Swimming Lessons

Enroll your child in our Swimming Sea Animals program online.

One of the most rewarding parts of having a pool is watching a child learn to swim. As an optional service, we provide your children with swimming lessons. Our classes contain no more than four (4) students to ensure that all children receive the attention they need to become proficient swimmers. As well as delivering the lessons, each instructor handles class registration, certificates and communication with parents. We hope that if you are looking for any of these swimming pool services in Houston, you will contact us. Remember, our goal is to take care of all your pool headaches while you relax by the pool. Our instructors are seventeen (17) years of age or older and all instructors have completed over 46 hours of training through the American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor course.

Session Information

Group and Private Lessons are held in sessions that last for three (3) weeks. Each structured class has a set limit of students that may attend to maximize the effectiveness of our swimming lesson program. Classes are 30 minutes in length. Students may attend classes Tuesday/Thursday or Wednesday/Friday.

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Swimming Sea Animals Programs

Group Lessons:
$60 per participant per session; 5 lessons (maximum 4 children per group)

Semi-Private Lessons:
$100 per participant per session; 5 lessons (minimum & maximum of 2 children per group)

Private Lessons:
$125 per participant per session; 5 lessons (or $40 per participant per single lesson)

Private Lessons for Adults:
$150 per participant per session; 5 lessons

IPAP Lessons:
$120 for 6 classes (minimum of 4 pairs & maximum of 6 pairs)

IPAP Class is for children ages 2 and younger. This class is designed for parents and children. The parent will be in the water with the child and enjoy a number of fun activities with the goal of getting your child comfortable in the water and ready to learn to swim.

Five Levels of Progression

Clown Fish
Level 1

Help students feel comfortable in the water. Level 1 participants learn to; For a child who has developed a fear of the water through a bad water experience or who has difficulties due to parent separation anxiety. This class will teach the child that the water can be fun and safe by using toys, stories, and water safety rules. They will be taught to submerge mouth, nose and eyes breath control, front and back float, front crawl (beginning freestyle), elementary back stroke, and how to enter and exit water safely.

Sea Horses
Level 2

Level 2 gives students success with fundamental skills. Students will learn and become comfortable entering water by stepping or jumping from the side, opening eyes underwater pick up a submerged object, rolling over from front to back, back to front, learning to swim on their side. Students will continue with exiting water safely using a ladder or side float on their front and back. Students will also learn to tread water using arm and leg motions, move in water while using a float, submerge entire head, perform front and back glide and swim on front and back using combined strokes.

Sting Rays
Level 3

Level 3 builds on the skills in Level 2 through additional guided practice. Level 3 participants learn to:

• Jump into deep water from the side
• Bob with the head fully submerged
• Perform a survival float and butterfly-kick
• Demonstrate proper body motion
• Dive from kneeling or standing position
• Use rotary breathing in horizontal position
• Change from horizontal to vertical position on front and back
• Submerge and retrieve an object
• Perform front and back glide
• Perform front and back crawl
• Perform a reaching assist

Turtles
Level 4

Level 4 develops confidence in the skills learned and improves other aquatic skills. Participants learn to perform a shallow dive or dive from stride position, perform open turns on front and back using any stroke and develop and critique strokes.

Sharks
Level 5

Level 5 provides further coordination and refinement of strokes. Level 5 participants learn to perform the following:

• Tread water with two different kinds of strokes
• Standing dive
• Butterfly Front flip turn
• Breaststroke
• Backstroke flip turn
• Elementary backstroke
• Tuck surface dive
• Front and back crawl
• Sidestroke Shallow dive
• Glide two body lengths & begin any front stroke

Make-Up Lesson Policy

Deferring of a Lesson

QAPM will only cancel a lesson if there is thunder/lightning in the area, if it is raining too hard to safely conduct the class or if the pool is closed due to equipment malfunction. In the event of one of these instances occurring the instructors are responsible for notifying the participant and parent or guardian by telephone. If the participant does not receive a phone call they should arrive at the pool to confirm the lesson is in fact being canceled.

Rescheduling

If lesson is canceled due to "incliment weather" or pool closure due to "equipment malfunction" the instructor will schedule a make up lesson with the participants or parents of participants. Make-up days are Mondays or at the instructors earliest available time. If student misses class due to personal matter they are only allow ONE free make-up lesson before they forfeit the lesson completely with NO REFUND.