Fitness & Water Safety Leadership
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.
Lessons in This Unit
10 lessons in this unit
Lesson 1
Big Question:
How can I use swimming to improve my fitness and train like an athlete?
Key Objectives:
- • Understand how to structure effective swimming training sessions using sets and repetitions
- • Demonstrate proper lane etiquette and safe pool behaviour
Lesson 2
Big Question:
How can varying strokes and pacing strategies improve our swimming fitness and technique?
Key Objectives:
- • To vary training sessions with different stroke combinations
- • To use sets and repetitions with multiple strokes effectively
Lesson 3
Big Question:
How can you maintain excellent technique whilst swimming all four strokes in sequence?
Key Objectives:
- • To swim individual medley sequences using all four competitive strokes
- • To execute smooth transitions between different swimming strokes
Lesson 4
Big Question:
How can you swim further for longer without running out of energy?
Key Objectives:
- • To develop pacing strategies for extended swimming periods
- • To select appropriate strokes for distance swimming based on personal efficiency
Lesson 5
Big Question:
How can we use technology and training principles to become more independent swimmers?
Key Objectives:
- • To access and use online swimming training resources effectively
- • To complete a timed swimming assessment and understand personal performance data
Lesson 6
Big Question:
How can you design a training programme that challenges you whilst helping others improve?
Key Objectives:
- • To deliver and lead effective warm-up sessions for peers
- • To complete pyramid training workouts with appropriate intensity
Lesson 7
Big Question:
How can we become effective coaches and evaluators of our own training?
Key Objectives:
- • To deliver and evaluate their own main training sessions with confidence
- • To give and receive constructive feedback on workouts using structured frameworks
Lesson 8
Big Question:
How do you measure and celebrate your own swimming journey?
Key Objectives:
- • To measure and track personal improvement over time using timed assessments
- • To evaluate the effectiveness of personal training programmes
Lesson 9
Big Question:
How can we swim further and faster using only our legs?
Key Objectives:
- • To challenge themselves with kicking-focused training over extended periods
- • To pace themselves effectively during distance kicking sets
Lesson 10
Big Question:
How would you survive if you fell into water fully clothed?
Key Objectives:
- • To swim effectively whilst wearing additional clothing
- • To adapt swimming technique for challenging conditions with increased resistance