Splash Co. Benefits
Why Swimming Matters at Every Age
Swimming is a life skill that builds water safety, confidence, strength, focus, and resilience. Every programme at Splash Co has clear milestones so families can track progress. All lessons are 30 minutes to maintain focus. Splash Tots classes are limited to 6 with a parent in the water; Learn-to-Swim, Stroke, and Adult classes maintain a maximum of 4 for individual attention.
We do not perform forced underwater submersion with children. Submersion comes naturally through trust and readiness – we create confidence, not fear.
Quick Glance: Benefits by Programme
Splash Tots
Non-Walking (±6–18 months)
Splash Tots
Walking (±18–36 months)
Learn-to-Swim
Levels 1 to 3
Stroke Introduction & Development
Levels 1 to 4
Adult Learn-to-Swim
Water Aerobics
Splash Tots - Non-Walking
(±6–18 months) No Floatation Aids
- Who it’s for: Babies not yet walking, with a parent/caregiver in the water.
- Aim: Create early water comfort, safety habits, and sensory development in a calm, playful setting.
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Lesson format (30 min):
- Gentle entries and orientation
- Face wetting and water cues
- Assisted back floats and supported movement
- Falling-in and recovery practice on the platform or step
- Songs, toys, and parent-baby bonding activities
- Benefits: Water and body awareness, trust and routine building and water safety.
- Class size and frequency: Up to 6 babies (with parents) · 1–2× per week recommended.
- Progress indicators: Comfortable face wetting; responds to cues; relaxed, longer supported or unassisted back floats.
Splash Tots - Walking
(±18–36 months) No Floatation Aids
- Who it’s for: Confident walkers with a parent/caregiver in the water.
- Aim: Grow independence while reinforcing safety and correct habits, still playful, but with more directed skills.
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Lesson format (30 min):
- Independent entries and safe exits
- Aquatic breathing
- Back floats
- Propulsion
- Vertical and Horizontal rotation
- Retrieval games
- Approach: We encourage Splash Tots students, to become water safe without having to rely on a parents or caregiver.
- Class size and frequency: Up to 6 (with parents) · 1–2× per week.
- Progress indicators: Happy voluntary submersion, turn-and-return to wall, longer back-float tolerance.
Learn-to-Swim
Levels 1 to 3
- Who it’s for: Children ready to move from assisted skills to independent swimming or new swimmers who have never swum before.
- Aim: Build foundational safety and confident movement through the water.
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Core skills by level:
- LTS 1: Safe entries; supported floats and glides; breath control; kick patterns; confidence in shallow and deep areas.
- LTS 2: Streamline, coordinated propulsion; back and front float recovery; short, independent swims
- LTS 3: Consistent body position; rhythmic breathing; basic introduction to first freestyle and backstroke swims.
- Lesson format (30 min): Warm-up games; water safety drills, confidence drills; cool-down.
- Class size and frequency: Up to 4 - 2× per week recommended for momentum.
- Progress indicators: Demonstration of ability to swim safely and recover independently. Progression into basic Stroke Introduction.
Stroke Introduction & Development
Levels 1 to 4
- Who it’s for: Swimmers who can cross the pool and want better technique and endurance.
- Aim: Technical progression across all four strokes with good mechanics.
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Focus by level:
- Stroke 1: Body line, rotation, kick rhythm, breathing basics, arm drills.
- Stroke 2: Timing and coordination for freestyle/backstroke; breaststroke kick pattern.
- Stroke 3: Efficiency turns and push-offs, improved pace control; butterfly drills.
- Stroke 4: Consolidated technique across all strokes; starts/turns; endurance sets; race and goal skills.
- Lesson format (30 min): Technical blocks, drill progressions, short sets, and feedback. We also do ad-hoc skills that are season appropriate.
- Class size and frequency: Up to 4, 2–3× per week for best results.
- Progress indicators: Stroke legality and rhythm, balanced breathing, faster repeatable distances, confident turns/starts.
Adult Learn-to-Swim
- Who it’s for: Adult beginners or returners - nervous non-swimmers to improvers.
- Aim: Overcome fear, gain safety and comfort, then build technique for fitness and life enjoyment.
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Lesson format (30 min):
- Calm water confidence routines
- Floating and balance
- Breathing control and timing
- Propulsion and stroke basics (freestyle/backstroke first)
- Optional technique tune-ups for experienced swimmers
- Treading Water (3 meter deep pool)
- Class size and frequency: Up to 4 · 1–2× per week.
- Outcomes: Confident floating and recovery, easy breathing, relaxed continuous swims, practical water safety for holidays and family time.
Water Aerobics
- Primary benefits: Low-impact cardio & strength.
- Secondary benefits: Balance, joint mobility, posture.
- Class size: 8–12
- Frequency: 2–3×/week.
- Focus: Full-body workouts using natural water resistance; improved mobility, posture, and fitness in a social, supportive setting.
Baby Hydrotherapy
COMING SOON
Gentle aquatic therapy designed for babies from 6 weeks to 12 months.
Delivered in Splash Co’s warm 32 °C hydrotherapy pool, these small, calm sessions support physical and neurological development through carefully guided water movement.
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Primary benefits:
- Relieves tension and colic through gentle, supported floating.
- Encourages early motor control, core strength, and sensory awareness.
- Promotes bonding and emotional connection between baby and caregiver.
- Stimulates balance, coordination, and cognitive growth in a peaceful, therapeutic environment.
- Supports recovery and development for babies born prematurely or with mild muscular tension.
- Structure: 20–25 minute sessions led by trained hydro-instructors; parents always in the water. Gentle guided movements, supported floating, and water massage.
- Class size: Up to 5 babies (with caregiver).
- Frequency: 1–2 × per week.
- Progress: Relaxed body tone, improved head control, longer floating tolerance, visible comfort in water.
