The STA Skills Development series of awards develops not only a competent swimmer but also water confidence. Special missions include synchronised swimming, water polo and diving. They use common lifesaving skills like treading water, floating, throwing, speed and agility.
Learning Outcomes
- Perform alternating bent knees from a back layout
- Adopt a tub position and rotate through 360 degrees from a back layout
- Swim 15 metres underwater through a hoop
- Perform a back/front tucked somersault from a back layout
- Scull head first for 10 metres and feet first for 10 metres
- Travel 5 metres to the left, rotate 180 degrees and travel 5 metres to the right
- Perform a step in entry
- Torpedo scull feet first for 10 metres
- Perform an Isle of Man
- Perform 2 pattern changes on or below the water surface
Learning Outcomes
- Perform a ballet leg position from a back layout
- Support scull whilst standing in shallow water
- Perform an Oyster from a back layout
- Canoe scull for 5 metres
- Perform 10 metres eggbeater in any direction, with choreographed arm movements
- Perform a pike position, using bottles for assistance
- Dolphin scull head first for 5 metres
- Perform a crane position, using bottles for support from a pike
- Perform side flutter kick for 10 metres followed by a surface dive
- Perform a routine to include: entry, eggbeater kick, one form of propulsion and a hybrid
Learning Outcomes
- Swim 20 metres front crawl head-up
- 20 metres head-up dribble
- Swim 20 metres change direction twice from front crawl head up to water polo backstroke
- Tread water for 1 minutes whist using hands to scull, pick up a ball in one hand and hold for 1 minute without the ball touching the water
- Tread water and use hands to scull, lift out of the water to the waist twice in 30 seconds
- Swim 20 metres flutter kick, 20 metres egg-beater, then 20 metres using a modified breastroke leg kick on the back
- Pass and receive the ball 4 times over a distance of 5 metres
- Pickup, throw, swim, then change direction with the ball
- Pass and receive the ball
- Swim 20 metres front crawl head up in 25 seconds, collect a ball, then dribble for 20 metres using a head up stroke in 45 seconds
Learning Outcomes
- Push and glide for 5 seconds
- Push and glide and recover an object from the bottom of the pool
- Push and glide and spring up from the pool floor
- Perform a handstand
- Perform a sitting dive
- Perform a kneeling dive
- Perform a squat dive
- Perform a crouch dive
- Perform a lunge dive
- Perform a plunge dive
