Last updated: August 2024

Jill’s Swim School

Teaching life skills
Masterton Palmerston North

Jill’s Swim School

Teaching life skills

Pre-school classes (2 - 5 years)

With our competent instruction, your child will gain confidence and have fun while developing stroke skills and gaining a respect of the water.


Classes are 20 minutes in duration.

Class Group

Objective of Class

Level 1: The Tadpole

Gaining confidence and developing floating skills.

Level 3: The Frog

Gaining confidence with face down in the water and back floats.

Level 4: The Starfish

Advancing floating skills - from both armbands, to single armband and then to floating unaided. Freestyle arm stroking is also taught.

Level 5: The Crab

Improving the freestyle arm action, with an introduction to breathing and diving.

Level 6: The Sea Otter

Starting to swim freestyle by self. Starting to roll and breathe with little help from the coach.

Level 7: The Fish

Swimming lengths (10m) of backstroke and freestyle. Progressing from large armband, to small, to no armband. Introduced also to breaststroke, butterfly and diving.