L'IL DIPPERS: PARENTED PROGRAM
- Splashers, 3 to 18 months
- Introduction to water and water safety
- Holding and assisting child
- Entering and exiting the water safely
- Learning through games and songs
- Splashing and kicking
- Getting face wet
- Assisted front and back floats
- Front and back towing
- Introduction to water and water safety
- Bubblers, 19 months to 3 years
- Water safety awareness
- Assisting and supporting child
- Entering and exiting water safely
- Learning through games and songs
- Getting face wet in stages
- Blowing bubbles and bobbing
- Assisted front and back floats
- Towing with arm and feet movement
- Water safety awareness
- Bobbers, 19 months to 3 years
- Activities to build confidence and comfort in water
- Water safety, swimming rules and lifeguard’s role
- Entering and exiting pool assisted and unassisted
- Introduction to personal floatation devices
- Getting face wet in stages
- Blowing bubbles and bobbing
- Retrieving object in shallow water
- Assisted front and back floats and glides
- Activities to build confidence and comfort in water
L'IL DIPPERS: UNPARENTED PROGRAM
- Bobbers, 3 to 5 years
- Activities to build confidence and comfort in the water
- Water safety, swimming rules and lifeguard’s role
- Entering and exiting pool assisted and unassisted
- Introduction to personal floatation devices
- Getting face wet in stages
- Blowing bubbles and bobbing
- Retrieving object in shallow water
- Assisted front and back floats and glides
- Activities to build confidence and comfort in the water
- Floaters, 3 to 5 years
- Basic safety rules and sounds
- Calling for help
- Jump into chest-deep water unassisted
- Bobbing unassisted
- Open eyes underwater
- Unassisted front and back floats and recovery
- Surface support in chin-deep water for 10 seconds
- Unassisted front glide
- Front and back glides with buoyant aid for three metres
- Basic safety rules and sounds
- Gliders, 3 to 5 years
- Introduction to boating safety
- Deep water awareness
- Jump into deep water assisted
- Bob eight times in chest-deep water
- Hold wall and kick while blowing bubbles
- Unassisted front and back float and recovery in chest-deep water
- Introduction to deep water surface support
- Assisted side glide with kick, both sides
- Front and back swim using arms and legs, for five metres
- Introduction to boating safety
- Divers, 3 to 5 years
- Boating safety
- Awareness of hazards in other bodies of water
- Introduction to side breathing
- Unassisted side glide
- Surface support in deep water for 10 seconds
- Front and back glide with kick in deep water
- Front and back swim for 10 metres
- Boating safety
- Surfers, 3 to 5 years
- HELP and HUDDLE positions
- Introduction to ice safety
- Introduction to basic reaching assists
- Diving into deep water unassisted
- Retrieving object in deep water
- Surface support in deep water for 30 seconds
- Front and back swim for 15 metres
- Front or back somersault
- HELP and HUDDLE positions
- Dippers, 3 to 5 years
- Boating safety
- Introduction to throwing assists without a line
- Standing and surface dives
- Jumps from a height
- Deep water activities with and without support
- Surface support in deep water for 45 seconds
- Underwater swim
- Front and back swim for 25 metres
- Sculling and finning skills
- Boating safety
