As important as walking and talking, swimming is a skill for life!
The Makino Swim School offers many lesson programmes to suit a wide range of ages and abilities. Each programme is designed to develop your child's swimming ability as well as teach personal and group survival and rescue techniques.
Click here for our lesson and instructor timetables from Explorer to Swim 1 level, click here for our Swim 2 to AB Advance timetables.
Beginner level primarily working on submersion, independence and confidence in the water.
Target age: 5+ years
This class is all about gliding through the water in the correct streamline position and getting comfortable with floating.
Target age: 5+ years
Now we are moving, learning our correct kick and bringing in our arm actions.
Target age: 5+ years
Putting our kick and arms together on both front and back. We also introduce a Breaststroke kick.
Target age: 5+ years
In this class we introduce our breathing and bring in our Breaststroke and Butterfly kicks.
Target age: 5+ years
This class is about continuous Freestyle, Backstroke and Breaststroke for 12.5m.
Target age: 5+ years
Our first level in the 25m pool. It's all about refining our strokes and starting to build distance.
Target age: 5+ years
Bringing together Butterfly with arms and completely swimming 25m Freestyle, Backstroke and Breaststroke.
Target age: 5+ years
Competently swimming 50m in Freestyle, Backstroke and Breaststroke, 25m Butterfly and a medley.
Target age: 5+ years
Competently swimming 100m in Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and 50m Butterfly.
Target age: 5+ years
Competently swimming 200m in Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and 100m Butterfly.
Target age: 5+ years
Extending our distance and learning to use the race clock with timed drill sets.
Target age: 10+ years
All Makino Swim School instructors are AUSTSWIM trained.
For more information on learn to swim classes, contact Makino Swim School - swim.school@mdc.govt.nz
