CPDs for supporting swimmers with additional needs

Making Your Lessons Engaging for Autistic Children

Equips you with the basic knowledge required to effectively engage, interact with, and teach autistic children within a swimming lesson.

Supporting Pupils with SEND in School Swimming

This course will provide you with the adaptations and tools needed to improve the overall experience for pupils with SEND who attend school swimming lessons.

Teaching Swimming to Learners with Physical and Sensory Impairments

This workshop is designed to give Level 1 and Level 2 teachers an understanding of integrating swimmers with impairments into mainstream swimming lessons.

Teaching Swimming to Learners with Learning Difficulties

This CPD is designed to help non-specialist Swimming Teachers and Assistants with the knowledge of how they can support Neurodiverse learners within their swimming lessons.

Introduction to Deaf Awareness and using British Sign Language in Aquatics

This online webinar will give you an introduction to working with and supporting deaf and hard of hearing swimmers in the aquatic environment.

Deaf and Visually Impaired Friendly Swimming

This eLearning covers two modules: Deaf Friendly Swimming and Visually Impaired Friendly Swimming. It will help ensure that deaf, hard of hearing and visually impaired young people are fully supported in accessing swimming lessons and training.

Foundations of Inclusivity

This free eLearning will give you an introduction to equality, diversity and inclusion, covering the approach to inclusion, use of appropriate language and the importance of adaption.

Introduction to Para-Swimming

This free online resource will give you an introduction to para-swimming. Ideal for coaches working with para-swimmers this e-learning resource will increase your awareness of para-swimming and how you can support it as a coach.

Coaching Para Swimmers in a Mainstream Coaching Environment

Designed to give coaches an overview of the potential barriers to participation and integration.

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Volunteering to Vocation: Wendy's Inspirational Path to Becoming a Swimming Teacher after 50

At 51, Wendy discovered a passion for being a swimming teacher, despite never having lessons as a child. Wendy found that both learning to swim and pivoting her career in adulthood has brought her unexpected happiness and confidence. Wendy explains: “I never had swimming lessons as a child and wasn’t a good or confident swimmer. I could only manage a very basic breaststroke with my head above the water. “When I had

Olympic inspired swimming lesson game ideas

Ignite the Olympic spirit with our Paris Olympic-inspired swimming lesson games and activity ideas! Try out some of the following Paris-inspired swimming games in your swimming lessons for the 2024 Olympics: 1. Olympic-themed Rings The teacher sets up rings to act as goals, and the swimmers carry items or balls of varying sizes to the ring and score a goal. Allocate space for the rings (goals) using hoops or noodles, either at the edge

Teaching swimming part-time: A parent’s perspective on the perfect student job

Claire, from Sale in Greater Manchester, supported her 16-year-old daughter Imogen to train to become an Assistant Swimming Teacher. Here, Claire shares with us how this came about, and what it means to both to her and her daughter. Claire says: “Swimming has been part of our lives since Imogen was little. She enjoyed her swimming lessons as a child and progressed to swimming with the Trafford Metro Club, training with the club several times

From finance to the swimming pool: Andy's second career

Andy, 56, from Maldon in Essex, is training to become a swimming teacher, which he says is giving him focus and self-value in his next stage of life, following early retirement after a 37-year career in finance at Ford Motors Company. Andy explains: “Back in August 2023 I took voluntary early retirement from a career I loved. I worked in the finance department at Ford for most of my adult life, starting there as an apprentice aged 18. It

Newly Launched Registry Tracks Pool Chemical Incidents

Key industry bodies have launched a pool plant chemical incident register in a bid to help the sector improve standards of chemical handling and tackle the dramatic rise in accidents and incidents. Chemical incidents in the UK have risen dramatically over the last few years, particularly since covid, with the three year average between 2021-2023 up by 62%*. The surge has prompted the formation of the Pool Chemical Forum, hosted by

Saara plans to teach swimming to help her community whilst studying

Saara, 16, from Leicester, completed her SEQ Level 1 Swimming Assistant (Teaching) qualification earlier this year, following in the footsteps of her brother, Abu Bakr. Here, we’ll learn how she plans to benefit from working in aquatics, and what her mum, Sabreena, feels about her children becoming swimming teachers. Saara says: “I was inspired by Abu Bakr to undertake the training, as I have seen how much he has enjoyed being a