Year 6 - Swimming data 2024-2025

Swimming at Westfield School is important to us. As a life-saving skill we encourage all of our children to work towards achieving the National expectation of 25m unaided swimming.

Our sessions aim to:

• Build water confidence and buoyancy followed by the introduction of different strokes.
• Introduce different strokes
• Work on technique, stamina and speed to be more efficient in the pool.

Meeting national curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety.

Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres.

13%

Use a range of strokes effectively – for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke

13%

Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

13%