Show your support for primary schools with the Swimming Safety Pledge

• Make sure you are utilising your PE and Sport Premium to give staff the skills they need to deliver swimming and water safety lessons. The Premium can also be used to provide Top-up lessons for young people who may be struggling.
• Talk to other schools about sharing transport costs or facilities.
• Check and challenge your lesson provider to ensure they are teaching the national curriculum requirements.
• Sign up to national water safety initiatives to support your lessons.

• Check and challenge your primary school about their swimming and water safety programme, and attainment figures.
• All primary schools must publish information about their swimming and water safety attainment levels - check your school does this.
• Check and challenge your school about their use of the PE and Sport Premium - are they making the most of it?

Primary schools have to deliver swimming and water safety lessons to all pupils during Key Stage 1 or 2. This could be one lesson a week for a term, or an intensive two/three week programme where they swim everyday.

• Check and challenge your school; ask them about their swimming and water safety provision and attainment figures. Are they good enough?
• If your school does provide lessons, are you aware of your child's ability in the three areas of the national curriculum programme?

• Talk to your local schools about their swimming needs.
• Make sure your swimming teachers know what pupils require to meet the national curriculum requirements.