Orono Community Education

If you are a new family to Orono Community Education’s swimming lessons, we encourage you to schedule a swimming pre-assessment to determine the best level for your swimmer.
Pre-assessments take place at the Orono pool. Instructors will guide your swimmer through a set of skills in a 15-minute period.

Summer pre-assessments will take place in early March. 

Please limit registration to one swim camp per child for Summer. 

Stroke Improvement

Course Content: Develops confidence and improves skills.

Skills covered include: headfirst entries from side in compact and stride positions, swim under water, feet first surface dive, front and back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and butterfly, flutter and dolphin kicks on back and age-appropriate water safety topics.

Exit Skills: Perform a feet first entry into deep water, swim front crawl for 25 yards, change direction and position as necessary and swim elementary backstroke for 25 yards. Swim breaststroke for 15 yards, change direction and position as necessary and swim back crawl for 15 yards.

Sign up for Level 4 if:
• Comfortable in deep water
• Swims at least 15 yards coordinated: front crawl, back crawl and knows dolphin kick and breaststroke kick.

Curriculum and levels are based on the Red Cross' Learn-to-Swim Program. For questions about what level your child should register for, refer to our descriptions.

• Locker rooms will not be available for use. Swimmers should arrive already prepared to swim.