Skill Drill Swimming Activities for Year 7

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

Teaching students the essential rules and protocols for safe and efficient lane swimming in shared pool spaces

Focused practice of different stroke-specific kicking techniques (flutter kick, breaststroke kick) with immediate teacher feedback and self-assessment opportunities.

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

Students practice adapting swimming stroke technique to cope with increased resistance, learning to modify stroke length, breathing patterns, and rhythm

Focused practice of smooth transitions between different swimming strokes at the wall

Rotating stations where students explore different swimming training equipment to understand their purposes and benefits

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

Structured activity teaching students to give and receive constructive feedback using What Went Well (WWW) and Even Better If (EBI) framework