Swim England Honours Challenge Certificate

Congratulations! Your swimmer has achieved their Swim England Honours Challenge Certificate badge!

If we have emailed you to ask you to buy a Swim England Honours Challenge Certificate badge and certificate, please add this product to your cart and checkout. We will bring your badge and certificate to the next lesson for you to present to your child. Please ensure you have added your child’s name in full as you would like it to appear on the certificate when prompted to do so at checkout.

The Swim England Learn to Swim scheme is an inclusive syllabus for delivering structured and progressive swimming lessons for all ages. To achieve their badge they have to demonstrate the following:

1. 1. 1. 1. Make a straddle entry into water of at least full reach depth*, swim 5 metres into a piked surface dive to retrieve an object weighing approximately 2kg from water of full reach depth*; carry the object using a backstroke or sidestroke for a distance of 20 metres, to place it on the poolside.
         2. Scull 10 metres head first on the back; complete a back somersault finishing in a back layout position; perform a roll to take up a front layout position; carry out a front somersault finishing in a front layout position; tuck and rotate backwards into a back layout position and continue to scull feet first for 15 metres. Throughout all sculling and layout positions, the hands must remain close to the hips and the feet must be kept together on or near the surface of the water.

         Complete the following in a total time of 20 minutes without a pause:

         1. Swim 200 metres front crawl, 200 metres backstroke and either 100 metres breaststroke or 50 metres butterfly. A change of stroke may only occur every 100 metres (except for butterfly).
         2. Swim 500 metres freestyle during which surface dive twice head first and twice feet first; on each surface dive, swim through two hoops 4 metres apart without surfacing. The tops of the hoops are to be at least 1 metre below the surface of the water.