Swimming
•Year 7
•10 Lessons
This unit transforms students from supervised swimmers into independent athletes who understand training principles, water safety, and leadership responsibilities. By blending fitness training with life-saving skills and peer coaching, students develop both technical competence across all four strokes and the confidence to plan, lead and evaluate their own training sessions. The extended 10-lesson format allows for genuine depth in both physical development and personal responsibility.
10 lessons in this unit
Lesson 1
Big Question:
How can I use swimming to improve my fitness and train like an athlete?
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Lesson 2
Big Question:
How can varying strokes and pacing strategies improve our swimming fitness and technique?
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Lesson 3
Big Question:
How can you maintain excellent technique whilst swimming all four strokes in sequence?
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Lesson 4
Big Question:
How can you swim further for longer without running out of energy?
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Lesson 5
Big Question:
How can we use technology and training principles to become more independent swimmers?
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Lesson 6
Big Question:
How can you design a training programme that challenges you whilst helping others improve?
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Lesson 7
Big Question:
How can we become effective coaches and evaluators of our own training?
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Lesson 8
Big Question:
How do you measure and celebrate your own swimming journey?
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Lesson 9
Big Question:
How can we swim further and faster using only our legs?
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Lesson 10
Big Question:
How would you survive if you fell into water fully clothed?
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