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Pocatello Community Recreation Center Swim Lessons & Dance Classes
Swim Lessons
Group swim lessons are canceled until further notice (tentatively starting again in January). However, we have been approved by the Southeastern Idaho Health Department to hold Private/Semi-Private Lessons. Lessons will begin the week of September 21, 2020.
Private/Semi-Private Lessons
Dance Classes
- Current Schedule (PDF)
Registration for Fall 2020 classes in progress - REGISTER
COVID-19 Protocols
Private/Semi-Private Swim Lessons 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 will perform a health check with the parents to make sure their household has not been experiencing any symptoms. Participants will be rescheduled as needed.
- Instructors, participants, and parents are required to wear a cloth facial covering or mask while entering and moving about in the Community Recreation Center, as well as while remaining in the recreational/private swim lesson area.
NOTE: Participants will not be allowed to wear masks once they enter the water. - Instructors will wear plastic chin to nose half-face shields to prevent breathing directly onto a participant.
- Instructors will use teaching aids as much as possible to place distance between themselves and the participant, all the while maintaining safety measures.
- Staff will enforce that each participant only be accompanied by 1 (one) parent and that they (parents) remain masked while in the facility.
- Participants and instructors shall sanitize their hands before entering and as they exit the pool area. (Sanitizer station located at the door).
- Private lessons will be limited to 1 child.
- Semi-private lessons will be limited to one family unit (2 children maximum).
- Private lesson instructors will be responsible for social distancing in the pool area to ensure they remain 6 feet away from other pool users.
- Instructors shall, after each lesson, disinfect items used during their private lessons.
- 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.