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Book your place on Swim England's Learn to Swim Tour
28 November 2024Swim England’s world leading Learn to Swim Framework will be the focus of a nationwide tour which gets underway in February – with tickets selling fast.
The tour, which will take in six destinations nationwide, is aimed at all Learn to Swim providers, from operators, swim schools and teachers who deliver the country’s most popular swim syllabus.
Swim England’s Learn to Swim programme is used in 80 per cent of all swimming lessons in England and reaches a staggering 1.4million children each week.
Industry experts will be on hand at each of the tour dates with skill enhancing tips and advice, whilst also offering support to enable attendees to take their swimming lesson delivery style to new levels.
The tour gets underway in Plymouth on Thursday, February 6 before visiting Nottingham (February 13), Sandwell (March 11), London (March 13), Spennymoor (March 25) and Warrington (April 3).
An opportunity to connect with the aquatics community
Alex Barrett, Swim England’s senior technical aquatics manager, said: “Our Learn to Swim Framework is widely acknowledged as giving teachers the best possible grounding for a successful career in aquatics.
“As a national governing body, we are passionate about great experiences for everyone in the water and especially in swimming lessons, and fundamental to that is ongoing training and growth of the teacher and managers which we are aiming to strengthen through this opportunity
“This is already the case with lots of training, but we have decided to reach out to the aquatics community and offer an opportunity to connect, provide new literature, training and ongoing support to enable them to enhance the skills, knowledge and experience they already have.
“The session has been created by the sector for the sector via Swim England volunteers tutor group, representing a unique experience for learning in the sector.”
Swim England’s Learn to Swim Framework provides swim teachers with the expertise to teach all the core aquatic skills, including diving and the four swimming strokes to 25 metres and beyond.
It also covers all outcomes of swimming and water safety within the national curriculum and trainee swim teachers are given more than 50 hours of guided learning delivered by licensed educators.
Barrett added: “We are proud of the Learn to Swim Programme and its incredible reach and popularity. We are constantly striving to make improvements to it, and we hope the people who come along to the tour will find the sessions really beneficial.”
To find out more about the tour or to book a place before the tickets sell out please click here.
Workshops included on each session:
Teaching strokes across the Learn to Swim Framework
This workshop will showcase the culmination of 18-months of work with the Swim England Tutor workforce, focusing on how to empower Swim Teachers to select practices which are appropriate to the participant’s individual needs that are relevant to the expected standards, suitable, safe, fun, progressive, inclusive and engaging to create an effective lesson.
In partnership with Swim England – are you making the most of the support and resources available to you?
An introduction from the Business Engagement team on support and resources that Swim England offers including business solution products and services, workforce solutions and the free resources and support available to help retain and grow your Learn to Swim Programmes.
Learn to Swim emphasis points
This workshop will introduce key messages and emphasis points for an effective, fun and engaging swimming lesson. Emphasis points will include, active learning, corrective vs progressive, core aquatics skills and fun approach.
Applied Skills in the pool
Throughout this workshop participants will explore current and new practices to deliver best practice swimming teaching and apply the teachings from the day. Attendees can observe from the side or take part within the water!