Boys starting at SACS are requested come waterborne, so that right from their first swimming lesson in Grade 1 we can build on the basics and develop confident and competent swimmers. The motivational SACS Swimming Scheme encourages the boys in their first four years at SACS by promoting a variety of aquatic skills, developing the traditional racing strokes and encouraging general confidence in the water. The scheme is split into three badges with the first being earned in Grade 2 during the first term.

Extra-murally we encourage and offer swimming at different levels with “Improvers” primarily catering for the Foundation Phase, a “C” Squad for boys at an intermediate stage and “A” and “B” Squads for our team swimmers. The Foundation Phase, from Grade 2, has a special junior squad, commonly known as “Squid Squad”. In the extra-mural programme there are some 200 boys actively participating in swimming during each season.

In 2010, SACS Junior School won the prestigious Pentagular Swimming Gala for the tenth consecutive year, the “A” League Trophy Gala for the third successive year and performed with very creditably at both the “B” and “C” League galas.