Swim Lessons

Fairway Farms is offering swim lessons to our members for the 2024 season!!  Lessons are available for children of all abilities and ages 4 & up. The lessons will be taught by our amazing Fairway lifeguards and follow American Red Cross Intro to Water Skills (Level 1) & Fundamental Water Skills (Level 2) guidelines. 

We are creating a new lesson program that will be more geared towards developing better stroke technique, turns & starts and preparing for the swim team. Class sizes will be limited to provide a safe, manageable student-teacher ratio: 

  • Intro to Water Skills & Fundamental Water Skills: Maximum of 12 students for two instructors.
  • Beginning Stroke Development, Intermediate Stroke Technique and Advanced Swimmer: Maximum of 10 students for one instructor. 

Classes will run Monday through Thursday. We will use Friday as a make-up day only if we must cancel due to the weather.  Registration will open and the registration link will be emailed out on May 20th.  The cost will be $65 per person which can be paid at the front desk.

Session 1: June 10th – June 21st  

Intro to Water Skills (Level 1) – 10:10am to 10:55am

Fundamental Water Skills (Level 2) – 10:10am to 10:55am

 Beginning Stroke Development – 10:45am to 11:40am 

Intermediate Stroke Technique – 10:45am to 11:40am

Advanced Swimmer / Swim Team   – 10:45am to 11:40am

Session 2: June 24th – July 5th   

Intro to Water Skills (Level 1) – 10:10am to 10:55am

Fundamental Water Skills (Level 2) – 10:10am to 10:55am

 Beginning Stroke Development – 10:45am to 11:40am 

Intermediate Stroke Technique – 10:45am to 11:40am

Advanced Swimmer / Swim Team   – 10:45am to 11:40am

Session 3: July 8th – July 19th

Intro to Water Skills (Level 1) – 10:10am to 10:55am

Fundamental Water Skills (Level 2) – 10:10am to 10:55am

 Beginning Stroke Development – 10:45am to 11:40am 

Intermediate Stroke Technique – 10:45am to 11:40am

Advanced Swimmer / Swim Team   – 10:45am to 11:40am

Session 4: July 22nd – August 2nd 

Intro to Water Skills (Level 1) – 10:10am to 10:55am

Fundamental Water Skills (Level 2) – 10:10am to 10:55am

 Beginning Stroke Development – 10:45am to 11:40am 

Intermediate Stroke Technique – 10:45am to 11:40am

Advanced Swimmer / Swim Team   – 10:45am to 11:40am

Level Descriptions

Level 1: Introduction to Water Skills

Level Objective: Designed to orient participants to the aquatic environment and to help them gain basic water skills. Level Prerequisites: Must be four (4) years of age.

Learning Objectives:

• Enter and exit water using ladder, steps, or side

• Blow bubbles through mouth and nose

• Bobbing

• Open eyes under water and retrieve submerged objects

• Front and back glides and floats

• Recover to vertical position

• Roll from front to back and back to front

• Tread water using arm and hand actions

• Alternating and simultaneous leg actions on front and back (Kicks)

• Alternating and simultaneous arm actions on front and back (Pulls)

• Combined arm and leg actions on front and back (Free/Back)

• Plus, age-appropriate water safety topics

Level 2: Fundamental Water Skills

Level Objective: Builds on basic water skills and water safety skills and concepts learned in Introduction to Water Skills.  Level Prerequisites: Introduction to Water Skills certificate or demonstrate all completion requirements in Introduction to Water Skills.

Learning Objectives:

• Enter and exit water by stepping or jumping from the side

• Fully submerge, holding breath and utilize bubbles from nose

• Bobbing

• Rotary breathing

• Open eyes under water and retrieve submerged objects

• Front, dead man float and ball float

• Front and back glides and floats (Head & Body position)

• Recover to vertical position

• Roll from front to back and back to front

• Change direction of travel while swimming on front or back

• Tread water using arm and leg actions

• Combined arm and leg actions on front and back (Free / Back)

• Sculling action

• Plus, age-appropriate water safety topics

Beginning Stroke Development (formally Level 3) 

Level Objective: Start building full understanding of the competitive strokes (Free, Back, Breast & Fly)

Level Prerequisites:  Fundamental Water Skills certificate or demonstrate all completion requirements in Fundamental Water Skills. (They should be able to swim rudimentary stroke of combined arm and leg actions on both front and back for width of the pool.)

Learning Objectives:

•    Enter water by jumping from the side, fully submerging, and recovering

•    Bobbing while moving toward safety

•    Survival float / Back float / Tread Water

•    Change from vertical to horizontal position on front and back

•    Introduction Stroke Technique Work

  • Streamline on Front/Back
  • Flutter Kick on front/back
  • Dolphin kicks on front/back/side
  • Breaststroke kick
  • Free (rotary breathing) and backstroke
  • Introduction to Breaststroke and Butterfly

•    Introduce Headfirst entries from the side in sitting and kneeling positions

•    Plus, age-appropriate water safety topics

Intermediate Stroke Technique (formally Level 4) 

Level Objective: Seeks to improve participants’ proficiency in performing the strokes that were introduced in Beginning Stroke Development.  Participants perform these strokes with increased proficiency and can swim them for greater distances. Level Prerequisites: Beginning Stroke Development certificate or demonstrate all completion requirements in Beginning Stroke Development. (They should be comfortable swimming the length of the pool on both front and back as well as know free with rotary breathing.)

Learning Objectives:

  • Intermediate Stroke Technique Work
  • Underwater work / Streamline 
  • Flutter Kick on front/back (Working good head & body position)
  • Dolphin kicks on front/back/side
  • Breaststroke kick
  • Free and backstroke Drills
  • Breaststroke and Butterfly Drills
  • Free & Backstroke turns and Open Turns
  • Starts – use the five-step process of teaching starts (sitting, kneeling, compact, stride & shallow angle)
  • Plus, age-appropriate water safety topics

Advanced Swimmer / Swim Team (formally Level 5 & 6)

Level Objective: To refine strokes and turns so students swim with more ease, efficiency, power, and smoothness over greater distances. Level Prerequisites: Intermediate Stroke Technique certificate or demonstrate all completion requirements in Intermediate Stroke Technique.

Learning Objectives:

  • Continue Stroke Technique Skills

•     Increase endurance by swimming the following strokes:

  • Underwater (streamline)
  • Freestyle
  • Backstroke 
  • Butterfly
  • Breaststroke
  • IM (Fly, Back, Breast, Free)

•     Demonstrate the following turns while swimming:

  • Free flip turn
  • Backstroke flip turn
  • Breaststroke Open turn
  • Butterfly Open turn
  • IM Exchange (Fly/Back ; Back/Breast ; Breast/Free)

•     Demonstrate etiquette with circle swimming

•     Demonstrate various training techniques such as interval training and aquatic exercise

  • Introduce training equipment used in swimming.

•    Use pace clock and use training equipment

•    Calculate target heart rate