To ask if your child’s secondary school has a pool?

[Mickmick123]

My local private school has an indoor swimming pool. Other than that no local secondaries do. One nearby used to but it was shut down due to heating being unaffordable. Recently, I was visiting my sister who lives miles away and her DS15 is currently doing a swimming unit in PE as his (state) school has a pool. I would assume most primary’s would be too small to have one. Aibu to ask if 1) your child’s school has a pool and 2) do you think your dc benefit from their school having one

Yes all of the local secondary schools have pools (Scotland). They're rented out in the evenings either for lessons or open for public swimming.

In Norfolk and my sons high school has a modern indoor pool

Two local secondaries have indoor pools and one primary has an unheated outdoor pool that really doesn’t appeal!

I think the private schools near us have pools

Can think of two state schools locally with a pool

Way back in the 1960s, my junior school fundraised to get a swimming pool - one of those ones that stands above the ground, outdoors, barely heated, 10x15m and we all loved it!!!

I've just had a look on Maps to see if it's still there - and there's a building where it used to be, so perhaps it is no more (or it's had a very swanky upgrade)

Only the special needs schools and private schools have pools here.

Primary school has a pool - it's the only one locally that does. Of the 4 local secondaries, 2 have pools. All state.

Yes ours does and so did the first school. Unusual these days.

The local grammar school has a pool as does the special school but none of the mainstream schools do.
I know at least two high schools in the neighbouring borough that do. One is run by the school (a massive school that runs from nursery to sixth form) and the other (secondary school) is run by a private company outside school hours and they run a swim school during the week and it's also open to the public at the weekend.

My children's junior school had one but neither of their secondary schools did. They all had lessons out of school anyway because my own experience of school swimming lessons was bad (still can't swim).

State primary school has an outdoor pool which is open for the second half of the summer term and the first two weeks of the summer holiday.

Academy secondary school has an indoor pool open all year round.

Older dds school was built as part of a leisure centre, so I suppose yes but other than 30 mins swim one year there was no real benefit.

My primary school had one. It was within 15 min wal of the local, excellent pool.

I have had two kids at different state secondary schools, both have pools but one has just announced they're mothballing theirs due to the costs.

I don't see a swimming pool on site as particularly important - and ime not relevant in the slightest to how good the school is.

I went to an awful Secondary. Absolutely rough as arseholes, in the bottom 10% of the Country. We had a pool on site. We used it for PE, for the one term a year you were scheduled.

My dc go to the best Secondary school in the County, it's amazing. Same County as mine! No pool. They travel to a local leisure centre for swimming instead.

DS's co-ed state secondary, SE England, outskirts of London had an indoor pool. The school used it all day during term times, including before school and lunchtime swimming/water sports clubs.

The school had an impressive set of sports facilities, cricket pitch & pavilion, hockey pitch, tennis courts, two all-weather multi-sport pitches etc. The lettings side was a massive source of income for the school and meant the facilities were very well maintained.

They also had a theatre/arts studio (also available for lettings) for the non-sporty!

Not sure if it's still the same, he left in 2017.

Where I live, the state seniors have pools. The private schools don't. In fact the private schools have very little in terms of facilities.

My DC luckily do, Primary they use it a fair bit, but it is small so just standard swimming. Great size for Infants, as they progress through Juniors it’s ok and Yr5-6 they are starting to need a larger pool.
Older DC (also state school), have a pool, each class use it for around 4 weeks a year as of the rota, so it’s not used as much as it could and the changing rooms are stressful (too small and communal) and kids often hate swimming there because of this. They’re told throughout Primary about privacy etc, then secondary shoved into a small room to get undressed with sometimes unkind kids around. So personally I’d rather takem them swimming myself at this age.

overall pros and cons.

I was always jealous of Grange Hill because they had a swimming pool. None of the schools round here do.

I went to a state school that had a pool. Because the numbers of students, I got exactness half term of swimming in the entire time I was there.

Yes, but my children go to a private school. It's loaned out (for free) to the local primary schools as part of their charitable outreach work. To my knowledge they don't loan it out to local secondary schools - presume that's because swimming is on the curriculum of Primaries and not Secondaries? None of the state Primaries or Secondaries have their own pools. The Primaries use either the swimming pools of the two private schools or the local leisure centre for their swimming lessons.

Ds' small independent has a 25m outdoor pool. Used extensively, all children swim every week between June 1 and Sept 30.

The pool is used to run intensive swimming courses during the summer holidays, the life guards are trained 6th formers. They open for family season ticket weekends.

Two local state primaries also use it for year 5 swimming lessons.

It's going to have a pool house built around it next year.

4 high schools in our town and 2 incl the one in our catchment have a pool which is also used for various clubs outwith school hours.

Yes, both my kids schools have pools (different state secondary schools).
Mine did when I was at school. Kids primary also had an outdoor pool but sadly they had to close it as it was too expensive to maintain.

Most state secondary schools near me have a pool (and none of the private schools). These are council owned, and open for public swimming - so not really for the benefit of the school, but combining the upkeep of a school and leisure centre into a single building.

The school I went to 25 years ago had a pool, and pretty sure we only used it for two 6-week blocks, my entire time at school..