Beyond 25m: rethinking school swimming and water safety for every child
Trigger Warning: This blog contains some content that may be triggering around the important subject and statistics around drowning, please read on with care. Why…
PE Insights Episode 55 – Mo Jafar: Blacks Can’t Swim, challenging stereotypes and driving change
Introduction and Background In this episode of the PE Insights podcast, host Nathan Walker welcomes academic and educator Mo Jafar to discuss physical education with…
PE Insights Episode 42 Sam Horton – PE, Swimming and Leadership
Introduction In this episode, Nathan Walker is in conversation with Sam Horton, PE and swimming lead at a primary school in England. Sam champions PE…
Rebecca Adlington: Determined to Succeed
With the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games being postponed to 2021, we thought we could talk about some previous Olympians and how they embody certain Olympic…
Drowning Prevention Week aims to prevent more tragedies
With drowning prevention week coming to a close (14-24 June) how can we decrease the cases of drowning in the UK? The number of people…
Primary Schools Must Offer More Swimming
Schools told to offer more swimming, as report finds that nearly half of primary age children lack sufficient skills to swim one length unaided.
Primary Schools Failing to Provide National Curriculum Swimming Obligations
A third of children in England cannot swim by the time they leave primary school, according to research from the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA). The…
Synchronised Swimming Skills and Sculling
This video resource demonstrates a range of synchronised swimming skills and sculling techniques.
The Backstroke Tumble Turn
This is a video resource that visually breaks down the back stroke tumble turn.