Class Descriptions

Available all year long, each weekly lesson is taught one-on-one with a certified instructor. Throughout our years of teaching, we’ve seen children respond better to individual attention rather than a group setting.  Private lessons promote a feeling of security, and children learn and retain the skills at a much faster rate. We have seven skill levels. At the first lesson, your child will be assessed and placed into the appropriate level. 

Children progress through different skill levels as they grow and receive certificates of achievement as they graduate to a higher skill level.  The last levels focus on strength building and training for competition or lifeguard training.  Children are encouraged to join the local swim teams during the year.  

Children under the age of 3 will work on survival skills similar

to those in the Little Dreamers classes. Children at this age are experimenting with their independence and often, if the child is not in a daycare/preschool setting, we are the first “teachers” they have ever experienced.  Just be patient and watch the progress.

For children/teens who are already proficient swimmers, Dream Big Swim Academy offers private lessons for technique and stroke development. Many of our older students swim for the local high schools.

Everyone deserves to enjoy the water! 

Children with special needs and disabilities are always welcome. The facilities have a wheelchair lift to the pool deck and a lift into the pool. We specialize in adaptive methods to make everyone comfortable in the water. We work very slowly and patiently with our autistic kids/adults to make sure they are comfortable while we set up a routine that they will love.  We currently have several children with disabilities ranging from mild autism, dyspraxia, severe anxiety, all the way to Noonan Syndrome, and severe developmental delays.

These lessons are available all year long. 

Adults are also welcome at Dream Big Swim Academy. It is never too late to learn!  Classes are also one-on-one with an instructor. In the adult class, you set the pace. The goal for adults is to learn to be comfortable in the water as well as safe. The first few lessons focus on safety skills and water acclimation and the next lessons build on further development. Lessons continue for as long as you wish.

This will be an hour long swim training program with other students at the same level.  Students must have passed  the Dolphin level, and be recommended by an instructor for this program.  This lesson will focus on swim team preparation and advanced technique.  Maximum of 8 students permitted.