Year 4 – Swimming

4RM have been working extremely hard in their weekly swimming lessons at Rothwell pool. The class go every Thursday morning 9.30-10am. They are split into 3 groups- 2 who work with Rothwell’s swimming instructors and one group who work with Mrs Clark. Through showing grit and spark every week, the children have made incredible progress. The children in the smaller pool have increased their confidence levels massively and one group is beginning to move into the bigger pool. Mrs Clark’s group are working their way through the Leeds Schools Swim Awards. They have developed their pushing & gliding skills, floating skills and their strokes. They are know learning specific strokes and looking at performing these in deeper areas of the pool, building up their distance endurance each session!

The class also accessed a water safety week. Within this week, they were taught approaches that they could use if they ever found themselves or others in danger in water. The children worked brilliantly in this session and showed great levels of respect for the importance of this. They also got to experience what the water temperature may feel like in a river or lake at this time of year!

Fabulous progress so far and we still have 2 terms of swimming to go! Well done 4RM!