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Update: registration is now open for summer 2024, fall 2024, winter 2025, and spring 2025
Patrol Awards
Lifesaving skills program for advanced swimmers aged 11+
Dive into Lifeguarding Excellence: Comprehensive Program for Advanced Swimmers
This program teaches advanced swimming students three levels of lifesaving skills set out by the Lifesaving Society: Rookie Patrol, Ranger Patrol, and Star Patrol.
Each of these categories focuses on a different set of essential lifesaving skills, including, First aid, Lifesaving kicks, and Safe victim removal
When:
Havergal Pool
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Tuesday & Thursday:
4:45pm - 5:30pm (ONLY in Spring)
5:30pm - 6:15pm
6:15pm - 7:00pm
7:00pm - 7:45pm
7:45pm - 8:30pm
Havergal Pool
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Saturdays & Sundays:
12:30pm - 1:15pm
1:15pm - 2:00pm
2:00pm - 2:45pm
2:45pm - 3:30pm
4:00pm - 4:45pm
4:45pm - 5:30pm
5:30pm - 6:15pm
What Will My Child Learn During Your Patrol Swimming Lessons?
This program gives students a solid foundation for future lifeguarding training, and it is suitable for advanced students who can preferably swim at a Swimmer 8 level. Students who are confident in their ability to swim with proper form and perform a variety of aquatic entries will learn how to apply these skills in lifesaving scenarios, continuing their stroke and endurance development while attaining new skills, including:
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Assessing conscious and unconscious victims
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Develop effective lifesaving kicks to move and support victims in the water
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Treating bone and joint injuries
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Front crawl – Advanced standards
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Back crawl – Advanced standards
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Breaststroke – Advanced standards
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Obstacle swims
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Develop powerful lifesaving kicks
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Timed object carries
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First aid
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Endurance training
The student-to-instructor ratio is 3:1