Skip to content
Community

Guildford Swim School

Book a Tour Enrol Now

Guildford Grammar School offers many swimming programs for different ages and abilities.

Our programs focus on teaching children to love the water and develop the skills they need to feel safe and confident in the water, at their own pace.

Learn to Swim teaches children over the age of four the valuable skills they need to feel safe and confident in the water, with flexibility to meet the needs of each child’s development.

Learn to swim offers:

    • Flexible 30-minute lessons suited to each child

    • Weekly lessons are held during Terms 1, 2 and 4

    • Group sessions or individual lessons available

    • All lessons are held in our heated 25 metre pool

    • Lessons are open to all

    • Small class sizes to ensure your child gets the most out of their time in the pool.

Term 1, 2025

The Term 1 program runs for 11 weeks, from Tuesday 28 January to Friday 11 April 2025.

Lesson times: 

3.30pm, 4.05pm, 4.40pm, 5.15pm and 5.50pm (Individual classes will be held at 4.40pm, 5.15pm and 5.50pm only).

Sessions:

Sessions are held on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons (30-minute classes).

Costs:

    • $275 for group sessions

    • $600 for individual lessons

Enrol Now

 

Stage 1 – Sardine

  1. Enter the water safely
  2. Exhale in the water
  3. Open your eyes underwater and distinguish objects
  4. Float on you back with or without a board
  5. Attempt to kick 1 metre on your front or back

Stage 2 – Jellyfish

  1. Glide forward and freestyle kick 3 metres
  2. Glide forward underwater and kick 3 metres
  3. Glide backwards and backstroke kick 1 metre
  4. Swim 5 metres freestyle with head still, arms clearing the water and leg kicking alternating
  5. Tread water and do basic sculling
  6. Be pulled to safety by beach rescue
  7. Float on your back or front for 30 seconds

Enrol Now

 

Stage 3 – Shrimp

    1. Swim a minimum of 10 metres freestyle with a regular breathing pattern
    2. Glide backwards and backstroke 5 metres
    3. Glide backwards underwater and backstroke kick
    4. Attempt to swim 5 metres backstroke
    5. Attempt to swim 5 metres breaststroke kick on back with a board
    6. Survival sculling on back and front – not moving
  1. Be pulled safely by throw rescue
  2. Attempt a forward roll

Stage 4 – Platypus

  1. Swim a minimum of 15 metres freestyle with correct breathing pattern and head position
  2. Swim a minimum of 10 metres backstroke with correct arms and body position
  3. Swim a minimum of 10 metres survival backstroke with correct breaststroke kick
  4. Attempt to swim 5 metres breaststroke kick on front with or without a board
  5. Swim in deeper water
  6. Scull on back or front, moving a minimum of 5 metres
  7. Attempt dolphin kick underwater in a streamlined position
  8. Attempt a sitting dive

Enrol Now

Stage 5 – Sea Lion

  • Swim a minimum of 25 metres freestyle with correct breathing, head and kick positions
  • Swim a minimum of 25 metres backstroke with correct arms, body and kick positions
  • Swim a minimum of 25 metres survival backstroke with correct breaststroke kick
  • Swim a minimum of 15 metres breaststroke with sculling hands and correct kick
  • Glide underwater doing six kicks of dolphin, freestyle and backstroke kick
  • Attempt three freestyle strokes, then forward roll
  • Be reach rescued by a partner

Stage 6 – Stingray

  1. Swim a minimum of 50 metres in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and survival backstroke
  2. Attempt to swim side stroke
  3. Dive and hold streamline position
  4. Tumble turn against a wall
  5. Show all the non-contact rescues
  6. Swim 5 metres butterfly

Enrol Now

Stage 7 – Crocodile

  1. Scull feet-first on back
  2. Demonstrate eggbeater kick
  3. Swim 150 metres
  4. Swim 25 metres backstroke with correct technique
  5. Swim 50 metres breaststroke with correct technique
  6. Swim 50 metres freestyle with correct technique
  7. Swim 25 metres backstroke with correct technique and symmetrical leg action
  8. Demonstrate survival sequence number 7

Stage 8 – Octopus

  1. Swim a minimum of 25 metres sidestroke with correct technique
  2. Demonstrate dolphin kick (extension)
  3. Swim 200 metres
  4. Swim 50 metres backstroke with correct technique
  5. Swim 50 metres breaststroke with correct technique
  6. Swim 50 metres freestyle with correct technique
  7. Swim 25 metres survival backstroke with correct technique and symmetrical leg action
  8. Demonstrate safety survival sequence number 8

Stage 9 – Dolphin

  1. Swim 10 metres butterfly (extension)
  2. Demonstrate a tumble turn (extension)
  3. Swim 300 metres
  4. Swim 50 metres freestyle with correct technique (or Butterfly 25m and Freestyle 25m)
  5. Swim 50 metres backstroke with correct technique
  6. Swim 50 metres breaststroke with correct technique
  7. Swim 50 metres sidestroke with correct technique
  8. Swim 50 metres survival backstroke with correct technique and symmetrical leg action
  9. Demonstrate basic principles of CPR (extension)
  10. Demonstrate non-contact rescues (extension)

Our Holiday Swim program is an accelerated and intensive block of swimming lessons to build children’s skills and confidence quickly.  

You may get as many lessons in a two-week period of Holiday Swim as you would in a whole term of swimming lessons. Ten lessons in two weeks gives you a lot of learning!

If your child has been stuck at a swimming level for a while, Holiday Swim will help them to develop the one or two skills that may be holding them back.

Benefits of Holiday Swim sessions:

  • Practicing skills daily leads to faster learning and less review time is needed at the start of each lesson
  • Great confidence booster as children learn skills and progress faster than with weekly classes
  • Helps to provide structure and routine to holidays and gives children a focus
  • 30-minute daily lessons are flexible to meet the needs of each child’s development.

Term 1 FlippaBall

The 1 hour sessions are held on Wednesday in Preparatory School pool.

Time:
3.30pm – 4.30pm

Duration:
Wednesday 29 January to Wednesday 9 April 2025

Cost:
$100

Enrol Now

Swim School Programs

April Holidays – Learn to Swim Program

Our 30-minute everyday classes are held in the Preparatory School pool and are available to book for Week 1 and Week 2 of the April School Holidays.

Group lessons:
3.30pm, 4.05pm, 4.40pm, 5.15pm, 5.50pm

Individual lessons: 
4.40pm, 5.15pm, 5:50pm

Week 1:
Monday 14 April 2025 to Thursday 17 April 2025

Week 2: 
Tuesday 22 April 2025 to Thursday 24 April 2025

Week 1:
Group lesson – $100
Individual lesson – $220

Week 2: 
Group lesson – $75
Individual lesson – $170

Term 2 – Learn to Swim Program

The Term 2 program runs once a week over five weeks, from Tuesday 29 April to Friday 30 May 2025.

Group lessons:
3.30pm, 4.05pm, 4.40pm, 5.15pm, 5.50pm

Individual lessons: 
4.40pm, 5.15pm, 5:50pm

Sessions are held on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons, with each class running for 30 minutes.

Group sessions: $150

Individual lessons: $350

The Power of Sport

Sport plays a central role in every student’s journey at our School. From learning to swim to competing on the field. Our sport program encourages participation, builds confidence and develops a lifelong love of physical activity.

Explore how we support students of all ages to grow through sport, develop essential life skills and pursue personal excellence.

Explore Our Sport Program