School swimming
Useful information for schools in Northumberland
We are delighted to welcome you to our school swimming lesson programme which takes place at our leisure centre's in Northumberland.
We continue to deliver lessons for local school children which follows the Swim England school swimming and water safety charter. The charter has been designed to support schools in helping pupils reach the national curriculum standards by the end of Key Stage 2. It includes water safety, core aquactic skills and the three national curriculum PE swimming outcomes by the end of year 6:
- Safe self rescue - perform safe self-rescue in different water based situations
- Swim 25m - swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- Range of stroke - use a range of stroke effectively, for example, front crawl, backstroke and breastroke
For information on our school swimming agreement please click here
For information on our school swimming risk assessment please click here
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