Swimming is an important life skill for everyone and school swimming is a wonderful opportunity for students with special educational needs to develop their swimming skills, water confidence and safety.
Northamptonshire for the second year running is part of an exciting YST Innovation project – helping to increase School Swimming opportunities across the county for SEND children.
The initiative allows us to work across the county with mainstream, or special schools, with teachers and individual SEND children to identify and overcome issues and barriers to school swimming lessons. Discussing and working directly with teachers and students to develop an action plan, ideas, ways in which we can work together to get the child back to swimming lessons alongside their peers. One to one, swimming pool support offered too, to enable teacher and pupil confidence to continue.
Please contact me if you have any questions, need support or help with any SEND students accessing school swimming. michelle.reeves@northamptonshire.org
CPD course for supporting SEND swimming (PDF, 1.1 Mb)CPD courses for supporting SEND Swimming
Inclusion2020Swimming Sept2020 (PDF, 559 Kb)Case study on Inclusion 2020 swimming programme
Building a diverse network for sustainable SEND swimming (PDF, 1.1 Mb)Document shows how to build a workforce to support swimming for SEND students
Using SwimPix to support SEND pupils (PDF, 1.1 Mb)Resource on how to use Swim PIX to support SEND pupils
One to one in water support for SEND pupils in mainstream school swimming (PDF, 1.1 Mb)Resource for supporting children in the water on a 1 2 1 basis
