PRIMARY schoolchildren will take part in a national water safety campaign at Bedale swimming pool.
Get Safe 4 Summer will press home the importance of learning to swim and raise awareness of the dangers of swimming in open water.
Hambleton District Council is joining Risedale and Thirsk Sports Partnerships and the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) for the initiative at Bedale Leisure Centre on June 27.
Organised annually by the ASA nationwide, about 100 children aged ten and 11 will learn how to be safe around water whether in lakes, rivers, canals, the sea or a swimming pool.
Bedale centre manager Fiona Hughes said: "A good understanding of water safety is just as important as learning to swim.
"This campaign is all about raising awareness that swimming in open water is very different from swimming in a pool."
The campaign will promote the importance of learning to swim, water confidence, increase water safety skills, raise awareness of the fun of water activities, introduce skills such as snorkelling and promote swimming as healthy activity.
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