AES Channel Swim 2027

Following on from my own personal Channel Swim in 2025, a few students showed an interest in completing this challenge themselves. Consequently, I am working with a team of students from the school that will attempt this swim in June 2027 as a team relay. This will work by having one swimmer in the water for an hour and then the next swimmer will take over and we will keep rotating through the team until one of them reaches France. This will be a non wetsuit swim and the students will have to learn to overcome the mental challenges of swimming in the cold and deep channel. For some of them, they may even be stung by jellyfish! They will have to work as a team to support each other and they will have to commit to a considerable amount of training and cold water exposure.

Our students have now gone through a qualification process and we have our 6 students that will form the team. The team is made up from students in Years 8, 9 and 11 and they are swimming to raise funds for a brand new outside Gym which will be built as part of the school new build. This will provide students with a wonderful new facility which they will be able to access at break and lunch. 

Whilst donations will support the AESA, a portion of the money donated will also contribute towards the cost of the challenge.