Swimming

All pupils in Year 3 are provided with the opportunity to participate in swimming provision. In addition, any pupils in older year groups who are identified as non-swimmers are included. Pupils attend a week-long intensive swimming programme delivered at NK, designed to develop water confidence and secure essential swimming competencies.

The National Curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety are as follows:

• • 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 situation

100% of our previous Year 6 have met this requirement. (May 2026)