SwimSafer Stage 6 Gold

Children will be required to perform strokes with greater ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over 400 metres. Rescue skills and water safety knowledge will focus on lifesaving readiness. Standing dive and personal safety skills will continue to be taught.

What you will learn

Entries & Exits

  • Demonstrate a standing dive

Sculling & Body Orientation

  • Scull, float or tread for 5 minutes (incorporated in Survival & Activity Skills)

Underwater Skills

  • In 1.8m deep water, perform head-first surface dive (tuck or pike) and perform ear equalisation, if necessary and swim through hoops on pool bottom for 5m

Movement/Swimming/Strokes

Swim:

  • 100m Front Crawl (within 3:00 min).

  • 100m Breaststroke (within 4:00 min).

  • 100 m Backstroke (within 3:20 min).

  • 50m Survival Backstroke.

  • 50m Sidestroke.

  • 15m Butterfly.

Survival & Activity skills

Dressed in swimwear, long pants, t-shirt, perform the following sequence:

1. Enter deep water using a compact jump

2. Perform a head-first surface dive to a depth of 1.8m (and perform ear equalisation, if necessary)

3. Swim 5m underwater through hoops and resurface

4. Swim 45m quickly using front crawl

5. Then, swim slowly for a further 50m using any preferred survival swim stroke

6. Remove pants in deep water and make a float with it while treading water for 5 minutes

7. Demonstrate HEat Escape Lessening Posture (H.E.L.P.) technique with the self-made float for 1 minute

8. Then swim 25m with the self-made float and climb out of the water

Rescue Skills

  • Using a suitable buoyant aid, tow (non- contact) rescue of a person 10 metres from safety.

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 6 Gold Test Crteria

Swim (use standing dive entry for Front-Crawl, Breaststroke):

  • 100m Front-Crawl (within 3:00 min)

  • 100m Breaststroke (within 4:00 min)

  • 100m Backstroke (within 3:20 min)

  • 50m Survival Backstroke

  • 50m Sidestroke

  • 15m Butterfly

Gold Sequence (w/o goggles)

Dressed in swimwear, long pants, t-shirt, perform the following sequence

  • Enter deep water using a compact jump

  • Perform a head-first surface dive to a depth of 1.8m (and perform ear equalisation, if necessary)

  • Swim through hoops on pool bottom for 5m and resurface

  • Swim 45m quickly using front crawl

  • Then, swim slowly for a further 50m using any preferred survival swim stroke. Remove pants in deep water and make a float with it while treading water for 5m.

  • Demonstrate Heat Escape Lessening Posture (H.E.L.P.) technique for 1min with the self-made float

  • Then swim 25m with the self-made float and climb out of the water