OUR PROGRAMS
We have a program for every child in our community. We are unique in offering free swimming lessons from BIRTH to 6 months. If you have an older child who is afraid of water, let us help you make him or her a Happy Swimmer. If your child has special needs, join our Treasures program. If you have a competitive swimmer, let us nurture that talent. If you are an adult, come swim with us!
Swimmers move through our tailored 12-week programs with our Hampton teachers who are selected for their positive, fun and nurturing natures, and trained in our unique Hampton teaching philosophies and methods. We look at each child as a whole. Parents can follow their child(ren)'s progress with our online portal and app.
We offer classes 7 Days a week to ensure flexibility of scheduling to suit your changing needs. We offer great discounts for more frequent swimmers and families of three and more children. Have a look at which program suits your family best below and book your free trial!
Click below to find out more about our BabySteps Program Level
BabyBegins is a positive, calm and gentle introduction from the womb to the water. This free class for newborns to 6-month old babies offers an intimate and unique bonding experience through teacher-led activities and guides parents...
Babies aged 3 to 5 months will be developing and engaging reflexes including for submersion, floating, rolling & turning, holding on, directional movement, and all with continued close contact with primary carer...
This level, for our 6 to 8-month old babies, focusses on integrating reflexes into learnt responses for submersion, floating, rolling & turning, holding on, directional movement - all with continued close contact with primary carer...
During these lessons for your 9 to 11-month old, we are using a nurturing approach to increasing breath control and submersion. We will be developing our muscles to reinforce independent hold on's for safety...
Fun lessons where your 12- to 14-month old learns through exploratory and interactive experiences, to challenge their submersions and breath hold, increase coordination of kicking and movement through the water...
This is a 6-week program for new or returning Hampton customers with children in the age group 14 to 23 months, to nurture and guide children to love the water and lessons. We understand separation anxiety...
This class for 15- to 17-month old children is designed to increase bilateral movement of paddling and understanding body orientation, using circuits and platforms to assist with freedom of movement. We will be exploring your child’s development...
Our 18- to 20-month old Turtles are developing their confidence, not only through improving their independent swimming skills and their awareness and control of their body in the water, but also via social, emotional and cognitive activities to keep these inquisitive natures engaged.
Enjoy the fun our Hermit Crabs have, whilst learning to coordinate their kicking and paddling to work together for increased propulsion and distance during self- submersions and reduced assisted swims, including breath hold for safety turns. This class is suitable for children who are 21 – 23 months old.
Our 24- to 26-month (2 year) old Otters are becoming swimming superstars! We will be guiding them to explore their boundaries in a safe environment, learning to bend and float on front and back independently, kicking and paddling simultaneously...
This program is for new or returning Hampton customers with children in the age group 24 to 36 months (2 years) old, to nurture and guide children to love the water and lessons. We are using our unique games-based boat system to assist with body position and floatation, while increasing confidence with correct body position for independent swimming.
These transitional lessons (27- to 33-month olds) will nurture your child’s confidence and continue to build relationships with their peers and trust in their teacher. Penguins will learn everything together, bilateral movement and coordination with buoyancy, core strength and balance...
During these lessons (for 34- to 36-month olds) we will use the guidance and support of parents in building trust with the teacher to prepare for parent transition out of water. The distance of swims will increase with a focus on the straight leg kick...
These lessons focus on guidance in the water with independent movements and through circuits. Crocodiles will enjoy increased confidence and body position with submersions, with a focus on orientation. They will be able to perform an independent swim of up to 7 meters...
In this transitional class Frogs (for children aged 3 years and 3 months to 3 years and 5 months) will continue to explore what they have achieved previously and combining trust, confidence and reassurance to swim solo with their teacher...
Click below to find out more about our SwimSteps Program Levels
This program is for new or returning Hampton customers with children in the age group 3 years and up. It is suitable for beginners who have had limited experience in the water and feel nervous about commencing lessons...
Platypus is the level for children aged between 3 and 5 years who are happy and excited to be in the water and start lessons, but who still need to learn how to swim independently. Our experienced teachers will guide your child, focusing on breath control, balance, submersions, floating and paddling...
Fostering confidence to be independent in the water, our Piranha’s for children 3 years and up work on extending their floatation and body positive, whilst arm and kicking actions are introduced...
These lessons will be building on distances achieved in Piranha. We will introduce swimming aides, e.g. kickboard and begin diving activities...
Building on distances and independence, our Octopus level moves to develop over-arm freestyle, streamlining, front and back kicking and water exploration without use of googles...
During these lessons, our Eels will focus on rudimentary freestyle swimming, their backstroke body position and kicking. They will be swimming as an individual and in pairs...
Hampton Swim School’s Sealions are putting it all together! The focus of Sealions is to teach the freestyle side-breathing technique and begin learning backstroke arm strokes...
This level is all about smooth! Freestyle and backstroke come together for fluid swims and our swimmers will learn specific drills for fine tuning skills unique to strokes...
Our Stingrays will work on improving technique and endurance whilst swimming freestyle and backstroke. Here we build on the skills learnt in Walrus...
Our Marlins will focus on freestyle and backstroke maintenance swims and skills, while learning breaststroke arm, kick, and stroke timing drills...
These lessons will be all about fine tuning swimmers’ endurance and technique in freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke...
Our Dolphins are learning self-management skills such as lane etiquette, self starting and continual swim distance for freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke...
Our final level in our SwimSteps Program, our Hammerheads see a culmination of all 4 strokes being fine tuned as well as experimenting with racing techniques such as dives, tumbles, touch turns and drills...
CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT Levels of the Swim SQUADS Program
Swimmers graduating from our SwimSteps program will now continue their progression in the water in our Red Team...
White Team is an introductory swim squad in the TEAM ACCELERATE Program for swimmers transitioning from Red Team. It is the first competitive training group at Hampton Swim School...
Silver Team refines all competitive strokes, extends conditioning and develops training techniques...
Black Team is our top-level squad swim session for the committed squad swimmer who is looking towards the more competitive aspect of swimming as a sport, or the experienced swimmer who is still in love with swimming...
LEVELS OF PROGRESSION
This is how your child progresses throughout our learn to swim school programs
Use our Find Your Level system to help you decide, and book your classes directly online.