Swimming for MCS students

Year 2 Learn to Swim

All Year 2 students have now received Learn to Swim notes. This year is different to previous years when Learn to Swim has been offered to higher grades. If your child is in Years 3-6 and is not a confident swimmer, can I please encourage you to contact the local Swimming Pool to enquire about Learn To Swim opportunities for your child. We will evaluate the Learn to Swim Program after its completion this year. 

Swimming for Sport

Department of Education Policy stipulates that schools must adhere to a 1:15 teacher/student ratio for water based activities. Based on this, we need 9 teachers to run swimming for the 5 Primary classes. Usually towards the end of the year we take Year 3-6 students to the pool for swimming for sport. As we only have 5 teachers available, we can not offer swimming at this point in time.