Swimskool Mount Gambier is a sports club located in the City of Mount Gambier, Australia. The club offers various swimming programmes for both children and adults, with a focus on water safety, skill development, and fun.
For children, Swimskool Mount Gambier offers programmes such as Water Babies, Aquatots, and Guppies. Water Babies is a parent and baby/toddler class designed to develop water safety and awareness skills at their own pace. Children will learn skills such as submersions, water orientation, breath control, floating, and propulsion activities in a stimulating environment. Aquatots prepares children for the Guppies programme, gradually working towards swimming without a parent.
Guppies aims to introduce children to an aquatic programme that builds water confidence, teaches basic skills of freestyle and backstroke, and emphasises personal water safety. Swimmers are grouped by ability levels, which are identified by colour-coded caps. These programmes provide a balance of independence and fun for children aged 6 months to 5 years.
For school-age children, Swimskool Mount Gambier offers a progressive 6-stage programme to teach them how to be safe and competent swimmers. Children will learn various swim strokes including freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and sidestroke. The programme focuses on building endurance, mastering new skills, and promoting correct technique. Each stage has a specific set of skills to be learned and swimmers will progress through the stages with the guidance of skilled instructors.
Swimmers in the school-age programme will begin with the Starfish stage, where they will be introduced to movement and confidence in the water. They will learn basic freestyle coordination, backglide floating, roll-overs, and prone glide. Progressing to the Seahorse levels, swimmers will continue to build on freestyle skills, while also being introduced to backstroke, mushroom float, and duck diving. The Dory stage will focus on refining freestyle and backstroke skills, introducing lifesaving backstroke kick, and teaching skills such as skulling, tread water, somersaults, and dolphin kicks.
The Bluefin stage builds endurance and technique in freestyle and backstroke, while also introducing breaststroke, butterfly kick, and tumble turns. Finally, the Dolphin stage refines all four swim strokes, increases endurance, and teaches skills such as treading water, skulling, and proficient tumble turns.
Swimskool Mount Gambier provides a safe and inclusive environment for all swimmers. The instructor ratio varies depending on the programme, ranging from 1 instructor per 8 children for Water Babies to 1 instructor per 4 swimmers for Guppies. The club ensures that the pool temperature is kept at a comfortable 30 degrees Celsius and provides all necessary swim aids. Goggles are recommended for swimmers to enhance their experience in the water.
To learn more about Swimskool Mount Gambier or to enrol in their programmes, interested individuals can visit the club's website or contact their friendly staff. Swimskool Mount Gambier is dedicated to helping individuals of all ages develop their swimming skills, build water confidence, and have fun in the process.