Awards
Focus on VALUES
With our own Achievement Awards based on our own FOCUS Values, children are recognised not only for skills learned but also behaviour and attitude to learning, building their confidence and keeping them engaged.
Focus on Confidence
The next stage of development through learning with swim focus is to concentrate on your child's development through the Swim England Duckling Awards These awards are designed to help with confidence and movement through the water.
Focus on Skills
Focus on ability
Focus on ability
The Learn to Swim Stage 1-7 Awards are divided into progressive stages. They make up the core, national syllabus of learning to swim for primary school aged children. Designed to reward your child for their development of the essential skills they need to be confident, competent and safe in the water. Each stage has a list of clear outcomes that need to be completed in order to gain each Award.
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Focus on ability
Focus on ability
Focus on ability
.The Swim England Rainbow Distance Awards are designed to complement the different stages of the Swim England Learn to Swim Programme. They are designed to keep your child motivated while working through the individual Learn to Swim stages. The Rainbow Distance Awards are aimed at swimmers of five years and older and are designed to demonstrate the pupils’ ability to swim from A to B without pause and without stress. They are a great way to give swimmers the incentive to develop their swimming abilities and stamina by gradually increasing the distance they can swim.
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Focus on SAFETY
There are three Water Safety Awards, teaching water danger awareness, self-rescue techniques and vital survival skills in clothes, without swimming goggles. Developed in partnership with Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and Royal Lifesaving Society UK (RLSS UK). They are a must for any parent to consider for their child. The Water Safety Awards are: Water Safety 1 Award During this Award your child will learn basic water safety awareness and survival techniques such as floating, treading water and submerging and resurfacing, without goggles. Water Safety 2 Award This Award introduces swimming in clothes, the key water safety messages from RNLI and RLSS, and essential personal survival techniques such as the Heat Escape Lessening Position (HELP). Water Safety 3 Award On completing this third and final Water Safety Award your child will fully understand how to perform safe self-rescue in different open and pool-based water situations, and what to do if they fall into water unexpectedly
Focus on CHALLENGE
Swim England Swimming Challenge Awards are for young people working towards the latter stages of Learn to Swim Stages 1-7 or Learn to Swim Stages 8-10 of the Aquatic Skills Framework, with Bronze, Silver, Gold and Honours Awards available. Your child will be challenged to develop a wide range of skills and stamina in order to achieve the Awards, with a focus on good stroke style.