• Year 0-2: Basic awareness of potential water-related hazards and how to minimize risks in different water situations.
   

• Year 3-4: Understand rules, hazards, and risks associated with various water environments, including closed water areas and open water locations.
   

• Year 5-6: Be aware of the rules, hazards, and risks associated with various water environments, including closed water areas and open water locations.

  • Well-rounded knowledge of water safety, be capable of making informed decisions in real-life situations

  • Students should be able to recognise an emergency situation in and around water.

• Year 7-8: Grasp the rules, dangers, and risks in moving water, waves and currents

  • Ability to make safe decisions when engaging in water activities

  • Building their knowledge about hypothermia and its risks to understand how to protect themselves in different weather conditions.

In this competency, students will learn how to safely enter the water, test for depth, and other entry and exit methods such as slide entry, stride entry, and compact jump. The key learning outcome for students is the ability to select the correct entry method for the activity they are performing and understand the best ways to get themselves out of the water safely.

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• Year 0-2

  • Step in entry

  • Ladder entry

  • Wade entry

  • Slide entry

  • Ladder exit
     

• Year 3-4

  • Slide Entry and accidental fall -in

  • Perform getting in/out sequence in deep water
     

• Year 5-8

  • Accidental fall-in

  • Compact Jump entry

  • Stride entry

  • Climbing onto a boat

  • Climb up a bank/onto a bank

In this competency, students will learn how to submerge to different depths, open their eyes under the water and move through it while submerged. The key learning outcome for students is to become comfortable being under the water, control their breathing and perform simple tasks such as picking up an object from the pool floor. Learning how to control their breathing and stay calm while submerged will help students enjoy the water for the rest of their lives.

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• Year 0-8

  • Get under water and pick up an object

• Year 0-8

  • Move underwater to the count to five

Students are given key learning messaging such as do not go swimming alone and swim between the flags to more complex knowledge such as recognising and responding to an emergency and making safe decisions for different situations. The key learning outcome for students is to have knowledge of the risks and how to minimise them so they can enjoy the water safely in the future.

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• Year 0-2

  • Float and regain feet

  • Float on back at least 1 minute
     

• Year 3-4

  • Scull at least 3 minutes

  • Tread water at least 3 minutes
     

• Year 5-6

  • Scull at least 3 minutes while moving through simulated currents and waves

  • Perform personal buoyancy sequence - Signal for help
     

• Year 7-8 

  • Scull while clothed for 5 minutes while moving through simulated currents and waves

  • Tread water while clothed for 5 minutes

In this competency, students will learn how their body composition floats and how they can move their bodies to float in different positions and move from one orientation to another. By doing so, students will be able to rotate from one floating position to another without assistance and be able to roll from their front to their back in shallow and deep water. 

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• Year 0-2

  • Horizontal rotation

• Year 3-4

  • Horizontal to vertical rotation

  • Vertical Rotation

Students will learn how to signal for help, perform reach and throw rescues while considering their safety and understand how to help someone in trouble in the water. The key learning outcome is that the students can recognise an emergency and react appropriately to the situation they are faced with but must put their safety first.

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• Year 3-4

  • Perform safety of self and others sequence in deep water

  • Float and signal for help for at least 2 minutes
     

• Year 5-6

  • Reach/throw rescue
     

• Year 7-8

  • Float and signal for help while clothed for at least 3 minutes

  • Perform a reach/throw rescue while clothed in simulated currents and waves

  •  Demonstrate use of multiple skills to respond to two different scenarios

In this competency, students will learn how to move through the water, from basic kicking techniques to more advanced survival and non-survival strokes. Moving through the water allows the students to move effectively and efficiently whilst extending the students to further distances, enabling stamina and water endurance growth. 

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• Year 3-4

  • Use any form of propulsion to move 15m non-stop

• Year 5-6

  • Move 15m non-stop, using any form of propulsion through simulated currents and waves

  • Move 50m and/or 3 minutes non-stop confidently and competently through simulated currents and waves