Pocatello Community Recreation Center Swim Lessons & Dance Classes

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.