Rookie Lifeguards is aimed at 8-12 year-olds to provide a fun and safe way to learn lifesaving skills and water safety from qualified and registered Rookie Lifeguard Trainers.
As a Rookie you will learn about water safety and will equip you with the skills which could help you save a life.
Rookie Lifeguard helps children to build their confidence, develop teamwork skills, and foster leadership. If you’re looking for a fun, engaging and active programme for your child or to add to your activity schedule, you’ve found it!
The program is divided into 3 stages: Bronze, Silver and Gold, where Rookies can work towards achieving badges and certificates at each stage.
Prerequisites for the Rookie Lifeguard Pool Programme
- The programme is ideal for children aged 8-12 years.
- Swim 25 metres front and back stroke
- Swim on their back
- Swim breast stroke
- Tread water for 1 minute and signal for help
Course Dates: Tuesday 4th – Friday 7th August
Course Times: 11am – 2pm
Course Price: €85 for Tuesday to Friday (€10 sibling discount available at checkout)
More details for each stage of the Rookie Lifeguard Pool programme:
Bronze Stage Awards 1-3
During the Bronze Stages of the Rookie Lifeguard Pool programme, children learn and complete the following skills:
- Enter shallow water safely and confidently and wade
- Tread water and signal for help
- Swim continuously in clothing for 50m
- Swim Lifesaving Backstroke
- Scull head and feet- first
- Hold the ‘HELP’ position
- Demonstrate a non-swimmer, weak swimmer, and an unconscious casualty
- Demonstrate a ‘Shout and Signal’ rescue
- Throw an aid
- Demonstrate a reach rescue
- Enter deep water safely and confidently
- Perform a feet-first surface dive and swim underwater
- Climb out in deep water without using the steps
Silver Stage Awards 1-3
During the Silver Stages of the Rookie Lifeguard Pool programme, children learn and complete the following skills:
- Swim continuously in clothing for 200m on your front and back
- Demonstrate a reaching rescue
- Throw a buoyant aid to a casualty 8m away
- Enter shallow water and wade to a casualty
- Using a throwing aid, instruct the casualty on what to do
- Using a rigid aid, instruct the casualty on what to do
- The support position
- Tread water for 3 minutes
- Swimming, surface dives and object recovery
- Shallow turn and rescue an ‘unconscious casualty’
- Coil and throw a rope to a casualty 10m away and pull it to the side in less than 45 seconds
- Enter deep water using a straddle jump
- Demonstrate a fall-in entry into clear, deep water
- Swim 20m continuously with your head out of the water on your front
Gold Stage Awards 1-3
During the Gold Stages of the Rookie Lifeguard Pool programme, children learn and complete the following skills:
- Coil and throw a rope to a casualty and pull to the side
- Swim 400m continuously in clothing
- Demonstrate Lifesaving Backstroke, Sidestroke, Breaststroke or Front Crawl
- Tread water, remove clothing, then swim 50m
- Climb out of deep water unaided
- Demonstrate fall-in, compact jump or shallow dive
- Demonstrate a Reverse
- Demonstrate a Standoff
- Rescue an unconscious casualty at depth in less than 2 minutes 30 seconds
- Demonstrate supported rescue breathing whilst waiting for help
- Demonstrate the support position
- Demonstrate non-contact rescues
- Treat for shock
- Hand signals
- Using any recognised competitive stroke, swim 400m continuously, in less than 12 minutes