Swimming

All children are able to access weekly swimming lessons in KS2.  

The National Curriculum requires that children are able to:

- swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres

- use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke]

- perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

In our school, this is delivered through ensuring that children are able to complete the following tasks:

Swimming Standards

Academic Year 2021-21

Year 6 Cohort:

• 96% 42/44 (March 2020) can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.
• 96% 42/22 (March 2020) can use a range of strokes effectively.
• 96% 42/44 (March 2020) can perform safe self-rescue in different water based situations.

September 2018

Currently, 97.4% of our Year 6 cohort have met the standards above.