This is the foundational stage where your child's transformative swimming journey begins. Our first priority is to build a positive and trusting relationship with the water. In the safe and familiar environment of your home pool, our instructors focus on creating a joyful experience, allowing your child to explore the water's wonders at their own pace and build a core of confidence that will last a lifetime.

Core Skills & Outcomes

• Building Water Comfort: Guiding your child from initial hesitation to happily putting their face in the water and achieving full, relaxed submersion.

• Mastering Breath Control: Developing the essential skill of calmly controlling their breath upon submersion.

• This prevents water intake and builds the confidence required for learning to exhale underwater.

• Learning Foundational Safety: Mastering the ability to float independently on their front and back—the most critical self-rescue skills—and learning to recover to a safe position.

• Developing Basic Propulsion: Introducing the first feelings of movement through water with effective flutter kicks ("Aeroplane Kick") and coordinated paddling.

By the end of this stage, your child will have the confidence to enter the water, move independently to the wall, and feel truly at home in the pool.