At the eel level they will be taught to flutter kick, dive, float, and perform progressive paddle strokes. Children will be able to swim across the pool without assistance at the end of the eel level. At this level children review previous skills, improve stroke skills, build endurance by swimming on their front and back, and learn to tread water and perform more progressive diving skills. At the starfish level they refine their crawl and back strokes and floating skills. The also learn under-water swimming skills.
Children can swim the length of the pool on the front and back at the end of the Starfish level.
This is the beginning level for school age children. It gets children aquainted with the pool, use of floatation devices, and front and back floating. By the end of this level they should know the front paddlestroke, side and back paddle, and will be introduced to lead up strokes to the front and back crawl, sidestroke, breaststroke, and elementary backstroke and some synchronized swimming. This is the intermediate level. The children further refine the lead up skills, and work to perform the crawl stroke, elementary backstroke.