School Swimming

All of our Year 4 children attend swimming lessons on site during the Spring Term. We are partnering with Dream Big Sports, who will install the pool and provide swimming instructors and life guards. This will save a lots of time as we are no longer travelling to the swimming pool. It will also allow us to provide extra swimming lessons for pupils in Year 5 and Year 6 who did not pass the requirements in Year 4. Learning about water safety and knowing how to keep safe in water is a life skill, and as such is recognised and measured in the same ways as other key subjects. All pupils in Year 4 must join in with swimming as it is a national curriculum subject.

The aims of the swimming lessons are:

to ensure all Stanley Grove children (Year 4 and above) can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.
Use a range of strokes effectively
Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

What % of your current Year 6 cohort swim competently. confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres?	70%
What % of your current Year 6 cohort use a range of strokes effectively (For example front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke)?	51%
What % of your current Year 6 cohort perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations	50%
What % of your current Year 5 cohort swim competently. confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres?	89%
What % of your current Year 5 cohort use a range of strokes effectively (For example front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke)?	79%
What % of your current Year 5 cohort perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations	79%
Schools can choose to use the Primary PE and Sport Premium to provide additional provision for swimming but this must be for activity over and above the national curriculum requirements. Have you used it in this way?	No

Mobility is high at Stanley Grove Academy in particular in Year 5/6. Stanley Grove Academy, we provide swimming lessons for all Year 4 pupils as well as a catch-up programme for pupils in Year 5 and 6.