Would you let your child go swimming with school?

[Jj2431]

As the title says really..I don't feel comfortable with it but prepared to be told I'm being over the top. They reckon they are cleaning water before the kids get there and that changing rooms will be clean. They also can't share books etc at school but can share water that their body's and spit etc has probably been in..

We’ve been pretty careful but I think I’d be ok with them in bleachy water. Up to you though. I’ve been saying no to some things that other people are happy doing.

Im unsure tbh.
Your child is at school touching everything others have, all day.
Our local leisure centre has 1.1 lessons only at moment and adult only swim lessons..., no one is allowed to use the changing room At all, you arrive in swim wear under clothing and leave pool immediatly in swim wear with clothing over!

My DH is a pool plant technician (means he is registered and certified to take care of swimming pools).
If you are worried about covid in the water absolutely nothing to worry about the water is safe.
Personally I haven't been in a swimming pool since he told me about TDS (total dissolved solids) I'll leave it to your imagination what that is.
But the water is definitely Covid safe

My DCs don't swim with school, but DD1 swims twice a week and DD2 swims once a week (and have since the pools reopened). I have no problems with it as the pool water is chlorinated and the centre has good procedures in place for distancing when not in the pool.
I imagine school DCs only swim with those in their bubble and changing rooms will be cleaned between groups, so I would have no problem with this either.

I wouldn’t, especially now when the cases are rising and track and trace doesn’t work properly but I feel pretty serious about Covid. I don’t like being ill.
Is it primary or secondary? I wonder what additional measures the school should implements for this, could you check it in government guidance? My concerns will be about changing rooms, swimming aids and more intensive contact with other people e.g if your child needs help with changing/ swimming.

DDs are back at swimming lessons.
I would prefer them to swim with school- not mixing with children from other schools.

Yes, my DD is back having her (after school) lessons, has been since August, and it's all been fine so far. I'd certainly allow her to go with school if her year were doing swimming lessons.

Is it a coach there and back?
I wouldnt as school have them back and then hair wet to open window classrooms etc.
Also as airborne more worried about how many other people have been in the leisure centre.
But obviously if the other kids go anyway yours may just catch it from them (also see my annoyance re soft play etc)

Yep, sure.

A chlorinated pool is one of the safest places you can be from a Covid perspective. DC are both back training with their swim squads, DD's lessons have restarted both in school and at the local leisure centre, we've been swimming as a family numerous times.

Chlorine kills coronavirus

No, I wouldn't. I'd feel like it's double standards, to be honest - we all know that despite the chlorine, germs pass around at swimming. I swam nearly every day as a child (with a club/competitions) and we were always picking up tummy bugs, verrucas, colds. I would have thought there was no way to make swimming actually 'safe' from Covid-19 (as it isn't with much else). Swimming is important, but our test & trace is rubbish and not coping as it is. On a personal level, my son has a health condition, so I'm less confident than others that if he gets Covid, he'll be absolutely fine.

I would for under 12s. Not so keen for teens

@MagpieSong

You cannot catch coronavirus in a swimming pool- it simply cannot survive the chlorine.

The changing rooms are different but still safe with appropriate precautions.

For me it would depend on the age and the changing facilities. The swimming I would have no problem with.

I've been going swimming for the last six weeks. I think it's pretty safe. Studies are now showing you can't really get covid by touching things, and the water has chlorine in. So the risk is breathing it in, but if your child is anything like me, they will swallow half the pool while swimming, so swallowing a lot of chlorinated water, which will presumably kill any nasty covid germs it hits on the way down. So the only risk is in the few minutes before they leave the pool which must be minimal.

Pools have all sorts of nasties in them, you can't think about it too much. To my knowledge, I've never picked anything up at a swimming pool except for a verruca.

And it is not airborne in the sense of floating around the atmosphere waiting to get you. You just want to avoid being breathed/coughed/sneezed on.

Yes definitely. Unfortunately its not running this term at my DC school.
As PP says swimming is about the safest thing you can do.

Knowing what classrooms are like anyway, yes.

Yes. I am. It's one of many things DS missed out on last year and thankfully his school are running it this year. I'd have rather he went in May or June than November but I think they probably just took whatever dates they could get.

Ask the school for a copy of their risk assessment. Swim England guidelines are very, very clear and specific and I’m sure they will be followed to a T.

@Lollypop4 do they have to travel home in wet swimwear?

my pool they catch their death of cold being chucked outside without being allowed to change out of wet cozzies.

Yes because my DC have returned to swimming lessons so I don't think this is any different

Dd's been back training 4x a week since July. Covid doesn't survive in chlorinated water. Working in a school the kids are all over each other regardless of what staff say. The more physical activity the better.