Swimming Report

Swimming and water safety

All schools must provide swimming instruction either in key stage 1 or key stage 2.

In particular, 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

 

(As taken from the Department for Education statutory guidance)

 

Swimming at St. Stephen's takes place at Blackburn Leisure Centre with children in year 3 receiving swimming lessons on a Thursday afternoon in the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms.  All children receive a one hour swimming lesson weekly for half of the year. 

In addition, we provide swimming booster sessions for the year 6 children to support the expected level of proficiency.