The temporary pool at a Telford school aims to ensure all children get to be confident swimmers.
By Johnty O'Donnell and Maisie OlahA pop-up pool has been installed in a school playground to help more children learn to swim.
Sir Alexander Fleming Primary School in Sutton Hill, Telford, has installed the temporary pool to give more pupils access to swimming lessons. The school said it would give students better quality lessons as it takes 40 minutes to travel to a public pool which eats into class time.Ms Brown said many children had never been swimming before.
"If anything ever did happen, they have the skills to get themselves safe and out of any water if they needed to," she added.The pool provides 45-minute lessons for 10 children with one instructor and there are pods outside the marquee for them to get changed in. The school would have provided lessons for year five and six anyway, but with the pool in the playground it can now start teaching the children in the younger years, starting with year three."Sometimes the bus broke down to the leisure centre and we couldn't go swimming," he added.Year five student Raya was also happy about not having to travel on a coach.The school have hired the pool for five weeks and hope it becomes an annual scheme.
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