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All Year 3 to 6 students at Stanmore Bay School have been offered a term’s swimming lessons, free of charge.
Water Skills for Life lessons (a Water Safety NZ designed programme) are taking place weekly at the Stanmore Bay Pool & Leisure Centre.
Last October the school applied to Aktive for funding for the lessons – it is currently the only school on the Coast that has obtained this.
Principal Matt Sides sayssince the closure of the school pool and post-covid, the school has worked to find sustainable ways of getting students back in the pool to learn water skills at no cost to parents.
He says the current programme is more specialised and intensive than previous offerings when it comes to learning water skills, and open to more students.
“In previous years, Harbour Sport and/or the school board funded swimming lessons, not parents, but it was only open for Year 5 and 6,” he says.
Aktive works with partners, including Auckland Council, Sport NZ, Foundation North, and The Lion Foundation, to fund and deliver community sport in Auckland.
It prioritises five to 18 year olds.
Info: https://aktive.org.nz/what-we-do/water-skills-for-life/
