Teaching over 45,000 students each year, Kids First Swim Schools is the United States' largest year-round warm water swimming school. The franchise offers eight locations throughout the state of Maryland. The school keeps the pool temperature at 90 degrees so the students do not shiver and can concentrate. The school features six-week sessions for half-hour slots in a variety of programs, including the Mommy and Me class for infants and toddlers to get familiar with the water and learn basic skills, and small group lessons with no more than five students to a certified instructor. The school's curriculum, Kick First, involves teaching students to kick first before training other muscles like arm movements.
With three locations in Virginia, this swim school offers once-a-week swimming lessons on a 10-level program. Starting with its Swim Tots program for preschoolers, children begin at level 1 if they have no prior swim experience to gain basic safety skills before moving on to higher levels where they put their heads under water, blow bubbles and learn how to kick their feet. The Swim Kids curriculum for children six years old and up progresses in a similar fashion as the children learn the front and back floats in Level 2 and learn to swim 20 feet of freestyle by Level 4. Classes are kept small with only three to five students to an instructor.
Safe Splash begins teaching children how to swim as young as six months old, and finds that keeping the pool water as warm as bath water optimizes their learning. The swim school begins with Introduction to the Water courses, which feature Parent and Me classes, learning how to blow bubbles, wearing goggles and fins, and learning the front and back float. Safe Splash also teaches basic swimming school lessons, including how to freestyle swim the length of the pool, how to breath with bobs, and other strokes like the sidestroke.
With three locations in Southeast Michigan, Goldfish Swim School offers swim lessons to children as young as four months old. The school emphasizes safety and teaches children how to kick their feet and how to get to an island or the other side of the pool. They offer lessons from infancy to teenagers, with beginning lessons and more advanced lessons. The instructors never have more than four students in a class and teach fun floats like the Starfish and Jellyfish float, as well as how to swim across the pool on a dumbbell.
