A School in Shrewsbury Introduces a Pop Up Swimming Pool

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00:00Hi, I'm Caroline Gardner, I'm Headteacher at St Giles Primary School in the middle of Shrewsbury.

00:04We're working with Embrace Sports and they've taken out a franchise for the swimming pool,

00:09so we've got three weeks of swimming lessons.

00:12Normally we would take our Year 5 and 6 children off to one of the pools in town,

00:17which would lose a whole morning every week going off in a coach and the cost of the coach is.

00:22This way all of our children, Years 3, 4, 5 and 6, get lessons for three weeks in a solid block.

00:30The pool is heated, it arrived last week, we did a put-up of it last week

00:34and then we've been in and out over the weekend checking.

00:37So it's fully heated, the children can stand up all the way across,

00:41so for the children, especially the younger children who are a bit nervous, it's perfect for them.

00:46They can have a short lesson and then off to the gazebos to get changed

00:51and then after school we're doing private lessons for Key Stage 1 children,

00:55for parents who want to pay for private lessons too.

00:57It means that they're a lot more confident because they're in their own environment,

01:01they know where they are, they know where they're going,

01:03they're not nervous about travelling on a coach to and from.

01:06What we noticed following Covid was lots of children didn't get swimming lessons,

01:11so we have more children who are non-swimmers and are a bit nervous in the water.

01:16This means every day they can come in for a short 20-minute lesson for a three-week block,

01:21ready for the summer holidays and hopefully they'll get back into bigger pools

01:24and be able to use what they've learned.