What Hilton Brown SWIMMING can offer your School!
- Qualified and experienced Swimming teachers
- Heated indoor pool
- Transport organised from your school to our City location
- Certificates and progress reports upon completion of our programme
- Discounted swimming lessons
- Water safety programme which includes the use of life jackets
Our Schools Aquatic and Water safety programme is designed to give as many pupils as possible the confidence and skills needed to survive in and around water. We incorporate the key swim and survival skills as outlined by Water Safety New Zealand and Swimming New Zealand.
What Hilton Brown SWIMMING can offer your School!
Hilton Brown SWIMMING has been successfully teaching and coaching swimming for over 35 years. We currently already have schools participating in our programme, either at our City facility or at their own school pool.
- Learn to swim programme
- Water safety programme
- EOTC and LEOTC requirements
At Hilton Brown SWIMMING we want to work with you to tailor a programme to suit your needs and requirements. It could be one or a combination of all the programmes listed above.
If your school already has a pool let us bring our coaches, equipment and expertise to you. With six locations nationwide, Newmarket, Onehunga, Albany, City, Havelock North and Hamilton we are the leaders in Aquatic education.
RECOMMENDATION FROM: SHERYL FLETCHER PRINCIPAL OF BAYFIELD SCHOOL
Bayfield School has had a very successful arrangement with Hilton Brown Swimming at Youthtown for a number of years.
Each February all our students attend swimming lessons during the school day at Youthtown under the direction of Hilton Brown swimming tutors. This is fully funded by our parents who are satisfied with the cost and programme.
Year one students have one lesson a week for five weeks and year two-six students have two lessons a week for five weeks. The students are transported to Youthtown via their dedicated bus which runs a continuous bus shuttle to and from the school and the pool, throughout the day.
At the pool the children are taught swimming by expert tutors. Their swimming ability is assessed and the children are grouped accordingly so that they are instructed at an appropriate level and progress through groups as necessary.
The quality of the swimming lessons provided we believe is far superior to those we could provide ourselves at school even if we had suitable facilities.
Please do not hesitate in contacting me should you require further information.
Sheryl Fletcher
Principal
Bayfield School
Herne Bay
Auckland 1011
Phone: 3765703
Email:
International Authorities State Learning to Swim Fundamental to Drowning Prevention
Recently released policy statements from two internationally recognized authorities, the International Life Saving Federation and the American Academy of Pediatrics, assert the need for all children to learn to swim. Drowning is recognized as a leading cause of injury related death in children both in New Zealand and globally.
Matt Claridge, General Manager, Water Safety New Zealand (WSNZ) views the statements as high level international endorsement for his organisations focus on children learning to swim and survive. The provision of quality opportunities is vital to addressing our nation’s high annual drowning toll now and in the future.
“It must be a priority for all New Zealand children to have the opportunity to learn to swim and survive. Without the ability to swim and survive, our New Zealand children are lacking in the basic skills and knowledge that will enable them to use and enjoy the water safely.”
“That these two highly respected international bodies have expressly communicated this message is encouraging Their position supports WSNZ’s stance that learning to swim and survive is the most effective and important strategy we can pursue in our attempts to keep our people safe in and around the water.”
Disturbingly research commissioned by WSNZ indicates a reduction in opportunities to learn as well as a decline in skill ability.
Claridge continues “the catalyst for WSNZ’s Swim For Life initiative was poor skill ability. Through Swim For Life awareness has been raised of the importance of swim and survive as a core life skill. We are now witnessing the development of proactive and innovative initiatives by community leaders that recognise the relevance of the issue to their communities and who are working in partnerships to effect change. The Northland and Otago regions are excellent examples of what can be achieved by a focused and coordinated approach to swim and survive delivery. They are the regional models that WSNZ believe should be replicated nationwide and working towards”.
WSNZ’s position is that quality swim and survive provision should be an essential component within the New Zealand Education Curriculum. This will require government support and resourcing. Claridge acknowledges this is an issue that will continue to escalate in the short term and have major long term repercussions.
“WSNZ will continue to advocate for Central Government involvement in this issue, but we can’t afford to wait and hope. We will continue with our efforts at regional and community level and work towards a situation where all primary school aged children are provided with the necessary opportunities to learn to swim and survive.”