What We Do in the Shallows
CPD 1
Activities and games to support the teaching, assessing and improvement of the following Pupil Outcomes for ‘Newbies’ and Non Swimmers:
- Building and developing water confidence, exploring and discovering how to enjoy being in the water and moving freely around in it.
- Feeling relaxed and safe they learn that we can all manage to float with both feet off the bottom – with and without support from eg noodles or buoyancy vests etc.
- Feeling relaxed and safe with water on the head and face and with the face and head in the water.
- Submerging with confidence
- Practicing aquatic breathing
- Developing flotation and rotation skills without any support on front and back.
- Using legs and arms for balance and more control.
- Starting to roll from front to back and back to front.
What We Do in the Shallows and Deeper Water
CPD 2
Activities and games to support the teaching, assessing and improvement of the following Pupil Outcomes for Beginners.
- Learning how to streamline their body and log roll or rotate or roll forwards, backwards from front to back and from back to front.
- Using arms and legs purposefully on their front and on their back in rudimentary ways linked to the development of strokes that work well for all swimmers.
- They are able to change direction and demonstrate other aquatic skills such as surface dives, treading water, and essential self-rescue in deep water.
- From streamlined push and glides children add leg kicks and develop emerging stroke skills; arm actions for front crawl and backstroke while travelling 10 -20 metres; develop and improve rotation, ’sweeps’ and ‘sculls’.
- Swim 25 metres steadily and continuously using a rudimentary backstroke.
What We Do in the Shallows – and Deeper Water
CPD 3
Pupil Outcomes for Improvers: activities and games to support the teaching and assessment of stroke improvement skills.
- Preparing for whole stroke swimming over increasing distance. They swim lengths with confidence and without undue stress.
- Children practice and improve rotation and balance on front and back, developing leg kicks and powerful purposeful underwater arm actions for front crawl and backstroke.
- They explore and try other strokes such as breaststroke and butterfly.
- They are introduced to sets of swim ‘drills’ and other part practices.
What We Do in the Shallows – and Deeper Water
CPD 4
Stroke Improvement for the most able swimmers.
Children develop and improve performance, efficiency, and competence on:
Front Crawl ⃣ Backstroke ⃣ Breaststroke ⃣ Butterfly ⃣
- Fitness, stamina, and endurance improves.
Front Crawl practices:
- Kick and scull
- Push glide kick and ‘Switch’ after 3 or 5 strokes or set number of leg kicks
- ‘Single arm’ including combinations e.g. 3L+ 3 R + 3 whole stroke.
- ‘Catch-ups’
- ‘Finger trails’
- Head up ‘front paddle’ to whole stroke
- Stroke counting
- Whole stroke
Breaststroke Practices:
- Kick- back and front/ with/without buoyancy aids
- Kick on front with forward sculls
- Kick front with hands reaching behind
- Pull (P) and kick (K) combinations e.g.1P+3K
- ‘Seahorses’
- Whole stroke
Backstroke Practices:
- Kick – arms at sides and arms extended beside head.
- Push glide kick and ‘Switch’ after 3 or 5 strokes or set number of leg kicks
- Double arm
- Single arm + combinations
- Whole stroke
Butterfly Practices:
- ‘Dolphin’ kick: front/back/ sides/ rotations; arms extended /at sides
- Kick on front with sculls
- Single arm + combinations
- ‘Biondi’ ‘lite’ / full biondi
- Whole stroke
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