Friendly Fin Swim Lessons

E-mail:  FriendlyFinSwim@gmail.com
Founded by Allison Woods

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Instructors

Allison Woods

*ARC WSI Certificate (extended until Sept. 30)

Bekah Smith

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Payments due before class or session.  Pay at the club with cash, card, or check (made out to the Culpeper Recreation Club).
Non-members will have to pay a guest fee of $5 per swimmer if their lesson is during pool hours. Thanks!

Sign up for group lessons here

We are working on the group lesson schedule as we go. Please be patient with us as we are a new business!

Sign up for private lessons here

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Pick your lesson

• ​Preschool Aquatics Level 1
• ​Preschool Aquatics Level 2
• Preschool Aquatics Level 3

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• Familiarize children approximately 3 and 5 years old to the aquatic environment and help them acquire rudimentary basic aquatic skills
• Help participants begin to develop positive attitudes and safe practices in and around water
• Prerequisites:  Children should be approximately 3 years old or older
  Lesson Length: 30 minutes
  
  

• Build on and improve skills learned in Preschool Aquatics Level 1
• Increase knowledge of water safety topics introduced in Preschool Aquatics Level 1
• Prerequisites:  Successful demonstration of the Preschool Aquatics Level 1 exit skills
  Lesson Length: ​30 minutes
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• Increase proficiency and build on the basic aquatic skills learned in Preschool Aquatics Levels 1 and 2
• Reinforce water safety concepts and skills introduced in earlier levels and introduce additional water safety topics
• Prerequisites:  Successful demonstration of the Preschool Aquatics Level 2 exit skills
  Lesson Length: 30 minutes

• Parent and Child Aquatics Level 1 (Mommy and Me)
• Parent and Child Aquatics Level 2 (Mommy and Me)

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• Familiarize children between the ages of 6 months and approximately 3 years with the water and teach swimming readiness skills
• Provide safety information for parents and teach techniques parents can use to orient their children to the water
• Prerequisites:  Child must be at least 6 months old, Parent must accompany child to each class
  Lesson Length: 30 minutes

• Improve skills learned in Parent and Child Aquatics Level 1 and teach more advanced skills
• Continue to build on water safety knowledge
• Prerequisites:  Comfort level with skills taught in Parent and Child Aquatics Level 1, Parent must accompany child to each class
  Lesson Length: 30 minutes

• Learn to Swim Level 1
• Learn to Swim Level 2
• Learn to Swim Level 3
• Learn to Swim Level 4
• Learn to Swim Level 5 & 6

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• Introduction to water skills
• Orient participants to the aquatic environment and help them gain basic aquatic skills.
• Help participants begin to develop positive attitudes and safe practices around water
• Prerequisites:  Participants usually start at about 5-6 years of age
  Lesson Length: 40 minutes

• Fundamental Aquatic Skills
• Build on the basic aquatic skills and water safety skills and concepts learned in Level 1
• Prerequisites:  Successful demonstration of the Learn-to-Swim Level 1 exit skills
  Lesson Length: 40 minutes

• Stroke Development
• Build on the skills learned in Levels 1 and 2 to help participants achieve basic water competency in a pool environment
• Prerequisites: Successful demonstration of the Learn-to-Swim Level 2 exit skills
  Lesson Length: 40 minutes

• Stroke Improvement
• Improve participants’ proficiency in performing the swimming strokes that were introduced in Level 3
• Prerequisites:  Successful demonstration of the Learn-to-Swim Level 3 exit skills
  Lesson Length: 40 minutes

• Stroke Refinement
• Help participants refine their performance of all six swimming strokes (i.e., front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, breaststroke, elementary backstroke and sidestroke)
• Prerequisites:  Successful demonstration of the Learn-to-Swim Level 4 exit skills assessment
   Lesson Length: 40 minutes
  
  * Learn-to-Swim level 6 (swimming and skill proficiency: personal water safety or fitness swimmer per request)