CPDs for supporting swimmers with additional needs

Making Your Lessons Engaging for Autistic Children

Equips you with the basic knowledge required to effectively engage, interact with, and teach autistic children within a swimming lesson.

Supporting Pupils with SEND in School Swimming

This course will provide you with the adaptations and tools needed to improve the overall experience for pupils with SEND who attend school swimming lessons.

Integrating Swimmers with a Physical and/or Sensory Impairment into Mainstream Swimming Lessons

This workshop is designed to give Level 1 and Level 2 teachers an understanding of integrating disabled swimmers into mainstream swimming lessons.

Teaching Aquatics to Children with Learning Difficulties

Explores strategies and adaptions to teaching practices that will support participants.

Introduction to Deaf Awareness and using British Sign Language in Aquatics

This online webinar will give you an introduction to working with and supporting deaf and hard of hearing swimmers in the aquatic environment.

Deaf and Visually Impaired Friendly Swimming

This eLearning covers two modules: Deaf Friendly Swimming and Visually Impaired Friendly Swimming. It will help ensure that deaf, hard of hearing and visually impaired young people are fully supported in accessing swimming lessons and training.

Introduction to Disability Swimming

This free online resource will give you an introduction to disability swimming. It covers best practice and how to support the inclusion of disabled people in swimming lessons and clubs. Completion is a requirement for clubs to achieve SwimMark.

Foundations of Inclusivity

This eLearning will give you an introduction to equality, diversity and inclusion, covering the approach to inclusion, use of appropriate language and the importance of adaption.

Introduction to Para-Swimming

This free online resource will give you an introduction to para-swimming. Ideal for coaches working with para-swimmers this e-learning resource will increase your awareness of para-swimming and how you can support it as a coach.

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Eurovision inspired games to bring the party atmosphere to your swimming lessons

Eurovision madness is coming to the UK so it's time to bring out your dance routines and make your swimming lessons sing. Musical Floats If you can have music on the poolside then you can do this swimming version of musical statues. If not you can still play by calling out 'dance' and 'float'. You can have swimmers perform a star or mushroom float. The last swimmer to float is out. Swimming Duet Divide the swimmers into pairs and have them

Prestigious Swim England Senior Swimming Coach Programme launches for 2023

The prestigious Swim England Senior Swimming Coach Programme has launched for 2023! Swim England has announced that applications for the prestigious Senior Swimming Coach programme are now open for the 2023 intake. This fantastic one-year programme is designed to equip experienced Swim England Swimming Coaches with the skills and knowledge to create and deliver individualised development programmes for aspiring athletes. The programme

Teaching swimming as a teenager has allowed Kelly to build a career in the leisure sector

Kelly, 30, from Derby, won the Institute of Swimming’s #whyiteachcompetition last year and made the most of her years' worth of free training. Here she shares her swimming teacher journey, and how she maximised her learning. Kelly says: “Swimming has always been my happy place, and I believe that swimming is in my blood. My daughter, who is just four, is exactly the same as me and is such a water baby. She’s already a confident swimmer

Ensure your swimming lessons reign supreme for The Coronation!

We've created some swimming lesson games for you to make a royal splash with leading up to The King's Coronation. Tea Party Set up everything the swimmers need for a tea party on the edge of the pool. Each swimmer gets a tray (float) to set for the tea party. They need to collect a teacup and saucer, a sandwich, and a scone (depending on what toys you have to mimic them) from the side of the pool and travel with it balancing on their

Abu Bakr is a lifeguard turned swimming assistant, who has found teaching to be an incredibly fun job

Abu Bakr is a lifeguard turned swimming assistant, who has found teaching swimming to be an incredibly fun job. Here he talks with us about his journey from being a lifeguard, how swimming teaching fits with his studies, and the importance of representation. The change came at the perfect time as Abu Bakr started to focus on his studies. He says, "I started as a lifeguard, and I was watching the swimming lessons. I always thought that was

New Safeguarding refresher eLearning launched in partnership with Swim England

A new safeguarding refresher eLearning has been launched by the Institute of Swimming and will enable swimming teachers and coaches to update their knowledge. The Swim England Safeguarding Refresher with Mental Health and Self-harm module is open to anyone who has completed the Swim England Child Safeguarding CPD within the last 3 years. Allowing certificate holder to keep their training and knowledge up-to-date. It gives an overview of