Swimming Program

Swim Right Swimming Program 2021

                                                     Depart School         Swimming Times

Years 3      (3C & 3S)             8.35am                         9:15am - 10:00am

Years 4      (4B & 4M)           9:40am                      10:00am - 10:45am

Years 5       (6B & 5G)        10.25am                       10:45am - 11:30am

Years 6       (6K & 5S)         11.10am                       11.30am - 12.15pm

Thank you for participating in the Swim and Survive Program organized and run by your

school. We look forward to delivering this program and wanted to take this opportunity to

emphasize a couple of important facts about our program, water safety and swimming in

general.

The Swim & Survive Program chosen by your school is an aquatic activity program designed

to emphasize a wide range of aquatic skills including water safety, survival techniques and

swimming skill development. It does strongly emphasize water safety in addition to swimming technique.

A wide range aquatic skills are taught in addition to swimming stroke development including

safe water entries and exits, body orientation in water, underwater skills, survival strokes,

rescue techniques (where age appropriate), survival skills and PDF (life jacket) based skills.

This program, developed and recently updated by the Royal Life Saving Society Australia,

recognizes the need to keep your family water safe and is directly aimed at equipping all

school aged children with a strong set of competencies that can be used in all water

locations. It could be yours or a friend’s back yard pool, an open water location such as a

beach, river or dam - all situations that present real and significant potential dangers for all

swimmers, weak and strong alike.

The Swim & Survive Program acknowledges and caters equally for swimmers of all abilities.

Swimmers with an advanced technique are not guaranteed against the dangers of any water

situation. Always remember that skills developed in a pool will be totally different when

swimming in different water courses. Often it means that stronger pool based swimmers can

be more inclined take more risks thinking their skills in a pool can be directly translated into

an open water situation such as swimming at a surf beach. 

Therefore, even if your child participates regularly in swimming, even at an advanced standard, it is equally important that they are reminded about the dangers of any aquatic activity and to regularly have their survival skills updated to call on should the need arise. Hopefully the level of awareness developed throughout this program will cause all children to think about the potential dangers before participating in any water based activity.

It is also important to note that the development of a reasonable competency in swimming

technique takes time to develop and should be undertaken through participation in a

specialized technique instruction program such as that run by Swim Right after school and on weekends. It is only through the regular participation in a program such as this, that your

child will become a competent and safe swimmer.

There are still significant numbers of people that drown every year despite the high level of

public awareness associated with the dangers of water activities. Together with your school,

we believe that this program provides a highly effective method of educating all students in

the importance of constantly learning and refreshing critical water safety and swimming skills.

The Swim Right Team