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Swimming and water safety (all years)

Swimming: an introduction to core aquatic skills and survival swimming

6 lessons

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  • Move: physical fitness
  • Think: knowledge of healthy, active living

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The unit provides an introduction to core aquatic skills by teaching buoyancy, floating and moving through water on their fronts and backs, whilst increasing physical fitness in the water. It develops pupils' ability to rotate in the water and teaches them how to breathe whilst swimming.

This swimming unit is the second in a series of four swimming units and is the first pool-based unit. This unit starts to develop pupils' ability to move through the water, ensuring confidence is being built and familiarity with the swimming pool is developed. Having already learnt the basic knowledge on land for arm and leg actions, this unit introduces the movement in the water. It builds on their knowledge of healthy, active lifestyles in the previous unit and begins to prepare them for competitive swimming in the next, by developing both stroke technique and physical fitness.

  1. Entry and exits, travel, buoyancy and balance
  2. Push and glides, streamlining
  3. Front paddle and floating
  4. Back paddle and floating
  5. Rotations whilst floating and whilst travelling and coordination
  6. Aquatic breathing, health and fitness

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