Harrogate High School

Address:

Ainsty Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG1 4AP

Facilities:

Pool:    20m x 10m

Depth:  0.9m-1.7m

Temp:  30 degrees

Swimming Caps must be worn (provided free of charge by Swim2u).

Location:

Sited in central Harrogate, close to the stray and the hospital, the pool provides excellent links throughout the Harrogate district and Knaresborough (please see map below).

Directions to the Pool:

Go past St. Roberts Primary School and then through the main gates of Harrogate High School and park in the car park directly on your right.  The swimming pool is adjacent to the car park and has a sign directly above the doors to the entrance (please see site map below).

Entrance to the building:

Enter through the main doors into the foyer and the girls changing rooms are to the left and the boys to the right. Pool access for swimmers is through the changing rooms and for spectators is directly opposite the main doors.

Viewing Point:

There is 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 Harrogate High School pool provides a 20 metre length by 10 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 minimum, generally accepted, length distance of 20m, to build up stamina and distance through to pre-competition. 

The pool also provides a 0.9 metre shallow end, suitable for the very young or very weak swimmer and a 1.7 metre deep end that allows the full range of Amateur Swimming Association (A.S.A.) awards, for the high ability swimmer, to be challenged. 

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.

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