SFQ Swimming

HOW CAN I ENABLE MY CHILD TO EXCEL IN SWIMMING?

Swimming is an essential life skill and should be and can be an enjoyable experience. Here are a few things that you can do as parents to help support and encourage your child’s aquatic experience:

Venture to your local swimming facility as a family – a hotel swimming pool is a great way to spend the day together and will help boost your child’s water confidence
Make bath time fun! Build on water confidence at bath time, with the aid of toys; encourage splashing and putting their faces in the water and encourage ‘blow bubbles’ to mimic their swimming classes
A new swimming costume and a pair of goggles usually goes down well to start the new term
Support the swimming instructor, ask questions and give constructive feedback.
Respect one another always.
Be a part of the journey by watching your child’s swimming lessons each week and see them progress.
Give praise regularly to your child and highlight key achievement milestones.

FOUNDATION

FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT SKILLS

Learn to Swim – 3yrs +

Stage B:

Developing basic safety awareness, the ‘class’ scenario, basic movement skills and water confidence skills. Swimmers will use aids, e.g. floats and woggles.

Stage B+ :

Developing safe entries to the water, including jumping, basic floating, travel and rotation unaided to regain upright positions.

Stage 1:

Flutter kick on front and back, Free style arms without breathe, Tread water in deep water From 10 to 15 Meters

Stage 2:

Free style breath, Simultaneous kicking with arms action and breathing, Introduction to backstroke arms, Introduction to back breast kicking, Stream line position 15 meters.

Stage3:

Free style 25 meters free style , Backstroke 25 meters back , Breaststroke kicking with board + back breast kicking 15 meters.

Stage 4:

Free style turn, 35 meters free style, 25 meters full back stroke , Introduction to breast stroke arms, 25 meters breast stroke.

Stage 5:

Full free style stroke with turn 50 meters free style, Full backstroke with turn 50 meters back , Full breaststroke 25 meters breast , Butterfly kicking.

OBJECTIVES

Upon enrolling on to our Swimming Academy, whether it be the learn to swim programme or the squads programme, we have a commitment to:

Provide all members of the community with an opportunity to learn to swim in a safe, fun and supportive environment

Develop swimmers both mentally and physically

Develop sportsmanship

To provide a ‘sport for life’ and to create an opportunity for a ‘competitive culture’ within swimming in Qatar

To provide pathways for swimmers to pursue, such as competitive swimming, and in the future

Diving, water polo, synchronized swimming and lifesaving skills.

Gharrafa, Gulf English School

REGULAR SWIMMING PROGRAM

AGE GROUP	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THUR	SAT
Variety of Sessions	3:30 PM	3:30 PM	3:30 PM	3:30 PM	3:30 PM	11:00 AM
Variety of Sessions	4:15 PM	4:15 PM	4:15 PM	4:15 PM	4:15 PM	11:45 AM
Variety of Sessions	5:00 PM	5:00 PM	5:00 PM	5:00 PM	5:00 PM	12:30 PM
Variety of Sessions	5:45 PM	5:45 PM	5:45 PM	5:45 PM	5:45 PM	1:15 PM
Variety of Sessions	6:30 PM	6:30 PM	6:30 PM	6:30 PM	6:30 PM	2:00 PM
18 Y/O + (Ladies Only)	7:00 PM	---	7:00 PM	---	---	---
18 Y/O + (Men Only)	---	6:45 PM	---	6:45 PM	---	---

Al Jazi Gardens, Westbay