping and vertical turning activities.
Otter Pup Four are:
- Aged 1-2 years
- Group class with a maximum of 6 students
- Swimming babies with excellent breath control, submersion and mobility skills
- Age based progression
What do our Otter Fish Four students learn?
- Building and developing submersion skills
- Developing and progressing mobility skills
- Developing independence in their movement through the water
- Independent floating
- Progression of safety skills, including vertical submersions and turns, returning to a pool edge independently, moving along a pool edge, exiting the water independently
When I graduate from Otter Pup Four:
- I am confident in the water
- I can submerge confidently with excellent breath control
- I can blow bubbles
- I can kick and paddle on cue
- I can kick on my back
- I can float on my back
- I can independently swim to a teacher or parent
- I can vertically turn front to back with assistance
- I can move myself along the pool edge independently