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Programme
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Summer Term—53 classes. Approximately 1,590 children per week.
*Autumn Term—19 classes. Approximately 570 children per week.
*Winter Term— 4 classes. Approximately 120 children per week.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
*Summer Term—37 classes. Approximately 1,110 children per week.
*Autumn Term— 2 classes. Approximately 60 children per week.
* Arrangements for these terms are limited by the financial
provisions approved.
Achievement Tests
The following achievement tests have been gained by the
schools during the past year, and 513 children have been taught to
swim for the first time.
Distances—
20 yards — 338 pupils.
50 yards — 222 pupils.
100 yards — 73 pupils.
200 yards — 61 pupils.
440 yards — 156 pupils.
E.S.S.A. Efficiency Test — 14 pupils.
Once older pupils have become confident and competent
swimmers, it is now thought that, whenever possible, they should
be instructed in the elements of Life Saving and Diving in preference
to further stroke efficiency, thus making them more valuable members
of the community.
Competitive Swimming
Competitive swimming has its place in the swimming programme,
and this is chiefly catered for by :—
(a) Inter-house competitions.
(b) Inter-school competitions.
(c) County Galas.
(d) The English Schools Swimming Association Gala.
These are mostly organised and conducted by teachers'
associations outside school hours, and as an outcome of these
activities two Boys' Schools gained very creditable results.
Older pupils seem to need an incentive to further effort, and
competitive swimming appears to meet this demand. In addition
it provides a great stimulus and is a means of assessing the relative
efforts of individual schools of equal standing and opportunity.