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School swimming in Dilbeek has been organized in a separate way. Thanks to the positive cooperation with the Dilbeek schools and the support of the municipality, the Dilbeek children receive swimming lessons as it (almost) does not exist anywhere else.                                          

The swimming system is unique in Flanders. Thanks to the targeted approach, the children quickly learn to move safely in the water and learn the 3 swimming strokes.

The swimming and lifeguard system:

The kindergartners and the students of the first grade are taught with their class. There are 2 teachers per class who further divide the children according to their swimming level.

From the second year, the children no longer receive lessons per class, but different classes are combined and divided into level groups. For example, every child, regardless of age, receives swimming lessons at their own level, this is called 'cross-class level swimming'.    

Each student is taught by a qualified and specialized swimming teacher who is also a lifeguard.

Learning to swim safely: water is a source of pleasure and pleasure, but it can also be extremely dangerous. Unexpectedly dangerous situations can arise both when practicing water sports and during a day's holiday at the sea. In school swimming, every child gradually learns everything necessary to get out of difficult situations:

Remain in place to swim/float

Swim/float with clothes on 

To overcome a certain distance by swimming

Jumping into the water from a height

Swimming  underwater

Learning to swim technically correct: learning to swim requires a special technique and coordination of arms, legs and breathing. The better your technique, the 'easier' it becomes.

In school swimming, each child gradually learns the different swimming techniques: breaststroke, crawl and back crawl.

Also a simple start dive and a turn point are part of the package.

1. School swimming structure

School swimming is built around 11 level groups. Each group is characterized by specific objectives. Only when these have been achieved can a student move on to the next group. Each level is indicated by a certain color swimming cap. As indicated in the image below, the colors are pink, white, white fish, green*, green**, bronze, silver, gold, light blue, royal blue and dark blue.

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Rose and white (fish) usually swim in the small pool. The best students from the latter group can already go to the large swimming pool to practice for their test to go to green*. 

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All other groups swim in the main pool. Silver swims at lane 1, gold at lane 2. The three blue groups have an extra wide lane in the middle of the sports pool and swim together there. The playground is located between lanes 4 and 5. This is a rope course (called a playground) with planks and a house attached to it through which the students swim as a warm-up. 

This mainly applies to the green* and green** groups, but rose and white (fish) can also try this after a few lessons. It helps these children to bridge the transition from a small bath to a large bath. The bronze bathing caps can also complete the course, but not at the start of the lesson.

 This to avoid traffic jams. The playground also separates the swimming area of ​​the bronze caps from the area of ​​the green caps.

2 Distribution of students and bathing caps

Most students have already been grouped according to their level, as they usually participated in the system the year before. However, the students who are new will receive a pink swimming cap as standard. Subsequently, their competences are tested by a teacher. It also determines which group the child may join.

Each swimmer gets a cap with his name on it. If the student loses or breaks that hat, he must hand over €1 at the start of the next lesson in order to buy a new one. Someone who does not have his cap with him and cannot buy a new one is swimming with a black cap. 

After three times, he/she will receive a note home urging the parents to buy a new bathing cap. If the cap is missing during a play lesson, the student in question must wait five minutes before playing.

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3 Semestrial swimming

Since the 2017-2018 school year, the different grades come to swim every semester. This means that every student can participate in swimming lessons every week. An overview: