Angelfish

For children who have completed Goldfish 3 and achieved their 100m distance award. This series progresses up to 600m
This series follows the Goldfish series and builds your child’s distance skill up to swimming 600m without aids. Children will also learn the butterfly stroke, tumble turns, sculling techniques, and more advanced entries to the water.
Swimmers will be independent in the water for Angelfish lessons
  • There are 3 badges in this series
  •  and 4 distance awards.

Please click on the badges to view the skills list.

Angelfish 3

Angelfish Badge 3
  • 1. Be rescued by catching a rope
  • 2. Perform a straddle entry and tread water for 30 seconds while wearing a T-shirt. Remove the T-shirt and climb out unassisted. If the water is too shallow, substitute step entry and support scull
  • 3. Perform a head-first and feet-first surface dive. If in shallow water, perform an underwater push and glide to pool floor
  • 4. Scull feet first for 10 metres and head first for 10 metres
  • 5. Swim 25 metres of back crawl using a correct finish
  • 6. Swim 25 metres of a recognised front stroke, incorporating a correct finish. Learner’s first choice
  • 7. Swim 20 metres of recognised front stroke, incorporating a correct finish. Learner’s second choice
  • 8. Swim 5 metres of butterfly
  • 9. Push and glide into a handstand – must be performed in tummy-deep or to chest-deep water
  • 10. Perform a sitting dive, depending on the depth of water. If in shallow water, perform underwater push and glide, roll onto back while underwater and surface in a back glide
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