Swimming Assessment

Swimming Assessment for the past 3 academic years (2020-21, 2021-22 & 2022-23)

In the 2020-21 academic year, the Co-vid pandemic and its changing guidelines and requirements meant that we were unable to deliver school swimming lessons for any of our children during the academic year, despite arranging several times to do so.

In the 2021-22 academic year, we delivered swimming lessons for Y3-6 children. We scheduled to deliver swimming lessons for Y2 children, but cancellations to swimming lessons at the beginning of the academic year meant that Y2 could no longer attend. We did deliver extra swimming lessons for those Y6 children not meeting the expected guidelines set by the government. The table below shows the achievements of our children before and after the extra swimming lessons:

In the 2022-23 academic year, we delivered swimming lessons for Y4-Y6 children, meaning all children received at least 6 weeks of lessons. However, due to the success in previous years of our ‘Y6 Booster Sessions’, below age related expectation children from Y4-6 received a further 6 weeks of lessons. This model did mean that Y3 children did not get the opportunity to swim, but the long term impact of this decision will be that children could receive a maximum of 36 weeks of swimming lessons instead of 24 weeks, thus giving them more opportunity to meet the end of KS2 expectations for swimming. The table below shows the achievements of our Y6 children before and after the extra swimming lessons: