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I just want to take a few minutes to say THANK YOU for such a wonderful day. My daughter and I attended John’s birthday party earlier today and I cannot get over how great you, your daughter and son were with the kids, how beautiful the room was, how friendly everyone was and your speech right before cake was the icing on MY cake. You are an old fashioned, genuine man who adores his family and loves kids. You dont find that very often nowadays. And for that, I just wanted to say THANK YOU.

I would recommend to anyone to have their children’s birthday party at your facility. Everything was so clean, so well run and the kids had a blast. I loved the fact that you were there to over see everything and your son and daughter were amazing with the children (and the parents).

It isn’t every day that I am impressed by a business or people like I was impressed by the Astoria Complex and you guys today. So I figured I would take the time to let you guys know that you are doing a spectacular job. My daughter talked about the party ALL DAY and I cannot wait to come back again.

I wish you nothing but continued success.

Noreen Hayes

Pee-Wee Classes

Consisting of three basic levels of beginner, medium, and advance. It is an integral part of the overall aquatics and water safety program. The objective of Pee-Wee is to promote the developmentally appropriate learning of fundamental water safety and aquatic skills by young children about 4 to 6 years of age. Skills are grouped into swimming and water safety categories. Children that need more practice will be placed in sub-category 2 of each level before moving on to the following level.

1.      Water Entry and Exit

2.      Breath control and submerging

3.      Buoyancy

4.      Changing direction and position

5.      Treading

6.      Swim on front and back

• Pee-Wee Beginner

Level 1 introduces the most basic swimming skills, which children continue to build on as they progress through our swimming program. At this level, children start developing good attitudes and sage practices around the water.

• Pee-Wee Medium

Level 1 the objectives of this level are to build on the basic swimming skills learned in the previous level and gives children further success with fundamental swimming skills performed to a slightly more advanced degree than of Beginner. Most skills in this level are performed with assistance. This level marks the beginning of independent swimming locomotion skills. Children continue to explore using simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back to gain more proficiency for further strokes. This level also adds to the self-help and basic rescue skills introduced in the beginner levels.

• Pee-Wee Advance

The objective of this level is to build on all the skills learn in the previous levels by providing additional guided practice of basic swimming skills at slightly more proficient performance levels and greater distances and times. Skills in this level are performed independently. Children improve coordination of combined simultaneous arm and leg actions and alternating arm and leg actions. Additional safety skills and improve comprehension of previous knowledge.

• Mommy and Me level 1

Level 1 introduces basic skills to parents and children. Parents are taught to safely work with their child in the water, including how to appropriately support and hold their child in the water and how to prepare and encourage their child to participate fully and try the skills. Children are introduced to basic skills that lay a foundation to help them learn to swim. Several water safety topics also are introduced that are directed to parents.

• Mommy and Me level 2

Level 2 builds on the skills introduced in level 1. Participants improve on these skills and learn more advanced skills in level 2.

Child, Adolescent, and Adult: Swimming Classes

Teaches swimming classes and personal water safety skills in a logical progression. It consists of six levels. Participants in Beginner 1 are oriented to the aquatics environment and gain some basic skills in each category. Throughout the levels, participants build on the basic skills to learn various propulsive movements on the front, back and side. As the levels increase, participants learn to refine the different strokes and build endurance. Each level includes exit skills assessments that put together many of the skills learned in each level.

• Beginner 1

The objectives of beginner 1 are to learn basic personal water safety information and skills, to help participants feel comfortable in the water and to enjoy the water safely. In beginner 1, the participants learn elementary aquatics skills. At this level, the participants start developing positive attitudes, good swimming habits and safe practices in and around water.

• Beginner 2

The objective of beginner 2 is to five participants success with fundamental skills. Participants learn to float without support and to recover to a vertical position. This level marks the beginning of truth locomotion skills. Participants further develop simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back that lay the foundation for future strokes. As in all levels, the participant will learn additional safety skills and improve comprehension of previous knowledge.

• Medium 1

The objective of Medium 1 is to build on previously learned skills by providing additional guided practice. Participants will learn survival float, swim and practice in depth the front crawl and elementary backstroke. Participants will be introduced to the scissors kick and dolphin kick and build on the fundamentals of treading water. Participants will also learn rules for headfirst entries and begin to learn to enter the water headfirst from a seated position at poolside.

• Medium 2

The objectives of medium 2 are to develop participants’ confidence in the strokes learned thus far and to improve other swimming skills. In Medium 2 participants improve their skills and increase their endurance by swimming familiar strokes for greater distances. Participants add the arms to the scissors kick for sidestroke. Participants also continue developing the back crawl, breaststroke and butterfly and the basics of turning at a wall.

• Advance

The objective of this level is to develop coordination and refinement of strokes. Participants refine their performance of all the strokes (frontal crawl, back crawl, butterfly, breaststroke, elementary backstroke and sidestroke) and increase their distances. Flip turns on the front and back are also introduced