Swimming
Our Swimming sessions are run by Mrs Beamish and Ms McGrath who are a qualified swimming teacher and an Assistant Swimming Teacher.
As a school we have access to the Swimarium swimming pool every Friday.
Years 1-6 get a full term of swimming lessons per year. This is currently split into 2 half terms to ensure that there is not too much of a gap between their time in the pool.
Each class attends the pool together, where they are split into 3 groups depending on their ability. We follow the Swimming Teachers Association (STA) School Swimming Academy award scheme. There are 8 awards and through structured swimming lessons, the children learn water confidence, stroke development and water safety.
Our aim is for the children to leave in Year 6 being able to swim competently for 25m, use a range of strokes and be able to perform a safe self-rescue.