Swimming and water safety: National Curriculum extract:
All schools must provide swimming instruction within Key stage 1 or Key stage 2.
Pupils should be taught how to:
- swim competently, confidently, and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- use a range of strokes effectively such as front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke
- perform self-safe rescue in different water-based situations
School swimming provision:
The majority of primary and SEND schools in the county contract our school swimming service to co-ordinate and deliver their swimming lessons.
Our primary school swimming programme will ensure that children are given the opportunity of learning to swim in a safe environment. We provide a continuous progressive programme of work, so children should develop their confidence, swimming, and water safety skills and attained the requirements for National Curriculum swimming by the time they reach the end of key stage 2.
Contacts for further information:
Parents of Derbyshire pupils should contact their child’s school who are best placed to advise on the details of their swimming offer.