Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy
South Shore Health and Racquet Club Swim Lessons Spring 2025
Group Swim Lessons
- Instructor: Meghan (Dawson) Kovalska
phone: (269) 429-2101
email: meghan@southshorehrc.com - Format: In Person
- Additional registration at location is required. *Please contact Meghan via email at meghan@southshorehrc.com to register.
- Students must be registered for Session I and will automatically be registered and must take Session II as well.
- Any questions contact Meghan.
Classes will typically be 1hr with 45 min of instruction and 15 min of independent swim
Tuesdays: January 7th - May 6th *no class March 25th and April 1st*
- Level 1 12:00pm - 12:45pm
- Level 2 12:45pm - 1:30pm
- Level 3 1:30pm - 2:15pm
- Level 4 2:15pm - 3pm
Or
Thursdays: January 9th - May 8th *no class March 27th and April 3rd*
- Level 3 9:30am - 10:15am
- Level 2 10:15 am - 11:00am
- Level 1 11:00am - 11:45am
- Level 4 11:45am - 12:30pm
***Note: only group lessons or swim club ONE DAY per week is covered by the partnership. Families are responsible for all costs over $400.***
Group Lessons only: Any family or group of 4 or more can create their own group lesson time!
Evening or Weekend group classes may be available upon request. Please contact Meghan at meghan@southshorehrc.com
Each week students will be introduced to a new skill and/or continue working on previously introduced skills until proficiency is reached at a skill level.
Swimming Level Descriptions
- Level One: Water Exploration - The objective of Level One is to help students feel comfortable in the water and enjoy the water safely. Students will learn elementary water skills which they will build on as they progress through the various levels.
- Level Two: Primary Skills - Is designed to give students success with fundamental skills of front crawl and backstroke and to learn to float without support and to learn basic self-help rescue skills.
- Level Three: Stroke Readiness - Students learn to coordinate front and back crawl. Introduce elementary backstroke and the fundamentals of treading water.
- Level Four: Stroke Development - Students develop confidence in strokes learned thus far and to improve other aquatic skills. Introduce breaststroke, sidestroke, and wall turns.
Stroke Clinic
Wednesdays: January 8th - May 14th *March 19th, 26th and April 2nd*
- 4:30pm-5:30pm
Stroke Clinic focuses on technique for the 4 competitive strokes Freestyle (front crawl) , Breaststroke, Back Crawl and Butterfly and developing endurance. Students will work drills for each stroke breaking down the components of each to increase their efficiency. Introduction to starts, turns and finishes will be touched upon as well. Students must be able to swim 25 yards of Freestyle (front crawl) and 25 yards of Back Crawl to participate.
South Shore Swim Lessons and Stroke Clinic Schedule SPRING 2025
*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.
Teacher of Record: Sara Smothers
