Learn To Swim
Helping kids learn to swim is what we do best. Our carefully designed TSR syllabus focuses on building a strong foundation and water confidence, perfecting swim techniques before striving for
swim excellence to improve speed and endurance.
We believe that all kids should enjoy the process of learning. We want them to enjoy swimming because swimming is not only a lifelong skill, it can also be a lifestyle.
The Swimming Room Swim Syllabus (refer to A) is a unique and comprehensive curriculum designed by our team of experienced coaches - to mould any individual from a complete beginner to a competent swimmer. Every lesson is personalized to each student’s pace and abilities where we not only want to teach the skills, but we want to cultivate the joy of swimming. To ensure the currency and relevance of our syllabus, our coaches regularly review and fine-tune its contents and pedagogies used to coach and engageour students. Furthermore, all our students are fully prepared for the SwimSafer tests and certifications (refer to B).
(A) What is TSR Swim Syllabus?
TSR Syllabus consists of 8 Levels:
Level 1: Water Familiarisation
Level 2: Water Confidence
Level 3: Breath Managment
Level 4: Frontcrawl
Level 5: Breaststroke
Level 6: Backstroke
Level 7: Butterfly
Level 8: Speed & Endurance
Levels 1-3 are catagorised under Swim Foundation. Here, we focus on the basics and fundamentals of swimming where students are introduced to water safety as they familiarised themselves around the pool and water.Their confidence in the water slowly builds, as they learn new skills and basic survival techniques followed by breath management which is the basis to learning the swim strokes in their next progression.
Levels 4-7 are categorised under Swim Techniques. At these 4 levels, students will be learning the 4 recognised swimming strokes - Frontcrawl, Breaststroke, Backstroke and Butterfly. The focus will be on swiming techniques, stroke correction and refinement and also skills sets which enables them to do competitive swimming as well as SwimSafer.
Level 8 is categorised under Swim Excellence. Students should be competent in all four swim strokes and will be further refining their stroke techniques to meet distances and time. The focus will be on speed and endurance.
(B) What is SwimSafer?
SwimSafer consist of 6 Levels
SwimSafer Stage 1
SwimSafer Stage 2
SwimSafer Stage 3
SwimSafer is a national water safety program developed to raise the standard of swimming proficiency in Singapore.
It is the only programme recognised by local schools and institutions. Hence The Swimming Room Swim Syllabus is designed to fully equip all our students with the necessary skills sets for SwimSafer’s Certifications (SwimSafer Tests and Certifications are optional). This means that at the end of the course with The Swimming Room, a TSR student will have the ability to complete SwimSafer Gold Award if he/she wishes to do so.
The newly revised SwimSafer 2.0 programme aims to teach children and adults to be safe in, on and around the water and to swim well.
The next SwimSafer tests conducted by The Swimming Room will be scheduled in March:
TSR Swim Tests
Our coaches will be teaching and tracking student's progress based on this syllabus.
They will also be updating in the online system which parents will be able to log in
to to check their children's progress.
TSR Tests (Internal Swim Tests) will be conducted termly for all TSR students from Level 4 onwards.
Parents and students will be informed to attend the specific test based on their progression.
Certificates will be awarded when students pass their tests!
Below are details of the 8 courses in our swimming syllabus.
At the end of Swim Foundation course, you will be awarded a TSR Certificate of Completion
and will be eligible to take SwimSafer Stage 1 Test (Optional).
In this course, at the end of each Level, you will be required to take our TSR Swim Test.
A TSR Certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of the test and you will also be eligible for SwimSafer Stage 2 test onwards.
There will be 8 Advanced TSR Skills Tests and TSR Achievement Badges will be awarded upon successful completion of these test.
At this stage, you will also be eligible to take the SwimSafer Gold Test.