6 h. ago ‘You can’t remove swimming from water safety’: New PE material to be reviewed

Support material for NSW’s new PDHPE syllabus will be reviewed after concerns that it would encourage school swimming lessons to run in the dry of a classroom, teaching children to “gallop” but not swim.

Politics

41 h. ago ‘You can’t remove swimming from water safety’: New PE syllabus to be reviewed

NSW’s new PDHPE syllabus will be reviewed after concerns that it would encourage school swimming lessons to run in the dry of a classroom, teaching children to “gallop” but not swim.

Politics

2 w. ago Education needed to keep everyone safe at state’s swim spots

Royal Life Saving Australia continues to raise the alarm about the public’s water safety knowledge, particularly among people born overseas. 

Politics

2 w. ago The change to visa tests that could help lower Australia’s drowning toll

A trial has embedded water safety knowledge into English courses done by foreign students and other migrants applying for jobs, visas and university courses.

Politics

3 w. ago ‘Highest risk months’: Water safety warning for parents as summer begins

“Parents tell us that they only looked away for a moment and then tragedy has struck.”

Events

4 w. ago Parents of boy killed in jet ski incident say death was preventable

The parents of the 15-year-old boy killed in a jet ski incident in Sydney's south have broken their silence to call for a substantial change to the state's water safety laws.

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