Swimming
Swimming is not only a healthy activity, but acts as an essential life-skill. Unless completed at Key Stage 1, swimming and water safety are statutory activities at Key Stage 2 – designed to ensure children are able to swim unaided over a distance of at least 25 metres. Swimming is also one of ten work strands within the national PE, School Sport Strategy for Young People (PESSYP) strategy.
Top up swimming is an intervention designed to enable every child to achieve the KS2 standard in swimming at primary school. Pupils will be expected to develop the other range of skills related to the KS2 requirements, which are about general water confidence and water safety.
The extra lessons that top up swimming involves are designed to build on the existing swimming arrangements that a school should be running. It exists to support pupils during term time. Top up swimming can take different forms, please contact Sarah Lansdowne for more information.
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