Approve the program and instruction materials for teaching safe swimming to students

The first official safe swimming program approved and issued by the Ministry of Education and Training aims to provide localities and educational institutions with systematic documents to equip students with knowledge and skills to prevent and combat drowning, safety skills in the water environment, and safe drowning rescue skills.

Teaching swimming to children in the Mekong Delta. (Illustration: LAN ANH)

The Ministry of Education and Training issued Decision No. 2993/QD-BGDDT dated October 29, 2025 approving the Program and Instructional Materials for teaching safe swimming to students.

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

Therefore, the issuance of the Program and Guidelines for teaching safe swimming aims to unify the content, help localities and educational institutions to organize synchronous implementation, fully equip students with knowledge and skills to prevent drowning so that they can be proactive in protecting their health and lives.

The Student Swimming Safety Curriculum and Materials set specific goals for students at each grade level.

At primary level, 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.

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

For high school level, 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; practicing, applying knowledge and skills of indirect drowning rescue, safe rescue and knowing how to perform the initial first aid procedures for drowning people; raising students' sense of responsibility to the community in drowning prevention.

The program content and Safe Swimming Teaching Guide for students includes 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 and allocate appropriate time for each student.

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