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Swim Classes in Philadelphia, PA

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GPAC Swim School, Greater Philadelphia & South Jersey:
Established in 2009, The Greater Philadelphia Aquatic Club (GPAC) Swim School provides group swim classes and private lessons to young children (ages 4+) from the Greater Philadelphia and South Jersey area. Our swim classes are held at the Gloucester County Institute of Technology in Sewell, NJ. Our aim is to help young children of all swimming abilities to become more familiar around water and more proficient with their swimming skills. Our swim lessons are offered in a group format and we keep our class sizes small with no more than four swimmers per instructor.

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Swim Lessons for Kids Ages 4+

Group Swim Classes:
Our lesson instructors will be following a detailed lesson plan and will be required to give parents/guardians progress updates throughout the course of the session. Instructors are available for brief questions for five minutes before and after each lesson. 

Level 1 Goals:
- Begin to develop water safety skills.
- Become comfortable in the water without assistance.
- Begin to learn basic swimming skills including floating and kicking.

Level 2 Goals:
- Continue to develop water safety skills.
- Begin to develop proper technique for both freestyle and backstroke.

Level 3 Goals:
- Further development of freestyle and backstroke as well as the introduction of butterfly. 
- Successfully complete NJ State Deep Water Test (25 yards of controlled freestyle swim followed by treading water for 2 minutes).

Level 4 Goals:
- Further development of freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and introduction of breaststroke.
- Begin acclimation to deep water (deeper than 6 feet).

Each child will have to achieve all requirements of their current level before moving to the next level. It is entirely possible that a child will have to remain in a level for more than one session in order to accomplish all objectives of that level.

Private / Semi-Private Swim Instruction:
Private and semi-private swim lessons are scheduled by the instructor and family at their mutual convenience. Private classes are booked in blocks of 6 x 30 minute lessons.

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