Prior to Starting Your Lessons
Required Reading for Swim School Orientation
Use our book and web site as your orientation for class
Our book, Learn to Swim is your text book. Read pages 1-53 before attending classes. Familiarize yourself with safe entries, how to hold your child, format of activities.
Practice playful water pouring activities in the bath (page 38).
Study our web site: Click here: Baby Swimming~The Gentle Journey
Rob and Kathy created “Baby Swimming – The Gentle Journey” Lifestyle’s educational web page devoted to the child-centered, non traumatic method of infant/toddler swim instruction. This site receives over 7000 visitors per month and has been visited from over 159 countries.
Supply List
- Baby’s swim suit (preferably with snug elastic around the legs) One or two piece sun protection suits are also permissible.
- Swim Diaper–disposable or reusable.
- Spare regular diaper, spare swim diaper.
- Swim Suit for parent (sun protection rash guard also permissible/ advisable).
- Child safe sun block applied 1/2 hour before class so it can absorb and do its job and so children are not slippery in our hands.
- Ear drops for after swimming (OTC brands include, Star Otic, Water Baby, Swim Ear, Auro Dri)
- Towels for parent and child
- Any change of clothes necessary for after class.
First Day of Class
Please come 30 minutes early for check-in for your first class.
FAU Main Aquatic Center if you wish to receive a FAU parking permit for the summer leave your name at our registration table to be added to the FAU parking list. The fee is $25 for the summer. Great deal!!
On the first day of class, there will be a brief orientation meeting before entering the pool.
Our Facilities
We are in outdoor at all locations.
Our facilities include bathrooms, showers, changing areas, chairs and tables. You may also change your children on the deck area using your beach towel.
A receptacle is provided for disposal of diapers. Please do not leave wet swim diapers on the deck or tables.
Because of ants and bugs, please snack outside the pool deck area and dispose of all waste immediately in the trash cans provided.
Please do not enter the water until called into class by your teacher. You need to exit the pool after class.
We are not permitted to leave the small teaching pool area. So please do not enter the large 50 meter pool area.