SwimSafer Stage 4 Bronze

Development of your child’s stroke technique will be a focus here, along with coordinated breathing in deep water while swimming 100 metres. Principles of water craft safety will be introduced, as well as continual work on rescue and personal water survival skills.

What you will learn

Entries & Exits

  • Enter water using a compact jump

Sculling & Body Orientation

  • Demonstrate a forward somersault in the water.

  • Scull, float or tread water for 2 minutes (incorporated in Survival & Activity Skills)

Underwater Skills

  • In at least 1.4m deep water, perform feet-first surface dive, swim through hoops on pool bottom for 2m

Movement/Swimming/Strokes

  • Swim 115 metres continuously

  • 25 metres Front Crawl

  • 25 metres Breaststroke

  • 25 metres Backstroke

  • 25 metres Survival Backstroke

  • 15 metres Sidestroke

Survival & Activity skills

  • Scull, float or tread water for 2 minutes

  • Dressed in swimwear, shorts and t-shirt demonstrate:

    1. 3 minutes swimming slowly using survival backstroke, sidestroke and breaststroke, changing each minute

    2. Wave and call for help intermittently

    3. Swim to a flotation aid and kick to pool’s edge, then climb out of water

Rescue Skills

  • Throw a floatation aid to a partner 2m away and instruct the partner to kick to the edge

Knowledge

  • Rules of behaviour in, on or near the water

  • Water safety knowledge at a swimming pool

  • Water safety rules in various aquatic environments

  • Principles of personal safety and survival

  • Principles of watercraft safety

  • Recognising an Emergency

  • Principles when performing a rescue

SwimSafer 2.0 Stage 4 Bronze Test Crteria

Swim 100m continuously (in this order):

  • 25m Front-Crawl

  • 25m Backstroke

  • 25m Breaststroke

  • 25m Survival Backstroke

Survival Sequence Bronze A (w/o goggles)

  • Enter the water using compact ump (in deep water), resurface, then perform a forward somersault

  • Scull, float or tread water for 2 min

  • In at least 1.4m deep water, perform fee-first surface dive

  • Swim through hoops on pool bottom for 2m

  • Resurface and exit pool safely

Survival Sequence Bronze B (w/o goggles)

  • Dressed in swimwear, shorts and t-shirt demonstrate:

    • 3 min swimming slowly using survival backstroke, side stroke, survival breaststroke, for 1 min per stroke

    • Wave for help (rescuer to throw flotation aid)

    • Swim to a flotation aid and kick to pool’s edge, then climb out of water