00:00Cecil Primary School is different. It's the only one in Gravesend to have a swimming pool made to teach pupils the important life lessons needed to stay safe in the water. However, the pool needs repairs to stay afloat.
00:20Cecil Primary School is the only one in Gravesend to have a full swimming pool. But because of all the wear and tear over the years, repairing it is going to take some deep pockets.
00:35So the pool liner is estimated at just over £10,000 and then we have to do the rendering on the outside of the pool and a new pool liner will be needed as well. Obviously once we take the pool liner out, we don't know what's underneath it, it's very old, so there may be some more restoration work there needed as well. So we're estimating around the £20,000 mark.
00:57Statistics by Swim England also reveal that males aged between 10 to 19 were the highest group for accidental fatalities out of the 136 deaths that happened last year.
01:14I think it's very important for the kids to be able to swim, especially as we live very close to rivers and we are an island and there's opportunities to get in the water wherever you can, especially on hot days.
01:27But they really must need to have the knowledge of how to look after themselves in the swimming. It's very important.
01:34And who knows, they might end up going on cruises and the like and God forbid a Titanic happens, but if they need to learn to swim then that's all the grist of the mill.
01:44But the facility offers a place of fun for its pupils.
01:50I really like when we have to do the race and swim to the other side.
01:55What I love most about the pool is because the swimming lessons are very fun.
02:01I like because it's so warm and it just makes me happy.
02:12I like because it's good for you. Swimming is fun.
02:18The school have set up a GoFundMe page and is planning to host fundraising events in the future, proving that when there's a will, there's a way.
02:29Henry Luck for KMTV in Gravesend.
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