CPD for KS1 and KS2

OVERVIEW

National Curriculum CPDs

We offer training, resources and guidance to give you the confidence and understanding to plan and deliver Key Stage One and Two National Curriculum expectations for Swimming and Water Safety.

Apart from the 26 words of just 55 which set out the curriculum ‘expectations’  for Swimming and Water Safety, everything else you have seen, read or heard since reading them has been ‘guidance’ or ‘recommendations’, mostly from bodies within the Swimming Sector or ‘Industry’.

We offer an independent, innovative, informed and contemporary approach specifically designed for Primary Schools; to enable and support Teachers and Assistants to deliver high quality swimming and water safety lessons as part of the PE Curriculum.

We believe that this is best achieved by equipping schoolteachers and staff with improved levels of confidence, competence, knowledge and understanding of how they can best deliver the National Curriculum expectations for their pupils, safely and effectively.

This is  blended learning CPD comprising one full face to face day, following pre course reading and tasks

• To make a difference; and review how you might change your practice
• To review the impact on your school programme and the impact on outcomes for your pupils
• To answer the questions you want answered.

Key principles which underpin the training:

• Redefining how we can identify and meet the swimming and water safety needs of all pupils in an inclusive educational setting
• Teaching and learning how to swim is an exciting, liberating and shared journey of exploration, discovery, improvement, and success.

We think that schoolteachers and staff with training, working collaboratively, are easily the best professionals to lead swimming lessons and teach their classes how to swim and be safer in and around water.

• The need to review and if necessary, to challenge often historic approaches which do not deliver high quality teaching and  improved learning outcomes.
• Every programme of swimming should be closely aligned with the school’s vision, values and expectations for PE and sport.

Training Outcomes: To be able to…

• Understand current practices and what influences them.
• Develop a model for creating safe environments and the planning, preparing and delivery of swimming lessons which meet the expectations of the National Curriculum and the needs of all pupils.
• Identify key aspects of national requirements and recommendations for creating and organising a safe and effective ‘aquatic’ learning environment.
• Identify core or foundation aquatic and stroke skills relevant to curriculum expectations.
• Understand that these are the ‘pre-requisites’ for successful participation in a wide range of aquatic activities…and that there are no shortcuts. That future success is more likely when the ‘core’ or foundation skills are introduced progressively – when learners are ‘ready’.
• Understand how these are aligned with current statements on Physical Literacy.
• Understand the key underpinning skills and the essential components and practices for introducing, developing, and adapting swimming strokes.
• Plan, teach and evaluate appropriate and meaningful school swimming and water safety lessons at KS1 and 2.
• Understand how swimming can contribute to wider outcomes for National Curriculum PE and Whole School Policies.

Each learner receives a unique teaching resource; a set of 14 cards covering the foundation aquatic skills which enable children to swim and be safer in and around water. An assessment tool based on the cards is being developed.