Aqua Explorers

Merry December🎄

Send to your friends - Aqua Explorers launching in January!

Hit the link to register your interest ready for the New Year.

Small classes, highly skilled teachers and care for progress.

Stage six, ✨ORCAS✨

You’ll be a strong, competent swimmer by now looking to achieve the following:

Key Skills:
1. Swim 50 meters using 3 different strokes.
2. Swim 25 meters butterfly.
3. Practice of competitive starts (dive from standing position) and finishes.
4. Perform tumble turns for front crawl and backstroke.
5. Practice survival skills (treading water for 1 minute, swim in clothing).
6. Perform head-first dives safely.

Our fifth stage ✨TURTLES✨

Gearing up for distance and the fundamental fitness elements of swimming, we add some meters to our swimming in this stage.

Key Skills:
1. Swim 25 meters using 3 strokes (front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke).
2. Basic butterfly stroke (introduce full stroke over 5-10 meters).
3. Refine timing and breathing for breaststroke.
4. Introduction to tumble turns (front crawl and backstroke).
5. Swim continuously for 50 meters using one stroke.
6. Swim 10 meters butterfly with arm and leg coordination.

Our fourth stage ✨Jellyfish✨

We’re looking for progress, not perfection, although the earlier we can perfect, the better..!

Key Skills:
1. Swim 15 meters front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke.
2. Introduce basic butterfly kick.
3. Swim breaststroke with correct arm and leg timing (butterfly arm/leg drills separately).
4. Improve breathing timing for front crawl (every 3rd stroke).
5. Perform a sitting or kneeling dive.
6. Treading water for 20-30 seconds.

Demonstrations need to be on point when you’re a teacher so you can lead by example. That’s why every teacher that works for us has an induction on the way that we teach so that there is continuity from class to class.

We not only offer lessons to the general public, we also offer curriculum top up lessons!

We loved the effort from the children, it was so rewarding to see the progress for the community that live next to the sea to have a better understanding of safety and strength in the water.

Lauren and Rosie delivered excellent teaching to this group and are on hand to do more!

Check out what some of our clients have to say about us..! We work with any and all swimmers and adaptation is second nature. We will always ensure that every child matters.

Third stage ✨DOLPHIN✨

Dolphins are cool, speedy and fun. We focus on a bit more distance here so that we are getting your child stronger and fitter - swimming is a great safety, life and fitness tool.

Key Skills:
1. Swim 10 meters front crawl and backstroke with improved technique.
2. Introduction to breaststroke leg action (without full stroke).
3. Coordinating breathing with arm pulls (bilateral breathing for front crawl).
4. Push and glide into streamlined body position (front and back).
5. Treading water for 10-15 seconds.
6. Kicking 10 meters on both front and back with extended arms.

Second stage ✨SEAHORSE✨

It’s more about the swimming now - a bigger jump but that’s why we focus on things that are important straight away. We want strong swimmers, competitively or life wise so we get the fundamentals in quick.

Key Skills:
1. Swim 5 meters front and back without aids.
2. Rotate from front to back and back to front.
3. Introduction to overarm pull in front crawl.
4. Basic backstroke arms (without support).
5. Floating and regaining standing position.
6. Jump into water unaided and return to surface.
7. Begin to coordinate arm and leg movements in sync.

Check out our first stage… ✨STARFISH✨

We’ve broken it down and made it so that progress at the beginning can be about feeling strong and safe in the water… it’s about being confident and able to be in the water, walking before you run so to speak!

Key Skills:
1. Safe entry/exit from the water.
2. Water confidence (face in water, submerging).
3. Floating independently on front and back.
4. Push and glide from wall in streamline position.
5. Introduction to kicking on front and back (with and without aids).
6. Blow bubbles and breathing control.
7. Basic water safety awareness (call for help, understanding shallow/deep areas).

Follow us to find out more about our stages and our teachers in the coming weeks! Don’t forget to register your interest in the link that’s in our bio ⭐️

Swim school owner, Ella has been teaching for 20 years, starting out as a volunteer at her local swim club in Wiltshire.

Here she helped swimmers move into club swimming and looked after Regional athletes getting them on track for competitions.

In those two decades, Ella has worked across several swim schools in the South West catering to ages 3+ as well as a bespoke coaching service for athletes on their return from injury into high level swimming.

She’s also an Open Water Coach which is very apt given the location next to the sea!

Ella swum competitively in her younger years and then moved on to triathlon. She’s done long distance, relay, open water, sprint and iron distance tris and sees the overall value in being able to enjoy the coastline in Devon.

Ella has a vision for Aqua Explorers to gain skills in the water that don’t only have the direction of competitive swimming. Enjoyment with a skill that can lead to looking forward spending time next to our abundant stretches of water in a safe way.

She also wants the teachers in her school to have the ability to utilise their own flare but with a clear and consistent delivery to each swimmer!