Orinda Park Pool

Swim Lessons

PARK POOL SWIM LESSONS

Orinda Park Pool offers swim lessons to children of all age levels, beginning Monday, June 12^th.

Three categories of lessons are offered: Competitive, Learn to Swim, and Free Lessons.

Competitive Lessons are for children currently on the swim team. Learn to Swim Lessons are offered to non-swim team members and cover the fundamental skills necessary to join the swim team. Both of these are paid lessons and the fee is dependent on the level of coach you request. Free Lessons are also offered to young children of pool members between the ages of 3-5 years old and at the bubble blowing stage. Water safety and beginning skills are introduced.

Competitive and Learn to Swim Lessons at Park will be the same as last year. All lessons will be private, that is, one-on-one. This allows the coaches to customize lessons to address each individual swimmer’s needs and will be the most effective in accelerating the skills of Park’s swimmers. The philosophy is that lessons and practice go hand-in-hand . . . lessons should never be a substitute for a well-run technique-based practice session. Private lessons allow a swimmer to work on skills they might be having difficulty mastering, and then the swimmer returns to practice with a new understanding of and confidence in the techniques being taught.

Lesson sign-ups will be available on deck in individual coach binders. Each coach will have a binder with a sign-up sheet for each week. In order to sign up, you must fill in your swimmer’s name for an appropriate slot and place your check in the attached folder for the Lesson Coordinator to pick up. Please indicate the name of your child on the check. Your sign-up becomes official when both the coach and has initialed your lesson slot. This way, you will know exactly when and with which coach the lesson will take place. All binders will be on deck every day. The Lesson Coordinator this summer will be Meg Vaughn. You can contact her at vaughn_meg@sbcglobal.net or 258-8626 with payment questions. Please contact the coaches directly for changes or cancellation notices.

Lessons will begin the week of June 12^th and will be offered for seven weeks through the end of July. Sign-ups will begin June 4^th. Each family will be limited to 1 week of lessons per child until June 18^th. This will allow more families to participate in lessons. After June 18^th, You may only sign up for two, one-week sessions at a time. Lessons are taught on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday and will be 20 minutes in length. One-week sessions consist of four lessons (80 minutes of total instruction). This guideline is important because lessons should not replace practice. Swimmers will learn plenty of new techniques to work on in practice at the end of a one-week session of lessons, and they will need time and space to do so. It is also necessary so that everyone has the opportunity to take lessons with the coach they want. As you finish one week of lessons, you may sign up for another week if space permits and the coach recommends it. Lesson sign-ups will begin by June 4^th.The cost of the lessons range from $35-$80 a session and are based on the level of coach who is instructing. Fees are payable by check to Orinda Park Pool.

Single 20-minute lessons are also available for $20 each. Fees are payable by check to Orinda Park Pool. If you would like to sign up for a single 20-minute lesson, you may do so for $20. Please indicate that you are only signing up for a single lesson on the sign-up sheet.

Time slots are available from 1:00-3:00 for swim team members and siblings, from 3:00-5:00 for Learn to Swim lessons, and then again from 5:20-6:00 for anyone. It is possible that swim team members may take lessons during the 3:00-5:00 hours, but this will depend on space availability. Lessons are taught on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday and will be 20 minutes in length. One-week sessions consist of four lessons (80 minutes of total instruction). The cost of the lessons will be based on the level of coach who is instructing.

Lessons with a Head Coach or Assnt. head Coach will be $80 a session.
Lessons with a Senior Coach will be $65 a session.
Lessons with a Coach will be $55 a session.
Lessons with Junior Coach will be $35 a session.

NEW TIME CHANGE: Free lessons are offered to young children of pool members between the ages of 3-5 years old and at the bubble blowing stage. Water safety and beginning skills are introduced. Lessons will begin the week of June 11th. Sign up sheets will be available on the bulletin board by the coaches office the week before lessons begin. The first free lesson sign ups will be posted on Sunday June 3rd. These lessons will run Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings from 10:00 - 11:30. Lessons will run for 15 minutes and will have a maximum of 3 in each group. These lessons are offered on a first come, first serve basis. Contact Meg Vaughn at vaughn_meg@sbcglobal.net if you have any further questions. The time change was at the request of parents from previous seasons because the earlier time was too cold in the water.

Learn to Swim (swim team and non-swim team members) Lessons sign up binders are now out on the desk by the coach's office. You may sign up for one week up until June 18, then you may have up to two weeks on the books. Space is first come first serve. Cost for each week is listed on the outside of each coach's binder. A check must be placed in the binder upon signing-up. Please make checks payable to Orinda Park Pool.