Cockermouth Leisure Centre Pool
Swimming Instruction with Carlisle Leisure Limited
When you enrol your child on one of our ‘Learn to Swim’ programmes you can be assured that our swimming instructors are A.S.A. qualified and are committed to ensuring your child progresses through the ASA National Plan for Teaching Swimming, (NPTS) as far as they wish to go.
Our Pools are committed to providing the continued development of children of all ages and abilities and the plan has been developed by the A.S.A. to provide a template for learn to swim schemes.
The NPTS is a comprehensive, integrated, progressive teaching programme based upon sound technical and educational principles. The NPTS aims to provide a degree of consistency throughout the country with regard to what we expect swimmers to do and how we expect them to do it.
THE MAIN AIMS OF SWIMMING DEVELOPMENT WITHIN CLL
- Developing a wide range of skills
- Emphasising the importance of initial orientation to water
- Developing high reliability through repetition, revision and consolidation
- Identifying the correct standards of skill performance
- Providing assessment against clearly identified outcomes
- Providing a direct link to A.S.A. awards scheme
Phases
The NPTS is made up of six phases. These are:
- Phase 1
- Non Swimmers
- Phase 2
- Beginners
- Phace 3
- Improvers 1
- Phase 4
- Improvers 2
- Phase 5
- Advanced 1
- Phase 6
- Advanced 2
There are 2 levels within each phase which means the children need to complete 12 levels altogether.
Once enrolled your child will be continually assessed during the lessons. On week seven you will be given an enrolment slip indicating the class to which he/she should re-enrol for the next block of lessons. On completion of phase 4 your child will have reached a standard to progress to other aquatic activities such as swimming club, synchronised swimming, water polo etc.
Non Swimmers 1
Aim: An introduction to water and the development of water confidence
In order to move up to the next level your child will be able to:
- Take instruction
- Move freely with and without swimming aids
Non Swimmers 2
Aim: The further development of confidence in the water and being able to move through the water without swimming aids.
In order to move up to the next level your child will be able to:
- Travel 5m using alternating leg movements on their front and back with no aids
- Push and glide with their face in the water and with no aids
- Travel 5m on their front and their back using their arms and legs
- Climb out of the pool
- Totally submerge in the water and identify an object
- Kick 5m using a simultaneous action
- Demonstrate a motionless float for 5 seconds
Beginners 1
Aim: To build a sound foundation on those aspects of watermanship. To be completely at home on and under water and to be able to use different methods of propulsion.
In order to move up to the next level you child will be able to:
- Travel 10m on their front using their arms and legs
- With their face in the water, breathe to the side 6 times and to the front 6 times
- Using a breaststroke type kick with their feet turned out, kick 5m on their front without a float
- Jump into the water
- Kick 5m whilst on their back with alternating leg action, legs long and toes pointed with hands by their sides
- Submerge for 5 seconds
Beginners 2
Aim: As beginners 1 but to also develop technique.
In order to move up to the next level you child will be able to:
- Kick 5m on their front and back using a dolphin undulating action with their toes pointed
- Kick 5m on their front with their arms extended using an alternating action with long legs and toes pointed
- Travel 10m on their back using their arms and legs
- Standing with their shoulders underwater, demonstrate breast stroke arms
- Pick up an object from 0.9m with both hands
- Hold a tuck float for 10 seconds
Improvers 1
Aim: Using the main swimming strokes with emphasis on good streamline and breathing control. Developing a range of aquatic skills.
In order to move up to the next level you child will be able to:
- Swim 10m front crawl and back crawl with basic technique and regular breathing
- Kick 10m on their front with dolphin action
- Swim 10m breaststroke with basic technique and regular breathing
- Feet and head first, surface dive with complete submersion
- Tread water for 15 seconds, include two 360 degree turns in both directions
- Push and glide underwater through a hoop covering a distance of 5 metres
- Kick 10 metres front crawl with arms extended and 10 metres back crawl with arms extended
- Swim 10m breast stroke with or without float
Improvers 2
Aim: Consolidate aquatic skills. Develop correct kicking and pulling techniques and to swim confidently using basic techniques.
In order to move up to the next level you child will be able to:
- Kick 20 metres efficiently using float
- Kick 20 metres with efficient back crawl leg action with arms extended and no float
- Swim 25 metres back stroke, front crawl and back crawl using an efficient technique
- Straddle jump entry
- Push and glide forward somersault
- Swim 20 metres using butterfly kick – 5 metres underwater and 15 metres at surface
- Swim 10m using basic butterfly technique
- Demonstrate a hand touch turn for front crawl covering a distance of 5m before and after turn
Advanced 1
Aim: To develop a wider range of aquatic skills. To develop swimming strokes with efficient technique.
In order to move up to the next level you child will be able to:
- Swim continuously for 50 metres on each of two strokes showing efficient technique
- Swim 25 metres on other two strokes with 20 seconds rest after 25m
- Kick 50m on front or back crawl (float for front, arms extended for back)
- Kick 25 metres breast stroke and butterfly (floats for breast stoke arms extended for butterfly)
- Correct turn for butterfly, breaststroke, back crawl and front crawl. Complete 25m on each stroke with appropriate turn
- 4 widths any stroke using pace clock for start times and rest periods
Advanced 2
Aim: To further develop the main strokes and early introduction to competitive swimming.
In order to move up to the next level you child will be able to:
- Swim continuously for 10 minutes using two competitive strokes, changing each length alternating and simultaneous
- 4 x 50 metres front crawl with 15 seconds rest
- 4 x 20 metre back stroke or butterfly counting strokes. 20 seconds rest
- From racing start demonstrate into medley efficient technique
- Show front Crawl, Breast stroke and back crawl racing starts