With recent National Water Safety Reports highlighting critical benchmarks for children's aquatic skills (and revealing that many young swimmers fall below essential competency levels) equipping kids with vital water safety instincts has never been more urgent.
As warmer weather approaches, families are gearing up for sunny days by backyard pools, trips to the beach, and weekends along local waterways. To make sure young swimmers are completely safe, confident, and capable when summer arrives, BlueFit Swimming is encouraging parents to increase their children's swim lesson frequency to twice a week throughout Spring.
While once-a-week lessons are great for steady progress, increasing frequency to two lessons per week in the lead-up to summer dramatically accelerates a child's skill retention, confidence, and overall water safety.
Stepping up to a twice-weekly routine gives young swimmers a distinct advantage before the summer rush begins, such as:
Faster Skill Retention:
Swimming relies heavily on muscle memory. Shorter gaps between lessons mean less time recapping old skills and more time mastering essentials like floating, breath control, and treading water.
Building Summer Stamina:
Hours of play in dynamic environments like ocean waves or deep pools require real physical endurance. Twice-weekly sessions build the core strength and fitness children need to prevent water fatigue.
Overcoming Hesitation & Building Confidence:
For nervous swimmers, a frequent routine removes anxiety and replaces it with rapid confidence, ensuring they enter the water with self-assurance during holiday pool parties and beach outings.
Preparing children for a fun, active summer goes hand in hand with water awareness. Salisbury’s Swim School Manager Gabrielle sees firsthand how increasing lesson frequency in Spring gives kids a crucial advantage on the water’s edge. With summer in Australia being all about enjoying our pools, beaches, and waterways, they note exactly how increasing swim lessons right now gives kids the ultimate edge heading into the season:
“Being aware of what to do and why will come naturally when children find themselves in a life-saving scenario. When children are first put into a freak accident, their first reaction is to panic. By learning and practicing multiple times during a week, children will naturally perform the safety skills to help save their life.
Gabrielle adds,
It can also show children how to recognise when someone is in need of help. Children should be able to call for help for others at a young age, these are skills that are taught in swimming lessons that can help save a life."
It’s easy to wonder if adding another activity to a busy family schedule during Spring is worth the extra effort. In reality, stepping up your swim frequency delivers remarkable safety and physical benefits that far outweigh the short-term scheduling push. Investing a little extra time now creates automatic safety instincts and lifelong confidence in the water, providing parents with lasting peace of mind and laying the foundation for a fun, stress-free summer.
For parents hesitant about adding another activity to their weekly routine, Gabrielle shares the long-term safety payoff of making that short-term twice-a-week push during Spring:
"Parents should be encouraged to have their child do multiple lessons as the Australian Summer, people are drawn to the water. These environments can change quickly with rips in the ocean, strong currents in rivers, a lots of people in local pools. By having multiple lessons in a week, it gives children a stimulating way to cool off and learn. If children have multiple lessons between the age of 1 – 4 it reduces the risk of drowning by 88%."
Two classes a week this Spring delivers a lifetime of water safety! Supercharge your child's progress and get $50 OFF when you add a second weekly lesson between September 1st and October 31st, 2026.
Claim your discount and help them dive into summer safely at Salisbury Aquatic Centre here.
