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Burnopfield Primary School

Front Street, Burnopfield, NE16 6PT

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Sport

As a noted Healthy School, we promote and considered and active lifestyle both on an off our grounds. To find out about the events, clubs and other activities that help us to maintain this status, check out our Twitter page.

Swimming

At Burnopfield Primary we recognise that swimming is an important life skill. Our children start swimming lessons in year 3 where they attend lessons for a full term. This is followed by our year 4 children and year 5 children and then children in year 6 are given the opportunity to return if they are not yet meeting the required levels.

The programme of study for swimming and water safety states that:
All schools must provide swimming instruction either in key stage 1 or key stage 2.

In particular, pupils should be taught to:

  • Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
  • Use a range of strokes effectively [for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke]
  • Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations

Our year six cohort 2019-2020 results are as follows.

71% could swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres

58% could use a range of strokes effectively,

54% perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

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