Stage 1 encourages students to increase comfort with underwater exploration and introduces basic self-rescue skills performed with basic assistance.

Stage 1 encourages students to increase comfort with underwater exploration and introduces basic self-rescue skills performed with basic assistance.

In Stage 2, students are encouraged to perform forward movement in water and basic self-rescue skills performed independently.

In Stage 2, students are encouraged to perform forward movement in water and basic self-rescue skills performed independently.

Stage 3 develops intermediate self-rescue skills performed at longer distances than in previous stages.

Stage 3 develops intermediate self-rescue skills performed at longer distances than in previous stages.

Stage 4 introduces basic stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke.

Stage 4 introduces basic stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke.

Stage 5 introduces breaststroke and butterfly and reinforces water safety through treading water and sidestroke.

Stage 5 introduces breaststroke and butterfly and reinforces water safety through treading water and sidestroke.

Stage 6 refines stroke technique on all major competitive strokes and encourages swimming as part of a healthy lifestyle.

Stage 6 refines stroke technique on all major competitive strokes and encourages swimming as part of a healthy lifestyle.

Through the Y USA Swim Grant The Greater Wyoming Valley YMCA is able to provide swim lessons to the participants who received a coupon to chose from the next three sessions. Our youth program is broken into:

Youth stages 1 and 2 students will learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning two benchmark skills:

• swim, float, swim – sequencing front glide, roll, back float, roll, front glide, and exit
• jump, push, turn, grab

Through youth stages 3 and 4 students having mastered the fundamentals will learn additional water safety skills and build stroke technique, develop skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotional and cognitive well-being, and foster a lifetime of physical activity.