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Pocatello Community Recreation Center Swim Lessons & Dance Classes
Swim Lessons
Group Lessons
- Free Swim Assessment
- Group Lessons Schedule (PDF)
- Held at Ross Park Aquatic Complex
- Registration opens on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.
- REGISTER
Parent & Child Lessons
- Parent & Child Lessons Schedule (PDF)
- Held at Community Recreation Center
- Registration opens on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.
- REGISTER
Private/Semi-Private Lessons
Dance Classes
Fall 2021
- Dance Classes, Fall 2021 (PDF)
- Classes held September – December 2021
- Registration opens on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.
- REGISTER
COVID-19 Protocols
Private/Semi-Private Swim Lessons COVID-19 Protocols
Staff shall work in coordination with all Swim Instructors to inform parents and participants of the following list of criteria & protocol regarding social distancing, safety & sanitization procedures, and guidelines for classes.
- Instructors, participants and their families should self-monitor and stay at home if they have any COVID-19-like illness symptoms. Symptoms can include fever, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chills or shaking chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, and new loss of taste or smell. Symptoms may also include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and body aches. Not all people will have all symptoms.
- Instructors, participants and their parents may not enter the recreational area if either they or a household member has had onset of illness with symptoms compatible with, suspected, or lab-confirmed COVID-19.
- Instructors, participants and parents are required to wear a facial covering or mask while entering, and moving about the aquatic facility.
- Participants will not be allowed to wear masks once they enter the water.
- Instructors will wear plastic chin to nose ½ face shields to prevent breathing directly onto a participant.
- Instructors will use teaching aids wherever possible to place distance between themselves and the participant, all the while maintaining safety measures.
- Swim lessons will be limited to 6 children per lesson.
- Swim lessons for under 5 years old will be limited to 4 children per lesson.
- Swim Lessons instructors will socially distance swim lesson participants in the pool area to ensure their classes are appropriately spaced.
- Instructors shall disinfect items used during their swim lessons.
- Staff will highly encourage that each participant only be accompanied by 1 (one) parent, and that they remain masked while in the observation areas.
- All instructors, participants, and parents are encouraged to use proper respiratory etiquette by covering their nose and mouth with a tissue or using their sleeve if coughing or sneezing.
Dance Classes COVID-19 Protocols
- Instructors, participants, and their families should self-monitor and stay at home if they have any COVID-19-like illness symptoms. Symptoms can include fever, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chills or shaking chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, and new loss of taste or smell. Symptoms may also include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and body aches. Not all people will have all symptoms.
- Instructors, participants, and their parents may not enter the recreational area if either they or a household member has had onset of illness with symptoms compatible with, suspected, or lab-confirmed COVID-19 in the prior 14 days.
- Instructors, participants, and parent are required to wear a cloth facial covering or mask while entering and moving about in the Recreation Center and while remaining in the recreational area. Participants may remove their mask while participating in the actual dance class.
- Each child can only be accompanied by 1 (one) parent, if needed, and that parent must maintain a minimum of six (6) feet of physical distance from other non-family member individuals and are required to wear face masks.
- Participants and instructors shall sanitize their hands before entering and as they exit the dance room. (Sanitizer station located at the door).
- Class sizes will be limited to a maximum of 10 (ten) children (based on the size of the space and taking into consideration 6 feet of distancing).
- Dance rooms will have marks/boxes for dancers to use as a reference so social distancing can occur.
- Instructors are being asked to adjust their teaching methods to accommodate distancing and limiting group interactions.
- Instructors shall disinfect items touched or shared by more than one person at the end of each dance class.
- All instructors, participants, and parents are encouraged to use proper respiratory etiquette by covering their nose and mouth with a tissue or using their sleeve if coughing or sneezing.