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RLSS Water Smart

The RLSS UK’s Water Smart Award sets out a national standard for water safety. It is the essential skill-based programme to ensure safety and competence around water. It is a standalone award and provides a gateway for participants to go on to complete further awards to develop skills and knowledge to keep themselves and others safe whilst enjoying the water.

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Water Smart Award

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As the UK’s leading provider of water safety and drowning prevention education, RLSS UK has produced an award that sets out a national standard for water safety. Everyone should have fun and be able to enjoy the water – take the opportunity to learn some essential water safety skills for life to help keep yourself and others safe.

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About the Water Smart Award

RLSS UK created the Water Smart Award to establish an essential skill based programme, that as experts we consider everyone in the UK & Ireland should achieve to ensure safety and competence around water, which ultimately supports our ambition to prevent drownings.

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It has been designed as a standalone award from our other water safety programmes and provides a gateway for participants go on to complete further awards to develop skills and knowledge to keep themselves and others safe whilst enjoying the water.

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The award’s focus is on five main areas, these include:

 

  1. Water Safety Awareness

  2. Getting In and Out of the Water Safely

  3. Safely Staying Afloat

  4. Safely Moving in the Water

  5. Performing Rescues Safely (Optional)

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School Swimming Curriculum

The Water Smart Award has been developed in line with the Curriculum Swimming outcomes and supports the development of these skills in the UK and Ireland.

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Please get in contact with us if you would like us to deliver this course to your school.

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