SCHOOL NAME

Abercrombie Primary School

DfE Number

830-2296

POOL

Queen’s Park

Meeting National Curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety.

 What do I report on?

 What should pupils know and do

 What percentage of your current

 Year 6 cohort swim Competently, 

 confidently and proficiently over a

 distance of at least 25 metres?

76%

· A continuous swim of more than 25 metres, without touching the side of the       pool or pool floor. Part of the swim should be completed in deep water.

· Strokes are as strong at the end as at the start

· Strokes are recognisable to an informed onlooker.

 Pupils choose stroke and start in the water, must be relaxed.

 What percentage of your current

 Year 6 cohort use a range of strokes 

 effectively, for example, front crawl,

 backstroke and breaststroke?

71%

 Children should be able to use a range of strokes, alternating on their front and   back, and adapt them for a range of purposes. Swimming strokes do not have to   be technically correct, but they need to be effective for the intended outcomes   to be successfully achieved.

 E.g. swim 15 metres using a range of strokes, with change of strokes to be   fluent, treading water using a breaststroke type action and sculling with hands.

 What percentage of your current

 Year 6 cohort perform safe self-

 rescue in different water – based

 situations?

62%

 Water Safety Message:

 Spot the Dangers

 Advice – take advice

 Friends – go with a friend

 Emergency- learn what to do in an emergency

 Children should know the dangers of water locally and nationally. Learn how and   why to use appropriate survival and self-rescue skills if they fall in by   accident, or get into difficulty and knowing what to do if others get into trouble.