Swimming Competency

Our children access school swimming sessions at Guinea Gap Swimming Baths. For most of our children, school swimming sessions provide their first opportunity for a swimming session. 

The National Curriculum sets out that children should be able to:

• Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25m
• Use a range of strokes effectively - for example, breast stroke, backstroke and front crawl
• Perform self-rescue in different water situations

For the academic year 2022-2023, 46% of our children met the swimming competency requirements.