Our Learn-to-Swim Programs in Petrie
Our baby classes are for children aged 3 months to 7 months old.
At Family Aquatics, we encourage swimming lessons early on to introduce your child to water which gives them a head start to their swimming journey. We focus on water familiarisation, conditioning and acceptance through a range of interactive songs and rhyme.
Our qualified instructors, teach parents/guardians from the very beginning about the variety of positioning holds and techniques to encourage their child/rens independence. With a wealth of knowledge our team brings, our instructors always explain each skill set, why it’s necessary and demonstrate how to execute it. The baby classes explore a range of skills such as moving through the water, buoyancy, rolling from front to back as well as building a connection with their parent/guardians and instructor.
Our goal is for you and your baby to have an enjoyable and fun experience by using sensory balls, interactive games and song, all which contribute to a certain skill set.
Our Infant classes are for children aged 8months – 12months.
The aim of this class is to continue to educate families on the correct techniques and holding positions for their little ones who are developing strong mobility skills. Your swim instructor will guide you from the very beginning and explain the purpose of the activity.
There is a continued focus on water conditioning and building your child confidence through a variety of interactive and social activities. We focus on floating, kicking, reaching and recognising basic commands. We specifically tailor our lessons to achieve these skills through songs and rhyme as well as using sensory and colourful equipment to engage your child. Further more we encourage a diverse range of verbal commands which contribute to your child’s muscle memory
Water safety is another important aspect of our infant lessons. Both you and your child will be taught a safety exit and a controlled fall in as well as reaching for the designated safe zone.
Our Infant classes are for children aged 8months – 12months.
The aim of this class is to continue to educate families on the correct techniques and holding positions for their little ones who are developing strong mobility skills. Your swim instructor will guide you from the very beginning and explain the purpose of the activity.
There is a continued focus on water conditioning and building your child confidence through a variety of interactive and social activities. We focus on floating, kicking, reaching and recognising basic commands. We specifically tailor our lessons to achieve these skills through songs and rhyme as well as using sensory and colourful equipment to engage your child. Further more we encourage a diverse range of verbal commands which contribute to your child’s muscle memory
Water safety is another important aspect of our infant lessons. Both you and your child will be taught a safety exit and a controlled fall in as well as reaching for the designated safe zone.
Our Toddler Two class, aims for children of ages 2 years to 2.10 months old.
This class is a continue on from Toddler One, and encourages a range of already learnt skills, as well as introducing new crucial skills. We aim to progress your child/rens kicking, paddling and reaching skills. We further introduce new skills such as blowing bubbles, full face submersion and holding onto the edge which are all important to your child/rens learning to swim journey.
While parents/guardians are still by their sides, we focus on thriving your child/rens independence in the water and their confidence. Preparing them for our transition classes which see’s them work towards being self sufficient.
Our transition class is an eight week program and is aimed to focus on independence and weaning parents/guardians out of the pool so the children are prepared for the next stage by the age of 3 years old.
By the time the eight week program has been completed children should be able to achieve:
Safety Side in the pool
Monkey monkey to bench
Waiting their turn
Confident swimming without a parent/guardian.
This is the first non-parent/guardian class where your child/ren will independently take their lesson with their swim instructor.
This class will begin with recapping water conditioning, blowing bubbles and water safety. Your child will be asked to demonstrate their eyes (using googles) and ears in the water, blowing bubbles, kicking and paddling arms and more.
Your child/ren will explore a tailored lesson plan that aims at achieving specific skills to ensure that your child has the best possible outcome of becoming an independent and confident swimmer. We explore a range of basic swimming techniques, which are a follow from previous levels. We further introduce a range of equipment to help develop core strength and muscle memory such as kick boards and noodles, where they will learn to better propel themselves through the water towards streamline position.
Your child will be encouraged to combine different elements of swimming together and in different sequences, combining their skills together.
Based on your child/rens skills and development, our Level 2 class focuses on perfecting technique with long arms, straight legs and breath control. This will be broken down in several elements, working on strengthening their body positioning. This will contribute to floating and unassisted roll overs.
We introduce a range of safety drills, encouraging the child/ren to work on saving themselves using noodles, kick boards and swim rings, to prepare for them for a possible real life scenario.
Now that your child/ren have learned the correct body positioning, we focus on introducing correct stroke and kicking techniques for freestyle and backstroke. A well as streamline, we teach children the skill of strokes through a range of sequences with a kickboard, breaking it down before combining the movements together.
We further challenge children to have stronger breath control when their face is submerged.
As your child/ren has established the basic freestyle and backstroke arms and legs, we now focus on their strokes without the assistance of a kickboard. Using the full pool length, we further aim to develop breath control and core strength, contributing to their independent strokes. We also introduce bilateral breathing using a roll to ear technique.
By the time your child is ready to progress to the next level, they will be able to swim both freestyle and backstroke unassisted.
Your child will now be perfecting both their freestyle and backstroke techniques and will be capable of swimming four laps of the length of the pool continuously.
At this level, breaststroke and butterfly kick will be introduced, as a new skill to learn. By the end of this level, we aim for your child/ren to be able to swim a minimum of four laps of all focus strokes, with good arm and kick technique, good timing and glide.
This is our stroke development level and our goal is to improve your child/rens technique for freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke, as well as be taught how to swim butterfly arms, incorporated with the kick.
Like previous taught stokes, the swim instructor will break down each stoke into separate elements and eventually combine them into one stroke, teaching the children about the timing and breathes.
Our adults class are for anyone over the age of 18 who would like to learn how to swim.
They are taught by a qualified Swim Coach, who will teach you from the very basics of learning to swim, help overcome anyone with fears of the water, introduce strokes and incorporate basic survival and rescue skills.
For more information on each of our swimming classes, call us on
(07) 3522 1470.
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Hi my name is Georgia!
I used to be a competitive swimmer and water polo player a few years ago which lead to the interest of wanting to teach others learning to swim
I am still currently at school in grade 12 set to finish this year in 2024. I am now a trainee Learn To Swim Instructor at Family Aquatics soon to be Instructor.
I am very excited to meet and help your children learn and exceed in their swimming journey
FUN FACT ABOUT ME: Ryan used to be my Swimming Coach back in 2016 when I was 10 years old.
Hi my name is Chloe
I recently completed my AUSTSWIM qualifications late last year while I was still working in full time in Outside School Care.
I have always been interested in Swimming and thoroughly enjoy working with children as it is my passion to. . . . . . . . . . .
I joined Family Aquatics beginning of this year in 2024 so you will see me around on most days.
FUN FACT ABOUT ME: I used to be a competitive Dancer, Tennis Player, Netball goalie and Swimmer.
Hi Everyone
My name is Courtney
I recently became a Learn to Swim instructor in April last year 2023 with Family Aquatics. After signing my daughter up to swimming lessons, each week at her lesson, I took on board all instruction and knowledge on how to help her improve. This caught Lorna’s eye and asked if I thought about becoming an instructor as she thought I had the potential to help others like she helped me.
I used to work in childcare for many years before I had my daughter and I thoroughly enjoy working and giving the gift of education to children and watching them thrive in different areas of life.
I am both Teacher and Water Safety and Infant and preschooler qualified. Although I teach both areas, and since then i feel like my calling is our Babies through to Toddlers as I feel like I have helped to kick start their swimming journey in the right direction and given them the correct tools and knowledge so they can further their journey.
FUN FACT ABOUT ME: I am a fully qualified hairdresser and my partner and I own a lawn mowing business ‘Grow, Mow, Go’.
My name is Ryan and I am the assistant manager at Family Aquatics.
I joined the family in 2022 and thoroughly enjoy what I do. Watching children go from strength to strength is a true blessing and helping them achieve their goals to further their swimming onto squads and competitions.
I am a fully qualified swimming coach through Swim Australia and I have been teaching and coaching Swimming since 1994.
I look forward to meeting you helping all of your children reach their swimming goals.
FUN FACT ABOUT ME: Swimming has given me the opportunity to travel all over the world.
Hi Families
My name is Lorna and I am the manager at Family Aquatics Swim School. I helped the owner build the business back in 2020.
I used to be a competitive Swimmer back in England, competing for my county Nottinghamshire County Elite Squad (Nova Centurion Swimming Club) for many years.
I moved to Australia in 2006 and found my passion for swimming again when i became an Instructor.
I also used to work in Childcare for 8 Years before having a little man of my own in 2016
I am truly passionate about educating children about the importance of water safety and helping them feel safe and secure in their swimming environment as we live in a state surrounded by water.
It is my mission to. . . . . . .
I look forward to meeting you all and helping your children through their swimming journey.
FUN FACT ABOUT ME: I used to compete against England’s 2008 Gold Medalist Rebecca Addlington between 2000 and 2005 when we both swam for Nottinghamshire County before I moved to Australia in 2006.
Hi everyone my name is Kay
I am the owner of Family Aquatics Swim School.
When we lived in England I used to thoroughly enjoyed devoting my time taking Lorna across the country attending many Competitive Swim Meets.
When Lorna fell pregnant in 2016, this is when I had the idea of opening up a Swim School as a small side hustle as I want to offer other parents a place to start their children’s Swimming Journey and enjoy it as much as I did.
It took a few years to work out the ins and outs of opening my own business but back in 2020 Lorna and I final made it and opened Family Aquatics.
If you see me around please come and say hi
FUN FACT ABOUT ME: I used to be a fully qualified nurse and midwife for 42 years. Before I retired in 2021 I was running the mothers department in a major hospital.
