Results of the 2026 KSSA Primary School Champs are now available on the Results page ! The relay team qualifiers for the divisional round on 25th April are also there - well done to these schools who have secured a place!
Please check your entries below. Any other errors or omissions to john.king@kentswimming.org ASAP. Any withdrawals or change of swimmers to the same address or to the results desk before the warm up ( 9.00am) please. Volunteers to meet the referees at 8.45am (we need more! ) in the room at the far end of the cafe. See you there! This event is on Sunday 22nd March at Hartsdown Pool , Margate WU 9.00 Start 9.30am. Girls WU 9.00am, Boys WU at 9.15am.
The 2026 Kent Primary Schools swimming championships are being held on 22nd March at Hartsdown Leisure Centre, Margate WU 9am , start 9.30am. Finish about 12pm noon. The wonderful Thanet Swim Club are kindly hosting once again!!
We are open for entries now. Please fill in the entry form downloadable from the second black button above and return to johngking119@live.com by 17th March 2026.
Click on the black button immediately below for the conditions relating to the relays only, which differ from normal Swim England rules. There's a brief summary of these rules for the relays at the bottom of this page. The 50m individual races are swum under the same rules as the standard Swim England rules.
The Kent Primary Schools Championships 2026 will be on Sunday 22nd March at Hartsdown Pool, Margate, kindly hosted by Thanet SC. It will be in the morning, timings 9am WU, 9.30am Start. Relays first 4x25m, individual 50m races afterwards in freestyle, fly, back and breaststroke. End at about 12pm noon. The entry form is downloadable from the second black button at the top of this page. Please kindly fill it in and return to johngking119@live.com by 17th March.
There are strict rules for the relays because there is a chance of progressing from county champs to divisional champs to National Finals . The rules are downloadable from the third black button above.The National finals are at Ponds Forge, Sheffield on 20th June. The divisional finals are in Guildford on 25th April. There are no such further steps for those children who do well in the 50m individual races. PLEASE SCROLL down for further information for potential volunteers/officials and also for the order the events are swum in and for a brief summary of the relay rules.
HELP! We need volunteers to help us run this meet
The Kent Primary Schools Championships on Sunday 22 March 2026 at Hartsdown Pool, Margate in the morning, WU 9am start 9.30am , finish 12pm noon, are short of officials and timekeepers. If you are qualified, in training, or just willing to help out ( I have stop watches) although we also have, courtesy of kind hosts Thanet SC, full electronic timing, so if you are a bit rusty/inexperienced in holding a stop watch, the time you take would just be a "back-up" time usually, so do not worry if you press the stop watch in error! See you in the officials room at 8.45am. Travel expenses will be paid and you will receive a bottle of wine. Drinks and snacks will also be provided. We should be finished by 12pm midday. It would be great if you would kindly volunteer your services to help school swimming in Kent. Just kindly let me know johngking119@live.com if you can make it ASAP. Huge thanks!
Massive thanks to Thanet SC, once again, for their wonderful support of School Competitive Swimming in Kent by kindly hosting this event.
John King
Kent Schools' Swimming Association
Swimming Manager
johngking119@live.com
ESSA Relay rules. A brief summary
Full details are via the third black button above or via the fourth black button above in the order of events file.
Relay Swimmers must come from year 5 and or 6 only. No swimmers from younger years are allowed. Relays are 4x25m Free and also 4x25m Medley. Swimmers may not dive in on legs 2 and 4 but start in the water. Swimmers in legs 2, and 4 must keep a hand touching the wall before setting off after an incoming swimmer touches the wall ( a foot still touching the wall is not enough). The order and type of stroke allowable in the medley relay races is as follows for Large schools category and also for Open schools category it is Backstroke, Breaststroke, (Butterfly or Breaststroke) and Freestyle. For Small schools category it is Backstroke, Breaststroke, (Any Stroke), and Front Crawl.
"Freestyle" means any stroke apart from backstroke, breaststroke or butterfly. Small schools usually tend to opt for Backstroke, Breaststroke, Front Crawl and Front Crawl. But that is not allowed for Large and Open Schools, due to the third leg having to be Butterfly or Breaststroke.
