Years 1 - 4 Water Safety/Water Confidence Programmes held at Northern Arena:

Northern Arena hold a pivotal role of ensuring the safety and providing key life skills to children in the community. Northern Arena’s award winning learn to swim school focuses on changing and saving lives in and around water with learn to swim and water safety programmes.

The programme that your child will be able to participate in at Northern Arena will be held in this term. Below is an outline of what will be provided:

The Schools Learn to Swim program teaches children from years 1-9 to be more comfortable and safer in the water.

The program:

• Provides individual student assessments at the beginning and end of the programme with feedback to each student.
• Caters swimming lessons for all levels and abilities.
• Teaches students to swim and survive by learning correct stroke technique and swim fitness.

Alongside the schools learn to swim program is an extremely important and comprehensive, practical boat and water safety module. The Northern Arena School Water Safety and Boat Safety Programme enhances confidence in the water and teaches students key boat and water safety skills with all equipment provided. Key survival skills include:

• Floating
• Treading Water (in calm and moving water)
• Swimming to safety
• Submersion and searching
• Unaided entry and exits
• Life jacket education, skills and practices including ‘HELP’ (Heat Escape Lessening Posture)
• Boat education, skills and practices
• Boat practices in life jackets