Sports Funding & Swimming at St John's

Please click on the documents below for our most recent Sports Funding Reports. 

Swimming - Statutory Reports 

• Swimming at St John's 2019-2020 - Year 5 children

The national curriculum requirement is for children to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres, using a range of strokes effectively and perform safe self-rescue in different water based situations.

• Following swimming lessons during the Spring term 2019:

21/53 (40%) could confidently swim at least 25m (more than one pool length in one go)

29/53 (55%) children could swim 10 meters with floats (one pool width)

32/53 (60%) children could not swim more than 5 meters.

This year 16/53 (30%) successfully passed their assessment on safe self-rescue techniques.

The teaching focused on both the front and back crawl, with the stronger group working on all four swimming strokes.