Swimming Outcomes
All children in Year 5 partake in weekly swimming lessons for approximately twenty weeks. The outcomes of these sessions are assessed and recorded below. We also assess their progress in Year 6 to help us ensure children leave our school having had the best opportunity to meet the National Curriculum swimming objectives, which are outlined below.
| National Curriculum swimming objectives | Percentage of Year 6 cohort who swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres. | Percentage of Year 6 cohort who use a range of strokes effectively. | Percentage of Year 6 cohort who perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations. |
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Academic Year 2018/2019 |
83% |
83% |
83% |
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Academic Year 2019/2020 |
78% | 83% | 93% |
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Academic Year 2019/2020 (Attainment impacted by Covid 19 in the academic year in which these children received their swimming. 8/20 sessions were able to take place) |
73% | 64% | N/A as lessons on safe self rescue were cancelled due to Covid 19 |
|
Academic Year 2021/2022 (These children received catch up swimming tuition in Year 6 as their Year 5 swimming curriculum was impacted by Covid) |
81% | 76% | 76% |
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Academic Year 2022/2023 |
85% | 81% | 79% |
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Academic Year 2023/2024 |
81% | 79% | 65% |
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Academic Year 2024/2025 |
79% | 79% | 85% |
| National Data Provided by Swim England for 2018 | 72% | 56% | 34% |