As part of the Year 5 PE curriculum, your child will get the chance to have swimming lessons at a local pool. 

They learn to swim 25 metres and keep swimming and use 3 different strokes, for example front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke. Their learning includes controlling their breathing and how to swim confidently and fluently on the surface and under the water. In addition, they will learn to recognise how swimming affects their bodies and pace their efforts to meet different challenges and perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations 
 

Your child will require a black or blue swimming costume or swim shorts and a towel in a bag. They will travel to the site by coach and will have specialist teachers to coach them.