School Age Lessons
Give your child the lifelong gifts of water safety and confidence. From the first day your child enters primary school their physical abilities really start to take off. Swimming isn’t just a great sport to get into at this time – but it’s also the perfect way to release that extra energy!
Whether your child is in primary or intermediate school, we can support and train them in reaching their physical and personal swimming goals.
Programme Details at a Glance
Ages: Primary & Intermediate School Children
Lesson Duration: 30-40 minutes (up to 60 minutes for advanced squads)
Flexible Timetable: A wide range of class times available to fit your schedule.
Caregiver Policy: A caregiver is required to remain poolside throughout the lesson.
Our Learn to Swim Levels
Our structured levels ensure your child is always in the right class for their ability, learning alongside peers at a similar stage. We monitor each child's progress closely and graduate them to the next challenge as soon as they're ready.
"At Easyswim Swim School, we make learning to swim fun and motivating for kids!"
Our sticker and ribbon charts are a fantastic way for swimmers and parents to track progress and celebrate achievements.
Here’s how it works:
- Each swimming level has 4–6 key goals.
- Every time your child achieves a goal, they earn a sticker for their chart.
- When all goals are completed, your child moves up a level and receives a special ribbon to celebrate their success.
Kids love collecting stickers and ribbons, and this reward system gives them extra motivation to work hard, improve quickly, and feel proud of their progress.
Start your child’s swimming journey today and watch them achieve their goals with Easyswim’s fun and effective progress tracking system!
STARFISH (Level 1 + 2)
Primary and Intermediate School Age
Focus: Starfish is our beginner class for children who are happy fully submerging their heads, with activities focusing on making the participant comfortable and happy in the water. Floating, submersion and breath control are the main activities. Basic gliding is also developed.
Duration: 30 minutes
SEAHORSE (Level 3)
Primary and Intermediate School Age
Focus: Floating and water safety skills are maintained while horizontal gliding and kicking is introduced and developed. Development of correct kick action is the primary goal at this level.
Duration: 30 minutes
GOLDFISH (Level 4)
Primary and Intermediate School Age
Focus: Goldfish is where swimmers begin learning freestyle arm action while maintaining a horizontal body position. The goal is to complete four freestyle arm circles with a consistent, coordinated flutter kick. Confidence in movement, coordination, and body alignment are key areas of development.
Duration: 30 minutes
STINGRAYS (Level 5)
Primary and Intermediate School Age
Focus: Stingrays focuses on developing relaxed breathing techniques. This stage requires patience, as mastering proper breathing is key before increasing swim distances. Each lesson includes activities that emphasise body rotation, using short distances to ensure swimmers focus on skill accuracy rather than distance.
Duration: 30 minutes
WHALES (Level 6)
Primary and Intermediate School Age
Focus: Whales level caters for swimmers who have the basics of the breathing action but need fine tuning. At Easyswim, breathing every third stroke is taught to encourage balanced freestyle. Drills and skills practiced in this level are similar to that of ‘Stingrays’ level but are generally performed over greater distance or with greater difficulty.
Duration:
30 minutes
HAMMERHEADS (Level 7)
Primary and Intermediate School Age
Focus: In Hammerheads rhythmic relaxed breathing is maintained while distances are increased with a goal of performing two lengths of correct freestyle and backstroke. The basic movements of breaststroke kick are taught.
Duration: 30 minutes
DOLPHINS (Level 8)
Primary and Intermediate School Age
Focus: The Dolphins level focuses on building endurance. Swimmers will gradually increase their freestyle and backstroke distances while mastering the correct arm action for breaststroke. We also introduce key skills like push-off starts and efficient turning techniques.
Duration: 40 minutes
ORCAS (Level 9)
Primary and Intermediate School Age
Focus: In the Orcas level, swimmers continue to develop their skills by increasing their freestyle and backstroke distances. This is the stage where we introduce the butterfly stroke and further refine breaststroke technique.
Duration: 40 minutes
Mini Sharks (Level 10)
Primary and Intermediate School Age
Focus: Minisharks groups are based at our School Pools and have been established to serve as a transition to the Shark groups we run at Freyberg Pool. They are also a suitable starting point for kids who want to join Swimming Clubs and serve as fitness swimming for kids who just want to develop their swimming further. This non competitive group serves many purposes with structured quality coaching, ensuring continued technique development while encouraging swimmers to challenge themselves with a number of distance and time related objectives. Swimming racing skills along with advanced Surf Life Saving type water skills are also introduced and developed.
Duration: 40 minutes
Next Step: Sharks at Freyberg
For swimmers who have mastered the skills in our Orcas level, our Sharks Programme is the perfect next step. It is for proficient swimmers who want to focus on advanced technique and endurance.
Have A Go Day at Cannons Creek Pool
Three times a year, in terms 2, 3 and 4, Easyswim hosts a fun-filled Have A Go Day at the Cannons Creek 25-metre Pool. These special events are designed for young swimmers to experience the excitement of swim events in a supportive and family-friendly environment.
Children can participate in 25m and 50m events, swimmers receive a ribbon after each swim with their time recorded on it. Swimming events are followed by free swim time and engaging water games including paddle boats, inflatables, have a go at junior water polo. It’s a fantastic opportunity to build confidence, try something new, and enjoy a memorable day with friends and whānau.
Whether your child is new to swimming or looking to challenge themselves in a relaxed setting, Have A Go Day is a great way to encourage participation, celebrate progress, and strengthen a love for being in the water.
Super Swimmer Activities
At Easyswim we want to see kids learn and progress as fast as possible. We know practice makes perfect, so we have developed some at home ‘Super Swimmer’ videos designed to help kids learn and practice swimming skills.
Even if you don’t swim with us feel free to use them, we want to see all kids in our community achieve their swimming potential.
Downloadable Colouring in Sheets
Reinforcing Water Safety
