Swimming for Beginners - Water Confidence

SWIMMING FOR BEGINNERS - WATER CONFIDENCE Entry Requirements
None

PLEASE NOTE. All students attending courses involving physical exercise are required to complete a brief questionnaire prior to commencing the class. The purpose of this is to ensure that the student is not suffering from any illness or condition which might prevent them from participating safely in such activity. If you have such a condition, you are advised to consult your GP before enrolling
Description
This course is designed to enable you to move across the pool on the front or back, with feet off the pool bottom unaided.

After completing this course you should be able to:
To demonstrate safe entry and exits into shallow water.
Course Content
· Introduction to the topic for the lesson.
· Warm up.
· Main theme of topic.
· Contrasting activity to develop additional water confidence skills.
· Warm down period.
Where a course is aimed towards an assessment/examination, it is expected that all students will enter for the qualification.
Method of Assessment
· Records of achievement performance criteria sheet.
· Skills monitoring chart.
· Questions and answers.
· Observations and feedback.
Progression
You may wish to progress to a more advanced swimming class. Ask your tutor for information.
Materials
Swimwear to be purchased by students.
Float, dive sticks, hoops to be provided by college.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING: COURSE VENUE: not all courses are run at BCOT, please see top of page for venue of this course. REFRESHMENTS: you should be aware that all centres have limited or no facilities for refreshments. Therefore you should bring your own refreshments.