Swim:ED

Empowering the next generation of swimmers

Swim:ED

Empowering the next generation of swimmers

What is Balance-Ability?

Balance-ability is the UK's first accredited 'learn to cycle' programme for children aged 2½ to 6 years old.

The programme is a structured course that combines unique ergonomic balance bikes with a schedule of fun activities that build confidence, spatial awareness and dynamic balance skills enabling young children to cycle without ever needing stabilisers.

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Making waves in primary education

Eliminate the stress and logistical nightmares of traditional primary school swimming with Swim:ED. Our innovative, on-site pop-up pool solution ensures safety and quality on your school playground, which preserves precious learning time, simplifies your staffing, and aligns with national curriculum requirements.

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Key Features

Here's why you should consider adopting our programme:

Enhanced Learning Time

Maximise your children's education by removing travel times and bringing swimming lessons to  your playground.

Reduced Logistical Hassles

Say farewell to the complications of off-site provision and transport organisation, paving the way for a hassle-free experience.

Data-driven Insights

Arm yourself with valuable, in-depth pupil progress data directly correlating to national curriculum requirements for swimming and safety.

Safety First

Rest easy with our rigorous safety protocols through our in-depth PSOP, which safeguards your pupils in a secure learning environment.

Quality and Inclusive Education

Ensure every child gains access to essential swimming and water safety skills regardless of their circumstances.

Cost-efficient

Leverage a turnkey solution that often proves more economically advantageous than conventional off-site swimming lessons.

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Key Features

Here's why you should consider adopting our programme:

Enhanced Learning Time

Maximise your children's education by removing travel times and bringing swimming lessons to  your playground.

Reduced Logistical Hassles

Say farewell to the complications of off-site provision and transport organisation, paving the way for a hassle-free experience.

Data-driven Insights

Arm yourself with valuable, in-depth pupil progress data directly correlating to national curriculum requirements for swimming and safety.

Safety First

Rest easy with our rigorous safety protocols through our in-depth PSOP, which safeguards your pupils in a secure learning environment.

Quality and Inclusive Education

Ensure every child gains access to essential swimming and water safety skills regardless of their circumstances.

Cost-efficient

Leverage a turnkey solution that often proves more economically advantageous than conventional off-site swimming lessons.

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Enhanced Learning Time

Maximise your children's education by removing travel times and bringing swimming lessons to  your playground.

Turnkey Solution

Everything you need for swimming education, is delivered on your playground - including a heated pop-up pool and qualified instructors.

Reduced Logistical Hassles

Say farewell to the complications of off-site provision and transport organisation, paving the way for a hassle-free experience.

Safety Ensured

We adhere to stringent health and safety protocols underpinned by vigilant supervision from our expert team, to  create a safe swimming environment.

Data-driven Insights

Arm yourself with valuable, in-depth pupil progress data directly correlating to national curriculum requirements for swimming and safety.

Secure Set-up

Our pop-up pool resides in a lockable, robust modular structure, affixed securely to your playground, ensuring safety and accessibility.

Safety First

Rest easy with our rigorous safety protocols through our in-depth PSOP, which safeguards your pupils in a secure learning environment.

Comprehensive Data at your Fingertips

Our unique platform tracks and reports pupil progress, demonstrating swimming and water safety outcomes and improvements.

Quality and Inclusive Education

Ensure every child gains access to essential swimming and water safety skills regardless of their circumstances.

Championing Inclusivity

We believe every child has a right to learn to swim, and our programme eradicates barriers, offering high-quality swimming education for all children.

Cost-efficient

Leverage a turnkey solution that often proves more economically advantageous than conventional off-site swimming lessons.

Quality Instruction

Swim:ED's qualified team deliver a curriculum that ensures your children grasp swimming and water safety efficiently and effectively.

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How does RB Gym and Sport’s address the DFE Standards?

Professional development should have a clear focus on improving and evaluating pupil outcomes

  • Differentiated activities and lessons to ensure all pupils are challenged and make swift progress.
  • Regular shared assessment to match needs, experience and knowledge to curriculum support activities and delivery.

Professional development should be underpinned by robust evidence and expertise​

  • Pre and post audit/evaluation.
  • Impact data reports.
  • Curriculum progress recording.
  • Quality assurance through regular observations and training.
  • Evidence reported on professional development forms.
  • Each member of staff has their own personal development folder to help develop, support, reflect and evidence progress​.

Professional development should include collaboration and expert challenge

  • Sport Educators provide ongoing support, modelling, and challenge.
  • Regular feedback to help create, achieve, and reflect on weekly goals.

Professional development should include collaboration and expert challenge

  • Delivered on site in your lesson with your pupils.
  • Mentoring relationship pre, during and post lesson delivery.
  • Ongoing support for all teachers taking part.
  • Sport Educator can help engage children in sustained physical activity opportunitiese.g. Extra-curricular clubs, playleader awards etc.

Why is Balance-Ability important for children?

Pedal independently

Nearly half of the UK’s kids are unable to ride a bike by the time they turn six due to the increased pressures of modern lifestyles. By the time children reach year 5, only 50% of pupils on average can ride a pedal bike independently. Through a fun and safe introduction to riding a bike, Balance-ability aims to 'embed in the psyche' of young children that cycling is a part of life.

Improve skills

By improving balance and sensory processing skills, children with healthy vestibular systems can excel and those with challenges or weaknesses (those with Dyslexia, Down Syndrome, ADD and ADHD) can improve dramatically.

Enjoy physical activity

Fundamental motor skills are the building blocks for engagement in physical activity and aid all aspects of the learning process. If these skills are underdeveloped in childhood, children's ability to participate in and enjoy physical activity can be greatly diminished. In practicing gross and fine motor skills, children not only gain intellectually, but also grow in strength, develop new skills, and enjoy increased confidence levels in the face of new challenges.

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Activities

Fast Track

Demonstrate height and control of the body whilst you combine a variety of gymnastics jumps together across a 10-metre-long trampoline

Trampoline

Feel what it’s like to fly as you explore a range of jump, turns and seat drops on the trampoline.

A-Bars

Circle forward on the bar, use your strength to hold shapes and swing forwards and backwards on the A-Symmetrical bars.

Beam

Walk tall on tip toes 4 foot off the floor, in a variety of directions, perform ½ and 1/1 turns and stay as still as a statue as we test your 1 footed balance’s.

Floor

Perfect your forward roll across the floor and perform it from a jump onto high equipment.

Vault

Unleash your power as you run, hurdle step and squat on to various vaulting equipment.

Sports for Road2Paris 2024:

Shooting

Boccia

Goal Ball

Boxing

Archery

Wheelchair Race

Upcoming Courses

15th & 16th October 2024

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Swimming education on your school playground

Swim:ED redefines primary school swimming and water safety, by bringing it directly to your school. Picture a heated pop-up pool securely enclosed within a temporary modular structure on your playground. With qualified instructors and lifeguards, we eliminate the need for off-site travel, preserving precious study time. It’s more than convenience; it’s a commitment to creating a safe, inclusive, and vibrant learning environment, where every child acquires vital swimming and water safety skills. Dive into Swim:ED and navigate towards a future, where every pupil is confident, competent and safe in  the water.

Boosting your school's swimming education

Choosing Swim:ED creates a streamlined, effective swimming programme in  your primary school. Ensuring many distinct advantages, such as:

Enhanced Learning Time

Maximise your children's education by removing travel times and bringing swimming lessons to  your playground.

Reduced Logistical Hassles

Say farewell to the complications of off-site provision and transport organisation, paving the way for a hassle-free experience.

Data-driven Insights

Arm yourself with valuable, in-depth pupil progress data directly correlating to national curriculum requirements for swimming and safety.

Safety First

Rest easy with our rigorous safety protocols through our in-depth PSOP, which safeguards your pupils in a secure learning environment.

Quality and Inclusive Education

Ensure every child gains access to essential swimming and water safety skills regardless of their circumstances.

Cost-efficient

Leverage a turnkey solution that often proves more economically advantageous than conventional off-site swimming lessons.

Enquire now

How your school can budget
for English on the Move

PE and Sport Premium

English on the Move addresses key indicators and raises the profile of physical activity across the whole school as a tool for whole-school improvement.

Pupil Premium

English on the Move raises the confidence and attainment of your pupils and ‘closes the gap’.

English Budget

English on the Move introduces innovative methods and helps your pupils achieve national standards in English.

Funding for Balance-Ability

Schools can utilize their Sport Premium Funding with Balance-Ability meeting the following targets:

  • Embedding physical activity into the school day through active travel to and from school, active break times and active lessons and teaching.

  • Develop or add to the PE, Physical Activity and Sport that your school provides.

  • Providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children.

Hassle free evidence and impact for teachers

RB Gym and Sport Educators ensure that Balance-ability is a progressive 'outcome based' learning programme where children are assessed at regular points throughout the course in order to monitor and measure progress. Schools will receive assessment data to help them account for physical literacy within children and a short impact report to help evidence the programme to Ofsted and use in your Sport Premium Evidence and Impact report.

All resources included

All Balance-ability sessions come with:

  • An accredited RB Gym and Sport Balance-ability Instructor

  • Balance-ability bikes and pedal bikes

  • Balance and co-ordination training aids

  • Road awareness signs and course cones

  • Visual activity cards

A vital life skill every child deserves

Swimming is an essential life skill. Alarmingly, 1 in  4 children in England leave primary school unable to swim 25 metres or perform crucial safe self-rescue—this could surge to 1 in 3 by 2025, if  no action is  taken. Swim:ED is here to stem the tide, ensuring every pupil is equipped with this life-saving skill.

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I would whole-heartedly recommend RB Gym and Sport for any school looking for high-quality professionals with a clear understanding of the Primary PE Curriculum.

Mrs Minihane, Headteacher

Case Study

School: St Mary’s Catholic Primary Academy, Wolverhampton

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Hockey

Football

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Basketball

Netball

Athletics

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Tennis

Tri-Golf

Volleyball

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Fencing

Archery

Frisbee

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Case Study

School: Glynne Primary School, Kingswinford.
Provision: 12 weeks of a Full Day Balance-Ability Programme

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The future of primary school swimming

Swim:ED is an innovative programme that makes swimming education accessible and inclusive for every primary school. Let's dive into its unique features:

Turnkey Solution

Everything you need for swimming education, is delivered on your playground - including a heated pop-up pool and qualified instructors.

Safety Ensured

We adhere to stringent health and safety protocols underpinned by vigilant supervision from our expert team, to  create a safe swimming environment.

Secure Set-up

Our pop-up pool resides in a lockable, robust modular structure, affixed securely to your playground, ensuring safety and accessibility.

Comprehensive Data at your Fingertips

Our unique platform tracks and reports pupil progress, demonstrating swimming and water safety outcomes and improvements.

Championing Inclusivity

We believe every child has a right to learn to swim, and our programme eradicates barriers, offering high-quality swimming education for all children.

Quality Instruction

Swim:ED's qualified team deliver a curriculum that ensures your children grasp swimming and water safety efficiently and effectively.

Enquire now

Swim:ED has revolutionised swimming lessons at Timberley Primary Academy, saving us logistical challenges and assisting Year 6 attendance. With improved swimming skills and heightened water safety awareness, the impact on our children is beyond measure.

Ian Griffiths, Deputy Head, Timberley Primary Academy

The progress made by the children and the confidence they had in the water was more than we could have hoped for. All of the children loved the sessions and the small group numbers meant that lessons were individualised. The sessions ran smoothly with no disruption to the rest of the school.

Chris Hattam Headteacher, Westbourne School

Swimming progress and attainment have improved at an incredible rate during the 6 weeks that the pop-up pool was on site. Our pupils have all developed their resilience and perseverance as well as   their swimming skills for life.

Bonar Caswell, PE Lead, Willows County Primary School

On-site swimming from £10,750

Every primary school is unique and when all costs are considered, Swim:ED is often more cost-effective than a traditional swimming programme. We offer delivery models over 5 to 7 weeks, accommodating up to 180 children in swimming and water safety lessons.

Easily navigate space challenges with our temporary changing rooms, starting at just £250, and enhance your Swim:ED journey by incorporating extra-curricular clubs into your programme, utilising Pupil Premium or PE and Sport Premium funding.

Why?

Physical Inactivity

Today’s children may be the first generation to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Currently, just 23% of boys and 20% of girls meet the recommended 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day. For many children in your school, the school day provides their only opportunity to be active.

Workforce

Ofsted’s new framework highlights health, well-being and behaviour as key priority areas. However, tight budgets have resulted in schools struggling to identify ways in which they can engage children in activity and boost health and well-being throughout the school day. As a result, non-teaching staff are often used to supervise children on the playground. Yet, most receive little or no training.

Engagement

In so many school’s children become bored on the playground and football dominates, mainly because there isn’t anything else to do. Our risk adverse culture and play equipment that usually includes balls, skipping ropes and a few hoops often means there is little to stimulate our pupil’s imagination.

Pupil Behaviour

These common problems lead to a high level of lunchtime incidents and accidents. Lunchtime supervisors are often left to try and resolve petty arguments that can end up carrying over into the classroom.

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Turnkey Solution

Everything you need for swimming education, is delivered on your playground - including a heated pop-up pool and qualified instructors.

Safety Ensured

We adhere to stringent health and safety protocols underpinned by vigilant supervision from our expert team, to  create a safe swimming environment.

Secure Set-up

Our pop-up pool resides in a lockable, robust modular structure, affixed securely to your playground, ensuring safety and accessibility.

Comprehensive Data at your Fingertips

Our unique platform tracks and reports pupil progress, demonstrating swimming and water safety outcomes and improvements.

Championing Inclusivity

We believe every child has a right to learn to swim, and our programme eradicates barriers, offering high-quality swimming education for all children.

Quality Instruction

Swim:ED's qualified team deliver a curriculum that ensures your children grasp swimming and water safety efficiently and effectively.

Click below to view a sample lesson plan and sample video resource.

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How does your school swimming measure up?

Where to start with improving your school's swimming provision? We've got just the tool for you. With the help of our friends at Swim England, we've developed the Primary School Swimming Review, designed to give you insights into your current swimming programme and help identify areas of improvement. You'll receive a FREE personalised report in four minutes or less showing how your school can improve swimming proficiency and water safety by answering a few simple questions.

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Get Started

There's no set schedule for implementing the programme. If you're interested in adopting the Primary Gymnastics Scheme of Work, simply fill in your details and subscribe.

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Unlock the Potential of Your Staff

Invest in the professional development of your staff and unlock the potential of your school's gymnastics program with our tailored Staff Training Workshops. Contact us today to discuss your requirements and book your workshop.

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Securing your pop-up pool

We work with experts in high-quality modular structures, ensuring your pupils enjoy safe, secure, and efficient swimming lessons with minimal disruption to your school. Our temporary modular systems are quick to install, secure, and adhere to the highest safety standards, while preserving the integrity of your playground.

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