Swimming
Higher Bebington Junior School
Swimming
Information for Parents
We provide swimming instruction in key stage 2 to our children in years 4 and 5. Additional swimming lessons are then provided in year 6 to those children who have not met the National Curriculum standard in the previous years. We do this because we recognise that swimming is an important life skill and we want all children to be confident and safe in the water.
The National Curriculum requirements for swimming states that pupils should be taught to:
swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
Lesson Organisation
Our lessons are provided by Edsential and delivered at the Oval Leisure Centre. Due to Covid-19, they have been unable to take place since March 2020, however they are due to return in Autumn 2021.
The children have a two week block of swimming and current dates are as follows:
Autumn
Weeks commencing 4th & 11th October (Two Year 4 classes) 2.30pm-3.00pm
Spring
Weeks commencing 14th & 21st March (Remaining Year 4 class and one Year 5 class) 2.30pm-3.00pm
Summer
Weeks commencing 2nd & 9th May (Two Year 5 classes) 1.30pm-2.30pm
Additional Year 6 swimming
Weeks commencing 16th & 23rd May 1.30pm-2.30pm
Swimming Kit
All children must have either swimming trunks or wear a one-piece swim suit which fully covers the stomach area. The pool instructors will prevent children from swimming if they do not have the correct swimwear.
School Swimming Results
2020-2021
Due to Covid-19 restrictions- which included the Oval Leisure Centre being closed due to Tier 3 restrictions and then being used as a test and vaccination centre- school swimming lessons were unable to take place. The Year 6 cohort therefore have no swimming data, as only one of the three classes was able to go swimming in the previous year due to school closures.
2019-2020
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, only one of our Year 5 classes were able to undertake swimming lessons this year and no Year 6 classes. There is therefore no data available
2018-2019
79% of our Year 6 cohort met the national curriculum requirement to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres, using a range of strokes effectively (for example, front crawl, backstroke and beast stroke) and performing safe self-rescue in different water-based situations. This was the first year that we had invested in additional swimming lessons for Year 6 pupils and there was a pleasing increase from previous year.
2017-2018
58% of our Year 6 cohort met the national curriculum requirement to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres, using a range of strokes effectively and performing safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.
