Orinda
Park Pool offers swim lessons to children of all age levels, beginning
Monday, June 16th.
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 swim team members and
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 (not available
to swim team members) 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.
Only one week of free lessons per swimmer for the summer.
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 the Lesson Coordinator
have 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 Stephanie
Rinquist. You can contact her at
vamns@comcast.net with payment questions. Please contact the coaches
directly for changes or cancellation notices.
Lessons
will begin the week of June 16th and
will be offered for seven weeks through the end of July. Sign-ups will begin
June 8th. Each family will be limited to 1 week of lessons per child
until June 23rd. . This will allow more families to
participate in lessons. After June 23rd , 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 8th.
The cost of the lessons range from $35-$100 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 will be $100 a session.
- Lessons
with an Age Group Coach will be $80.00
- 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.
- *charges
subject to change – exact charges will be listed on outside of coaches
binders
Free
lessons
(not available to swim team members) will begin the week of June 16th.
They 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.
Sign
up sheets will be available on the bulletin board by the coach’s office
the week before the lessons begin. These
lessons will run Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings from 10-11:30.
Lessons will run for 15 minutes with a group of four in a lesson.
There will be eight available spaces for each time slot. These lessons are
offered on a first come, first serve basis.
Each swimmer is only allocated one week of free lessons for the
summer .