Belmount Grosvenor School
Information
Address:
Swarcliffe Hall, Birstwith, Harrogate, HG3 2JG
Facilities:
Pool: 17m x 8m
Depth: 1.1m - 1.8m
Temp: 30 degrees
Location:
Sited in Birstwith, a village on the North side of Harrogate, the pool provides excellent links to the Yorkshire Dales rural community and northern Harrogate (please see map below)
Directions to the Pool:
When you
enter the village of Birstwith, go past the post
office (located near the village school) on
Wreaks Road and up Lackon Bank (the hill past St
James’s Birstwith church). Belmont Grosvenor
School is on the right. If
you are at all unsure of how to get there,
please go onto the Belmont Grosvenor website
www.belmontgrosvenor.co.uk,
where you can click on a location map by
accessing “The School” tab and then the “How to
Find Us” button.
As you
enter through the main gates of the school,
please park in the car park directly on your
left. Cars are not
allowed to drive through the school grounds.
The swimming pool is a short walk through
the school grounds and is sign posted.
Entrance to the building:
Enter through the main doors into the foyer and the girls changing rooms are to the right and the boys to the left. Pool access is through the changing rooms for both swimmers and spectators
Viewing Point:
There is
minimum seating on the poolside.
Please wear
the overshoes provided.
Please do
not eat and drink on poolside.
No
pushchairs are allowed on poolside.
Changing Facilities:
Separate
Boys and Girls communal changing rooms.
If your
child is 8 years and over, under child
protection laws, they must go into their
appropriate gender changing rooms, (i.e. boys 8
and over must use the boys changing rooms, and
girls 8 and over must use the girls changing
rooms).
For
children under 8 years old, they must change
with their parent in the appropriate changing
rooms (i.e. Female parents must not enter the
boys changing rooms and Male parents must not
enter the girls changing rooms).
As you can see by the photo of the pool, the Belmont Grosvenor School pool provides a 17 metre length by 8 metre width pool space. This allows the younger and/or weaker swimmers to work through the widths and yet also provides the more advanced swimmer with a length distance of 17m, to build up stamina and distance through to pre-competition.
The pool also provides a 1.1 metre shallow end, suitable for the very young or very weak swimmer and a 1.8 metre deep end that allows the full range of Amateur Swimming Association (A.S.A.) awards, for the high ability swimmer, to be challenged, in addition to diving.
So often
now we are seeing pools that are of one depth of
perhaps 1.2m throughout and this does not
provide the correct teaching environment for
children to learn the range of skills required
for them to become confident, safe and efficient
swimmers, for them to become safe and
comfortable with varying depths of water and for
them to learn jumps safely.
Location Map