School Swimathon 2019

11/01/19

Would you like to help pupils in your local schools ‘Swim their Best’ in 2019?

School Swimathon is a swimming programme for primary school children, aimed at increasing swimming activity and supporting Swim England’s vision that every child should learn to swim before they leave primary school. Now in its seventh year, the programme is designed to sit alongside national curriculum swimming lessons and encourage children to swim their best.

Taking place throughout the 2019 Spring Term, pupils take on an initial challenge in January and then use their weekly national curriculum swim lessons to improve their swim distance. Pupils will then try to swim further than ever before, in a final challenge at the end of the Spring Term!

Here is how School Swimathon 2018 helped pupils to swim their best:

• 72% of children who took part improved their distance over the course of the spring term
• 75% of children (2,724) swam 25m or more in their final challenge session – a huge improvement from 51% of children who could swim further than 25m in the initial session

Registration and access to online resources is free, including certificates to download and present to your pupils. We have a small £20 delivery fee for optional School Swimathon materials, including wall charts, limited edition swim caps and embroidered achievement badges.

If you would like schools in your area to get involved then please pass on the registration link HERE.

For more information about the programme please visit schoolswimathon.org or contact the School Swimathon team by emailing info@swimathon.org or calling 0845 36 700 36.