STA Level 2 Award in Aquatic Teaching - Baby & Pre-School

The Baby and Pre-School qualification aims to produce teachers that can teach aquatic activities, including paddle strokes to babies and pre-school children during adult and children lessons.

They are able to deliver the STA Starfish programme up to the STAnley Series of STA’s International Learn to Swim Programme.

Baby and pre-school swimming teachers are able to seek employment in a wide variety of leisure facilities including private health clubs, school swimming pools through to large local authority leisure centres. As a baby and pre-school teacher you would be responsible for planning, delivering and evaluating a series of progressive and fun swimming lessons teaching babies, toddlers and their accompanying adults a range of basic aquatic and safety skills such as floating, rotation, submersion and basic swimming strokes. You would be responsible for ensuring the lesson area and appropriate equipment was safe and promoted good teaching and learning.

Pre-Requisites:

• Be 18 years of age or older
• Hold current membership of STA
• Hold the Safety Award for Teachers or acceptable equivalent
• Hold the STA Safeguarding Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults certificate or acceptable equivalent

Further Information:

Further information regarding this qualification can be obtained by contact us at LAC Training or by clicking on the links below which will redirect you to Safety Training Award's website for the qualfication specification.