Swimming Tuition

Aqua-tots/Non-swimmers – Red Penguin 2 ½ - 5 yrs - Complete Beginners. This is designed for children of pre school age where water skills are attained through play, with a high emphasis placed on enjoyment and water confidence. The introduction of the three main strokes is implemented at this stage. Junior Tuition – White Penguin 5 yrs + or ability to swim 10m front & back. This is designed for those children who have already started at school and are ready to embark on a more structured and formal lesson. They will concentrate on a range of water skills and basic development of the three main strokes. Junior Tuition – Blue Penguin Must be able to swim 25m, basic frontcrawl, backstroke and breaststroke and be confident in deep water and able to submerge. Stroke techniques are improved and new water skills are introduced. Junior Tuition – Yellow Penguin Must be able to swim 50m, efficient frontcrawl and backstroke, basic breaststroke and butterfly. Stroke techniques are improved through the use of whole, part, whole practices. Personal survival skills are also introduced. Junior Tuition – Green Penguin Must be able to swim 100m, effective front and backstroke, efficient breaststroke and butterfly, good tumble turn and have diving knowledge. Personal survival skills are continued to a higher level. Adult Tuition We offer a range of lessons, which will suit the needs of any adult wishing to learn or improve their techniques, such as the “It’s never too late to learn!” one hour lesson. OCL Active membership now includes FREE “learn to swim” opportunities. If you are aged over 16 and cannot swim, lessons are included up until you can competently swim 10 metres. This offer is open to all annual and direct debit members. Contact your local Swim Coordinator or Reception will provide details and enrolment in course of lessons and enrolment details, places are limited so don’t miss out! Who is this session for? • 14yrs + Masters This is a coached open training session for adults wishing to improve their swimming a training environment. The sessions are varied from low intensity aerobic and technical development to race pace and speed work. The training is ideal for competitive masters, tri-athletes or those wishing to keep fit in a professional and social environment. Who is this session for? • 16yrs +

Weekly sessions and holiday activities are offered to give a flavour of what’s on offer. Diving courses start at the foundation level and then move to the 1 metre and 3 metre boards. As well as diving in the water, land based activities are undertaken. Beginner sessions are 30 minutes. Improver sessions are 45 minutes. Sessions available are Tuesday - Friday evenings and Saturday mornings. ‘Me & My Dad (or mum) diving’ sessions are scheduled throughout the year so that children and parents can learn to dive together. Adult learn to dive sessions are 1 hour available Tuesday & Saturday. Contact: - Louise Bishop 0161 621 3233 Who is this session for? • Confident 50metre swimmer in deep water • 6yrs +

Where possible, Oldham Community Leisure Ltd will do its utmost to provide and ensure swimmers with a disability are able to access swimming, swimming tuition and coaching whether this is an integrated or an individual session. We currently have swimmers with a disability who have represented the Advanced Training Scheme in the National Swimming competition. Teaching and coaching swimmers who have a disability is no different to teaching and coaching non-disabled swimmers. The basic principles of BLABT (Body position, Legs, Arms, Breathing, Timing) still apply and it is merely a case of adjusting and adapting the learning and training process according to the swimmers\' abilities. Only from a health and safety point of view is it important to acknowledge what the specific impairment factors are.