Skill Drill Swimming Activities for KS2

Students practice three types of active rest techniques during swimming to maintain movement while recovering, learning to rest without stopping completely

5-minute practice swim where students test their sustainable pace and self-assess effort level on a 1-10 scale to develop pacing awareness

Progressive practice of streamline push-offs from the wall, focusing on body position, power generation, and glide distance maximization

Progressive practice of simultaneous two-handed wall touches for breaststroke and butterfly turns, starting from controlled approaches

Pairs use tablets to record each other performing a skill (3 attempts), then analyse the video together using specific criteria to provide constructive peer feedback and identify improvement areas