Swim School

Make a splash with our swim lessons

In our swim school, you will build a strong foundation in swimming with our Learn-to-Swim program. Our experienced instructors teach essential water safety skills and swimming techniques in a fun and supportive environment. Whether your child is a beginner or looking to refine their strokes, our program is designed to help them develop confidence and competence in the water.

Katy Aquatics Level Descriptions

Bubbles

(Station 1)

Floats & Glides

(Station 2)

Kicking

(Station 3)

Crawl Stroke

(Station 4)

Freestyle

(Station 5)

Bubbles

(Station 1)

This station is for nervous or beginner students. We focus on water adaptation, basic skills, and confidence building. Swimmers learn to move in the water, hold and release their breath, submerge their face, open their eyes underwater, blow bubbles, bob with bubbles, & exchange air.

Swimmers advance when they can do 10 relaxed bobs with air exchange.

Floats & Glides

(Station 2)

This station is for swimmers comfortable holding their breath and doing 10 relaxed bobs. We focus on floating, gliding, and safe water entry. Swimmers learn to front and back float, glide, and recover. They also learn safe water entry techniques.

Swimmers advance when they can glide front and back for 5 seconds and recover.

Kicking

(Station 3)

This level is for swimmers that know how to comfortably hold their breath and float on their stomach and back independently. Swimmers will be taught kicking skills with front and back glides.

Swimmers advance when they can kick correctly on their front and their back in streamline position.

Crawl Stroke

(Station 4)

This station is for swimmers who have mastered breath control, body position, and kicking. We focus on rolling, breathing, and the crawl stroke. Swimmers learn to roll over, breathe on the side, and perform the crawl arm stroke with catch up. They’ll master short front crawl swims.

Swimmers advance by performing side-glide kick and crawl stroke.

Freestyle

(Station 5)

This class is for swimmers who can swim on top of the water, but who stop when they need to take a breath. Swimmers will be taught back crawl stroke and will master front crawl stroke with bilateral side breathing.

Swimmers will advance by swimming crawl stroke with a minimum of 4 side breaths.

Backstroke & Rotation

(Station 6)

Butterfly

(Station 7)

Breaststroke

(Station 8)

Turns

(Station 9)

Individual Medley

(Station 10)

Backstroke & Rotation

(Station 6)

This level is appropriate for swimmers who have mastered freestyle swimming with continuous side breathing for a short distance and can swim on their backs. Swimmers can also learn how to tread water, dive from the sitting, kneeling, and standing positions, and work on their endurance in freestyle.

Swimmers advance when they swim backstroke with correct body position, strong kicks, and quick arm rotation and when they are able to rotate on both freestyle and backstroke.

Butterfly

(Station 7)

This station is for swimmers who have successfully mastered freestyle and backstroke. In this class, swimmers will learn how to dolphin kick and the timing of the butterfly stroke. The butterfly stroke should have 2 visible kicks with one arm pull. Breathing should occur every other stroke.

Swimmers will advance when they can perform 10-15 meters of butterfly with proper body position, arm stroke, and dolphin kick.

Breaststroke

(Station 8)

This station is for students who have passed stations 1-7 and have mastered freestyle, backstroke, and butterfly. Swimmers will learn the breaststroke kick (up-out-around) and correct timing (pull-breathe-kick-glide) for breaststroke.

Swimmers will advance when they demonstrate the legal form of breaststroke and can swim 10-15 meters of breaststroke with proper body position, arm stroke, and kick.

Turns

(Station 9)

This station is for swimmers who have mastered all 4 strokes. Swimmers will learn how to perform a flip in the water, how to touch with both hands on breaststroke and butterfly, and how to correctly perform a freestyle flip turn. In this station, swimmers will also learn how to turn for the Individual Medley.

Swimmers will advance when they are able to successfully perform a flip in the water, touch with both hands on breaststroke & butterfly, and perform a freestyle flip turn.

Individual Medley

(Station 10)

This level is for swimmers who have passed stations 1-9 and can legally swim all 4 strokes. In this station, swimmers will gain endurance and fine tune their strokes. The survival strokes Elementary Backstroke and Sidestroke can also be learned in this station.

To graduate from level 10 and move on to Future Stars, the swimmer must be able to complete a 100 IM, a 100 Freestyle, and a 50 of Butterfly, Backstroke, & Breaststroke with correct turns without stopping.

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Future Stars

Pre-Competitive Program

Future Stars is our pre-competitive program where swimmers will learn how to further enhance their strokes and turns and how to get ready for competitive swimming. Future Stars swimmers swim for 1 hour (with a maximum of 25 swimmers per time slot) 3 times a week. To see more information on Future Stars, please visit our competitive website here and scroll down to Future Stars.

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