Today marks the start of the Toca a Nadar 2024/2025 program, through which 2,400 elementary school pupils will have access to swimming lessons, with the aim of learning and practicing sports that will initiate or improve their relationship with the most diverse aquatic activities.
This program aims to make students aware of the risks of drowning, alerting them to the various forms of danger and teaching them how to deal with them. However, the objectives extend to a practice that allows the municipality's children a range of experiences and activities in the aquatic environment, fostering health habits through regular sports practice.
The mobility of the students has not been overlooked either, as students from a wide range of elementary school classes will be transported from their schools to the Santarém Aquatic Complex or the Sacapeito Municipal Swimming Pools by bus. The students will be accompanied by their class teacher and an educational assistant.
This program is aimed at all elementary school students in the municipality of Santarém, from 1st grade to 4th grade. A total of 33 schools are involved, spread across the municipality's 18 parishes.
All the classes/schools will have five 45-minute Aquatic Activities classes, mostly every 15 days, with different objectives and contents. The aquatic activities practiced will be AMA (Adaptation to the Aquatic Environment), Artistic Swimming, Water Polo, Recreational Games and Aquatic Safety.