Skill Drill Swimming Activities for Year 9

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

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

Practicing reaching rescue techniques with clear communication and instruction giving to casualties

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

Developing surface diving technique through systematic object recovery from pool bottom

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