TTP Swim School

Swimmer Categories

Starter

This category is for beginner swimmers up to those who are able to confidently travel for up to 5 metres unaided.

Swimmers in Cygnet, Beginner & Beginner 1 classes are in this category.

Improver

This category is for swimmers who are water confident and can float on both their front & back unaided. They can typically travel between 5 & 10 metres unaided of a recognised stroke on both front and back.

Swimmers in Class 1 & Class 1+ are in this category.

Intermediate

Spanning across 4 classes, swimmers in this category are confident when swimming across deep widths, half lengths or full lengths of the pool. Swimmers move into the intermediate category being able to swim approximately 10-15 metres of frontcrawl and backstroke. Swimmers work towards building stamina and increasing to swimming distances of 100m+ before moving into an advanced class.

Swimmers in Class 2, Class 2+, Class 3 & Class 4 are in the intermediate category..

Advanced

Swimmers in this category are swimming lengths of the pool and working towards swimming distances of 200m+. Increasing distance while maintaining good strokes swimmers work towards achieving distance and obtaining and bronze, silver & gold awards.

Swimmers in Class 5 & Class 6 are in this category.