Water Safety

Water Safety

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Water Safety
  • Water safety education

    Make a splash with water safety education that's as enjoyable as it is informative! Introducing our brand-new child-friendly water safety resource video, starring the one and only Oscar the Otter as your trusty guide, brought to you by the generosity of Inclusion 2024.
    Why Oscar, you ask? Well, ...

  • Providing a safe swimming lesson environment and controlling costs

    Within this video Jo Talbot and Sharon Hunter run through the importance of providing a safe swimming lesson environment and controlling costs associated with these lessons. They begin by discussing why safety is important in swimming lessons and discuss how a safe swimming lesson environment can...

  • Introduction to the Swimming Competency campaign

    The Swim England Learn to Swim Programme is about developing confident and competent swimmers, the Learn to Swim Stages 4-7 form the second part of this core programme, and each of these stages contain a water competency outcome.

    Swim England’s minimum water competency standards give parents and...

  • Competency Float to live

    Swim England released four minimum water competency standards to enable parents and guardians of children learning to swim to understand the important skills that children should learn before they are removed from swimming lessons.

    • Perform a star float for 60 seconds
    • Tread water for at leas...

  • Competency Swim in clothing

    Swim England released four minimum water competency standards to enable parents and guardians of children learning to swim to understand the important skills that children should learn before they are removed from swimming lessons.

    • Perform a star float for 60 seconds
    • Tread water for at leas...

  • Competency Swim 100 metres

    Swim England released four minimum water competency standards to enable parents and guardians of children learning to swim to understand the important skills that children should learn before they are removed from swimming lessons.

    • Perform a star float for 60 seconds
    • Tread water for at leas...

  • Competency Tread water for 30 seconds

    Swim England released four minimum water competency standards to enable parents and guardians of children learning to swim to understand the important skills that children should learn before they are removed from swimming lessons.

    • Perform a star float for 60 seconds
    • Tread water for at leas...

  • Introduction to Water Safety Awards

    The Swim England Water Safety Awards are complementary Awards available to learners who are undertaking the Learn to Swim Stages 1-7 of the Swim England Learn to Swim Programme.

    There are three Water Safety Awards covering essential skills in water safety, personal survival and self-rescue. Thes...

  • Using lifesaving to retain swimmers

  • Teaching in low resource settings