John Hampden Primary School – Swimming Report 2021-22

The National Curriculum states:

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

Swimming at John Hampden Primary School:

At John Hampden, pupils in Years 4-6 attend a swimming program per academic year, regardless of their swimming ability. This ensures that all children are given the opportunity to develop and improve their swimming ability during these school years (they work within ability groups alongside three qualified instructors). In addition to this, pupils from across Years 5 and 6 who haven’t achieved their 25m distance during their curriculum swimming time, will attend an additional program of ‘top-up’ swimming lessons. Pupils are assessed at the end of each swimming program, which will inform planning of future sessions. All pupils learn about how to keep themselves and others safe, both in and around water. Our instructors deliver specific water safety sessions during the summer term. Specialised self-rescue lessons are not covered, but water safety is a key learning element that runs through all swimming sessions.

Assessment of Pupils (from 2021-22 academic year):

In 2021-22, all pupils in Years 4-6 attended a week of daily swimming sessions (5 hours). In addition, Y5 and Y6 pupils who did not meet the KS2 learning outcomes in their initial year group swimming curriculum time attended ‘top-up’ swimming sessions for another week during Term 3. Assessment information for Y6 pupils (60 pupils) after the ‘top-up’ sessions had taken place is set out below.

Number of pupils who can swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres, using a range of strokes effectively	56
Number of pupils who can swim 10-20 metres (these pupils would continue lessons in summer terms)	2
Number of pupils who are non-swimmers (below 10m) (these pupils would continue lessons in summer terms)	2