Aura Leisure Grove Island
Aura Swim Academy | Grove Island, Limerick
Kids Swimming Lessons in Limerick
At the Aura Swim Academy, our goal is not only to teach your children to swim, but to help them develop an understanding of the water. We believe that learning to swim can be fun and with our 10 levels, we cater for all ages and ability. Simply fill in your details below for your free Swim Assessment and we’ll contact you with further details as soon as possible.
At Aura Leisure Limerick, we believe children’s swimming lessons should be fun and teach them the necessary skills in the water. We also aim to develop their confidence and safety while swimming through creative methods of instruction, a fun and positive learning environment, and professionally trained instructors.
If you’re not sure what level of swimming lessons your child should be placed in, take our totally free swim assessment by contacting us today. This will help us determine your child’s needs, confidence in the water, and skills that need to be developed.
Junior Ducklings
Ducklings is the introductory level to our Swim Academy and here the aim is to teach your child safe entry and exit from the pool, along with teaching them to fully submerge their face, all while having fun in the pool environment.
Skills Learned:
- Safe entry and exits
- Face wetting and blowing bubbles in the water
- Star fish floats on front and back
- Movement through the water
- Understanding class structure
- Fun games
Teeny Turtles
In Turtles, we introduce independent floating on both the child’s front and back. The process of helping children to gain balance is a key element here. From there the correct arm, head and leg positions are taught.
Skills Learned:
- Safe entry and exits
- Face wetting and blowing bubbles in the water
- Star fish floats on front and back
- Introduction to front crawl and back crawl leg action
- Submerging and breathing out under the water
Slippy Seahorses
In Seahorses our main focus is to perfect both front crawl and back crawl kicking in the learner pool then advancing this to the main pool where confidence is gained.
Skills Learned:
- Safe entries and exits
- Introduction to the large pool
- Submersion
- Floating on front, back and rotations
- Basic arm movement on front and back
- Fun games
- Introduction to treading water
Shiny Starfish
At this stage, confidence in the main pool has been achieved. Safety is now a focus; we teach your child to tread water and swim without flotation aids on both front crawl and back crawl with arms.
Skills Learned:
- Submersion
- Treading water
- Mushroom float
- Front crawl – introducing arms
- Back crawl – introducing arms
- Fun games
Bubbly Goldfish
Breathing, which is one of the most difficult skills in swimming, is now incorporated. We will teach your child to breathe unilaterally while maintaining good body position. Children will also be introduced to the deep end of the pool where treading water is advanced from the Starfish level.
Skills Learned:
- Full stroke in front crawl
- Full stroke in back crawl
- Introduction to breaststroke legs action
- Treading water
- Surface dives
- Handstand in the water
Speedy Swordfish
Now in the deep end of the pool, we focus on retaining the skills that children have learned in Goldfish but in water that is 1.5m deep and upwards. The next phase will be to teach breaststroke leg kick with correct foot position to gain glide while keeping the feet under the water.
Skills Learned:
- Full stroke in front crawl and back crawl
- Breaststroke leg action
- Introduction to Dolphin Leg action
- Sitting dives
- Tumbles in the water
Flying Fish
Flying Fish is a level that we have introduced to help break down the strokes for children and have one main aim in each level. The main aim at this stage is to complete breaststroke with the arm movement and to introduce the correct breathing technique for this.
Skills Learned:
- Full stroke in front crawl and back crawl
- Breaststroke full stroke including timing
- Introduction to Butterfly
- Introducing to Diving
- Tumbles
- Treading water
Splashing Dolphins
At this stage children are quite confident on the three main swimming strokes. A continuation of breaststroke breathing takes place and the butterfly stroke is also focused on. Children in the higher levels of swim academy still need to have fun and there are some fun skill games taught!
Skills Learned:
- Improving: Front Crawl, Back Crawl, Breaststroke
- Butterfly – full stroke
- Butterfly under the water
- Introduction to tumble turns
Lightning Stingrays
Here the fine-tuning starts to take place on all strokes focusing on the small but very important techniques to enhance ability. Fun and games are still evident with snorkelling, tumble turns and diving one of the main focuses.
Skills Learned:
- Improving all four strokes
- Focus on increased distance and stamina
- Butterfly under the water
- Introduction to starts and turns
Diving Sharks
Sharks is the highest level of our swim academy where we aim to build stamina over all four strokes and introduce correct individual medley swimming along with furthering your child’s lifesaving skills.
Skills Learned:
- Improving all four strokes
- Focus on increased distance and stamina
- Starts and turns on all four strokes
- Individual Medley
Aura Swim Academy FAQs
Swim Academy lessons take place in our learner pool or main pool, depending on what level your child is swimming at. Levels 1 through 3 will take place in the learner pool, and your child will be introduced to the main pool in Level 4. At Level 6, they will be introduced to the deep end of the main pool.
There is a minimum age requirement of 4 years old, but after this, there is no age requirement for each swim level. We believe that every child advances differently and that children should be allowed to go at their own pace, For children below the age of 4, check out our Swim Tots or Swim Baby Page for more information.
Appropriate swimwear and goggles are required, a towel and a smile are recommended! Please also let your instructor know if your child wears glasses or has any hearing difficulties. We also ask that you inform us of any health or learning concerns prior to swimming lessons.
We welcome all parents to watch their children’s swim lessons. We ask that parents remain seated and not to distract their children during the lessons. We also advise that parents not go onto the pool deck unless asked to by the teacher. This is so that everyone remains safe and children can make the most of their swim lessons.
We highly recommend that your child practices skills in between their lessons. This will help solidify the concepts taught and allow them to learn new things more quickly, as well as help them feel comfortable and confident in the water.
– We assess children on an ongoing basis each week.
– We evaluate the learners progress throughout the course.
– We observe and record the learners progress as we are teaching.
– The skills required to move to the next level need to be performed over a course of weeks to ensure the child in competent, comfortable and confident.
– Our priority is the needs of the child and that they learn at their own pace in a fun and unpressurised environment.
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Grove Island Pool Timetable
| Tuesday | ||
|---|---|---|
| 06:00 – 07:55 | Member and Public Lane | |
| 08:00 – 08:55 | Public Swim | |
| 09:00 – 09:55 | Public Swim | |
| 10:00 – 14:00 | Members Lane Swim | |
| 14:00 – 15:20 | Public Swim | |
| 15:30 – 20:00 | Pool Closed | |
| 20:00 – 20:55 | Adult Only | |