Editing Swimming (section)

==Lessons==
[[Image:Girl with swimming board.jpg|thumb|A [[Styrofoam]] flotation aid being used]]

{{Main article|Swimming lessons}}

Traditionally, children were considered not able to swim independently until 4 years of age,<ref>{{cite journal
 |author      = Injury Prevention Committee
 |title       = Swimming lessons for infants and toddlers
 |journal     = Paediatrics & Child Health
 |year        = 2003
 |volume      = 8
 |issue       = 2
 |pages       = 113–114
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 |archive-date = 2006-07-12
|doi       = 10.1093/pch/8.2.113
 |pmid       = 20019931
 |pmc       = 2791436
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although now [[infant swimming]] lessons are recommended to prevent drowning.<ref>{{cite web|title=Drowning Happens Quickly– Learn How to Reduce Your Risk|url=https://www.cdc.gov/features/drowningprevention/index.html#two|website=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|access-date=18 August 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820011522/http://www.cdc.gov/features/drowningprevention/index.html#two|archive-date=20 August 2014}}</ref>

In Sweden, Denmark, Norway, [[Estonia]] and Finland, the [[curriculum]] for the fifth grade (fourth grade in Estonia) states that all children should learn to swim as well as how to handle emergencies near water. Most commonly, children are expected to be able to swim {{convert|200|m}}—of which at least {{convert|50|m}} on their back – after first falling into deep water and getting their head under water. Even though about 95 percent of Swedish school children know how to swim, drowning remains the third most common cause of death among children.{{cn|date=June 2017}}

In both the Netherlands and Belgium swimming lessons under school time (''schoolzwemmen'', school swimming) are supported by the government. Most schools provide swimming lessons. There is a long tradition of swimming lessons in the Netherlands and Belgium, the Dutch translation for the breaststroke swimming style is even ''schoolslag'' (schoolstroke). In France, swimming is a compulsory part of the curriculum for primary schools. Children usually spend one semester per year learning swimming during CP/CE1/CE2/CM1 (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade).

In many places, swimming lessons are provided by local swimming pools, both those run by the local authority and by private leisure companies. Many schools also include swimming lessons into their Physical Education [[curricula]], provided either in the schools' own pool or in the nearest public pool.

In the UK, the "Top-ups scheme" calls for school children who cannot swim by the age of 11 to receive intensive daily lessons. Children who have not reached Great Britain's National Curriculum standard of swimming 25 meters by the time they leave primary school receive a half-hour lesson every day for two weeks during term-time.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/14/nswim14.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/14/ixuknews.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011223735/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/14/nswim14.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/14/ixuknews.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-10-11 | title=Children unable to swim at 11 are given top-up lessons | work=The Daily Telegraph | date=2006-06-14 | access-date=2006-07-12 | location=London | first=Catriona | last=Davies}}</ref>

In Canada and Mexico there has been a call to include swimming in public school curriculum.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050718/swim_in_school_050718?s_name=&noUS95ads | title=Federal minister calls for school swim lessons | publisher=CTV | date=2005-07-18 | access-date=2006-06-28 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412080641/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050718/swim_in_school_050718?s_name= | archive-date=2009-04-12 }}</ref>

In the United States there is the Infant Swimming Resource (ISR)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infantswim.com/lessons/isr-lessons.html |title=Infant Swimming Resource site |publisher=Infantswim.com |access-date=2014-04-13}}</ref> initiative that provides lessons for infant children, to cope with an emergency where they have fallen into the water. They are taught how to roll-back-to-float (hold their breath underwater, to roll onto their back, to float unassisted, rest and breathe until help arrives), while clothed and unclothed. In ISR they teach the children how to roll with their clothes on, as a simulation, if they were to actually fall in walking or crawling by.

In Switzerland, swimming lessons for babies are popular, to help them getting used to be in another element. At the competition level, unlike in other countries - such as the Commonwealth countries, swimming teams are not related to educational institutions (high-schools and universities), but rather to cities or regions.