Do you know someone who goes above and beyond for our community? Is there a local group or individual who has made a real difference in Northern Grampians Shire this year? Now is the time to recognise them. Nominations are open for the 2026 Australia Day Awards, until December 5.
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At December's council meeting in St Arnaud, council resolved to review future community care service options in light of sweeping aged care sector reforms. The decision follows Federal Government changes to the way aged care services are funded and delivered, with new rules coming into effect in November. You can find more via the link below.
2024 Swim & Survive Partner of the Year
Our Swim and Survive program is delivered by qualified swim teachers who ensure that essential water safety, personal survival and basic rescue skills are taught to all enrolled students. Our teachers make lessons fun, while helping all participants develop a strong and effective swimming techniques.
Swim and Survive is a water safety initiative provided by Royal Life Saving Victoria and designed to increase swimming and water safety skills of all Australian children in order to prevent drowning and increase participation in safe aquatic activity.
Learn to swim, swimming lessons, and infant aquatics are all terms commonly used across the aquatic industry for programs that seek to build swimming skills. Swim and Survive is all of these, but most importantly it provides a level of protection for children by helping to equip them with solid foundation skills in swimming, survival and basic rescue.
The Little Wonder program is for infants and preschoolers. The program allows students to learn skills that align with motor skills learnt at each development age.
Little Wonder | Level 1: water familiarisation program for parents and their children aged 6 months to 12 months.
Little Wonder | Level 2: water familiarisation program for parents and their children aged 1 to 2 years.
Little Wonder | Level 3: water familiarisation program for parents and their children aged 2 to 3 years.
Little Wonder | Level 4: transitional class for children aged 3 to 4 years.
Interested in enrolling your child in our Little Wonder Program? Simply give us a call on 03 5358 0550 or by emailing leisure.services@ngshire.vic.gov.au for further information.
The Learn to Swim program is for children aged 4 years and above. The students in this program will work through Levels 1 - 12. See below for further information on each level and the milestones students need to reach before they can progress further.
We also offer a squad program; the squad class is a one-hour long session and is for any student that has completed Level 7 and above in our program.
Struggling to see the below pathway information? You can download the material as a PDF here - Learn-to-Swim-Program-Levels-and-Pathways.pdf(PDF, 3MB)
Youth Swimming Lessons
Our youth program caters for children 10 to 17 years with a focus on bridging the gap with their swimming skills while creating a welcoming space for older students free from potential unease about learning a skill which their peers may already be confident with. This will allow children to learn to swim with other people of a similar age and experience level, instead of being placed into a lesson based on their skill level which will likely be with younger students.
Simply give us a call on 03 5358 0550 or by emailing leisure.services@ngshire.vic.gov.au for further information.