Swimming 

Please ensure that your child has the appropriate clothing for swimming lessons. We have been advised by Cocks Moors Leisure Centre that the appropriate clothing when swimming is:

• Swimming costume
• Trunks or swimming shorts (with an inner lining), which have been sold specifically as swim wear. The leg length should be above the knee.
• Long hair must be tied back or a swimming hat can be worn.

When swimming, children will be leaving school just after morning registration and will return to school by 10.40am. 

Swimming timetable

Meeting national requirements for swimming and water safety.

St Alban's is required to publish the percentage of pupils, within our Year 6 cohort, who met the national curriculum requirement to:

• swim competently, confidently, and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
• use a range of strokes effectively
• perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
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What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres? N.B. Even though your pupils may swim in another year please report on their attainment on leaving primary school at the end of the summer term 2022. - 79%

What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]? 

52%

What percentage of your current Year 6 cohort perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations? 79%