If you have stopped lessons with your children – or if you never started – it is not too late to go to the pool. Research comparing children between the ages of three and eight indicates the optimum ...

A primary school's swimming pool is facing closure due to running costs. St Martin and St Mary Primary School in Windermere, Cumbria, currently helps around seven other schools to meet their ...

Scarr said the most alarming finding was that the children who left primary school without adequate swimming and water safety skills were not improving in high school. That’s when risk of ...

The state soon boasted it had taught 10,000 school-age children to swim, University of Sydney sports historian Dr Steve Georgakis said. By the end of 2024, 106,500 public primary school students ...

That’s what they’ve done at Royles Brook Primary School in Thornton - and it’s had a profound effect on water confidence and swimming ability in just a few weeks. The school hired the ...

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Haywards Heath came out on top last Wednesday 12th March in Horsham Pavilions, where they won double golds in the Qualifying Round for SE Primary Schools Division ...

A TEACHER at Lothersdale Primary School has tackled her first outdoor swim in a wetsuit as she prepares to take part in the Great North Swim. Natalie Knight is in training to take part in the UK's ...

Primary-aged students struggle to meet benchmarks and swimming abilities were not improving by much in high school, according to a survey of more than 300 education staff. Sign up to The Nightly's ...