Issued the first safe swimming teaching program approved by the Ministry of Education and Training

This is the first official program approved and issued by the Ministry to implement Decision No. 1717/QD-TTg dated December 31, 2024 of the Prime Minister on "Enhancing education on knowledge and skills to prevent drowning for students in the period 2025-2035".

Equipping students with basic knowledge about drowning prevention

Currently, swimming instruction in schools is not uniform in terms of curriculum and content. Schools are using programs and documents from many different sources to organize swimming lessons for students, mainly teaching simple swimming techniques; not focusing on equipping knowledge and skills to prevent drowning, safety skills in the water environment, and safe drowning rescue skills.

Issue a program and instruction materials on safe swimming teaching to unify the content, help localities and educational institutions organize synchronous implementation, fully equip with knowledge and skills on safety and drowning prevention, and help students proactively protect their health and lives.

This program and document set specific goals for students at each level of education. Accordingly, in primary school, students are equipped with basic knowledge of drowning prevention and control, indirect drowning rescue; forming basic skills in safe swimming, safety skills in water environment; educating to raise awareness of self-training in qualities and capacity to prevent drowning.

In secondary school, students are equipped with basic knowledge of drowning prevention, indirect drowning rescue, basic swimming skills, and physical improvement; equipped with self-protection skills and coping with underwater situations; know, understand, and apply safe indirect rescue steps when seeing someone drowning; and form students' sense of responsibility to the community in drowning prevention.

In high school, students are equipped with basic knowledge of drowning prevention, improving swimming skills, safety skills in water environment; knowing, understanding and applying self-rescue when encountering incidents in water environment. They also practice, apply knowledge, indirect drowning rescue skills, safe rescue and know how to perform the initial first aid procedures for drowning people; raising students' sense of responsibility to the community in drowning prevention.

Specific regulations on lesson duration and conditions to ensure

The program content and instruction materials for teaching safe swimming to students include 16 lessons; including 15 lessons and 1 test and assessment. Each lesson is organized from 60 to 90 minutes. Based on specific conditions (weather, learning ability, physical condition, health of students), teachers flexibly apply teaching methods, allocate appropriate time for each student.

The program and guidance documents also specify the conditions for ensuring implementation in terms of facilities, human resources, documents and funding.

Regarding facilities, a fixed or assembled (mobile) swimming pool must ensure a clean water source, suitable water depth, flat walls and surface to ensure safety for students and teachers when organizing swimming lessons. The area around the swimming pool must be clean, airy, with enough space to warm up before going into the water to learn to swim. There must be minimum rescue equipment according to regulations, toilets, showers, separate changing areas for male and female students, and swimming pool rules.

Regarding human resources, swimming teachers must be trained and certified in teaching safe swimming and drowning prevention by competent authorities; have lifeguards and medical staff on duty as prescribed; have staff to clean the swimming pool area and auxiliary works.

Educational institutions are responsible for developing plans and reporting to competent authorities for approval to implement safe swimming instruction for students according to the program; and issuing safe swimming certificates to students who meet the requirements according to the content tested at the end of the course.

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