Swimming Pool Project Proposal
Posted on March 5, 2020
Institutional Affiliation
It is with the desire to make the student among the best and most competitive in both local
and national Olympic games that I hereby table this proposal on behalf of the school Board of
management. It seeks to request funding of $359000 so as it can be able to construct a classic
modern swimming pool and facilitate the training program for the students. This project is
not only going to provide an enabling environment for our students but also the other students
and youths of this region, cater for the highly experienced trainers as well as organize for
local competitions.
It has come to our realization that the swimming games are a rapidly growing field in
Olympics among the students in High schools locally as well as at the national level. Again,
training equips the youths with skills that make it possible for them to be able to survive in
the mostly increasing drowning cases due to flooding rivers within this area. In addition, it
will put them in a better position and present opportunities to win titles and prizes in the
swimming Olympic games.
In the quest to instill the best skills and experience among the students of our school as well
as the youths of the region as per the capability and competence so far demonstrated by our
students in the fast-participated games that prove our ability to make a difference in the
students. If you have any concerns, you can reach us through the school address. We greatly
appreciate your time and consideration for funding as we anticipate that together we can
make a difference in the students swimming Olympics ability.
Yours sincerely,
Project Manager
Executive summary
In the wake of increasing interest and competition in swimming Olympics, gaming is
becoming an interesting sector to shift focus on. The schools that have access to the necessary
facilities have become more competitive and are today enjoying the fruits of their
performance. Many students are getting sponsorship out of their appealing performance and
the schools are getting enormous support from various organizations. The program is joining
support because it develops the skills among the youths as well as making them be able to
survive in the currently experienced flooding in the area. Coopersville school is among the
institutions in the region that are well known for nurturing students’ talents and skills
preparing them to be highly competitive among their competitors. In addition, swimming
increases personal physical fitness, improves self-esteem, and become more confident to
advance their lives.
The overall goal of the swimming project is to create an enabling environment for the
students and youths through the provision of the necessary facilities, equipment, and training
to make them be highly competitive in the local and national Olympic games and bring
meaning and quality to their lives. The school is having less than 20% number of students
who are participating in the swimming games; however, their performance is incapable of
making them proceed to great heights. Even with this performance, they have been relying on
unreliable preparatory practices since they have been using facilities from other institutions
which have made developing their capabilities to their full potential a challenge. The first is
because the availability of the facilities may not necessarily coincide with the formulated
school schedule. The other thing is that the number of students being who the school can take
to the swimming pool for the swimming practices is limited due to the costs associated with
it. In addition, there is no guarantee for high-quality training since the trainees in the other
school’s swimming facility may not have met the standards for the qualified trainees and
because the time of training and the one given to each particular trainee may not be sufficient
to ensure they get the best swimming abilities. By creating a 100% enabling environment, the
school is aiming at increasing the participation of the student in the game increase by 80%,
providing quality training which anticipates achieving 90% win of all local and national of all
the Olympic games.
Coopersville school is located in Abbington, a city that has the highest population in the state,
and it’s well for its highest poverty levels. As the crime rate has increased over time in the
area with the increasing incorporation of youths in criminal activities. The majority of the
children in the city live in poverty and most of the people in the community live in stressful
conditions which act as a driving factor into the crime hence setting up the project will not
only benefit the students but also the community at large. In addition, the interest and
participation in the swimming Olympics have increased within the neighboring schools with
our students willing to participate but lacking the necessary capacity to do so within the
stipulated time. Swimming improves the physical fitness of the students, helps them to make
fun and live a positive life which increases their performance and quality of life.
Our swimming project once completed will be put under a competent management team that
will work towards achieving the goals and objectives of the project. The pool will majorly
serve and provide an opportunity to students of the school, other students in the neighborhood
as well as youths to advance their abilities, improve their health and become highly
competitive.
The whole project is anticipated to take six months since the time of beginning of the
construction work while the expected budget is $489000, of which the extra $130000 will be
raised through the school funding and parents’ contributions. Your grant of $359,000 will
enable us to establish the program and serve more than 80% of the students to have a quality
life. Thank you for your consideration.
Problem statement
Being in the Abbington area where surrounding schools are becoming highly successful and
competitive in swimming Olympics, gaming is becoming very popular and common among
the area youths and the students require a nearby facility which they can access with ease and
has the required equipment. While scholars understand that it’s not every child is born an
Olympic swimmer or perhaps no matter the kind of motivation that is given to youths or the
drive, achievement of a moderate success can be quite hard for a person without the
availability of an enabling microenvironment (Rieckmann, 2017). It is believed that when all
the necessary swimming equipment and facilities are available at a given locality, it has
inherent motivation where the people get to make practice, at times out of self will or more
importantly of peer influence from those who already like the gaming activity. However, it’s
not only the availability of the necessities but also making them more affordable and
accessible to the members of which it’s intended to serve.
When the students from this locality want to do swimming practice to increase competence,
they have to move to the neighborhood district schools for their activity. The implication of
this is that there is a lot of careful strategic planning that should be done to make the program
a success. The first is to establish rapport with the institution or school that has a swimming
pool so that time is allocated entirely for the students from our department. Like this, when
the swimming pool is available for this might collude with the program or the schedule
(Loucopoulos, & Kavakli, 2016). Another thing is that transporting students may only take a
limited number of students due to the financial costs are associated with it and that limits the
potential capacity building within the many interested students. This poses problems to the
development of the career among highly capable students.
Having the project within the school compound will have the advantage of overcoming
challenges such as transport and capacity limitations of the students participating in the
swimming Olympics. In addition, quality training, the thing that is intended in the whole
project may not be a guarantee. The belief that swimming facilities and other equipment are
available is all that it takes for students to receive proper training is erroneous and unjustified
as it may be the case when students are taken for training in other places. Studies have found
that individual-centered training is progressively becoming acceptable among scholars and
being adopted by institutions. For example, in this case, quality training will major on getting
to give a chance to each particular student, observing them, and identifying where the gap
may be during the swimming. moreover, the students should be allowed time to express what
is their feeling regarding the whole exercise, what challenges they are facing in the exercise,
and establish whether there is interest in the game. This quality time with the students helps
to identify limitations that the students may be having and help them to find or come up with
solutions that are suitable and can work best for each one of them. This kind of training is
very difficult to have especially when the training is taking place elsewhere.
The other thing is that when the project is under the school management, there is more
control over its operation. Unlike the other swimming pools, the one that is a project of the
school will be having its own goals and objectives to meet, which may differ from the others.
It will be easier for the management to target the production of results, quality rather than the
exercise, quantity as it is with the other case. Because the goals and objectives are under the
control of the school, it will be possible to make necessary changes when a given action is
taken that is not producing the desired outcome. Again, the coaches and managers of the pool
will be required to produce results and thus the pressure given to them will provoke
performance and consequently lead to quality training and make the school very competitive
as compared to the others.
The students who have participated in swimming have proved to have improved performance
in not only games but also in their studies. Apart from the benefit physical fitness of the
activity acts as a crime-reducing measure as many of the youths spend their free time doing
the games. Therefore, if the project is initiated it will serve to better the gaming talents of the
students and youths in the neighborhood, improve their health, life quality as well as reduce
the high crime rates in the area.
Program description
Coopersville school is located in Abbington city, a region that is surrounded by other cities
for which games have taken shape and attracted a lot of interest from various institutions.
Many gaming activities have taken place and a lot of competitions have been organized in the
wake of developing talents and skills among youths and many young growing people. Among
the games that have attracted a lot of interest from financiers, stakeholders, governmental as
well as non-governmental institutions are the swimming Olympics.
In the past few years, the game was taking place in less than 10 schools out of close to fifty
schools in the entire region. By the time it started, a few schools had access to or had an
available swimming pool within their area. Other schools had to use the facilities from other
schools from where an arrangement was made and our school was among them. However,
many schools went ahead to develop swimming facilities in their institutions which become
independent, and began to make their own devised training of students and youths from the
neighborhood. Another issue is that many stakeholders and institutions realized the threat
posed by the increasing floods. It was proposed that the swimming games in schools from
such areas be incorporated into the co-curriculum activities for the students and this to be
extended to training youths from the neighborhood. This was not only made to develop the
skills and talents of the youth but also to act as a positive control measure whereby people
could use the skills to their rescue and own safety in the event any floods occur or they find
themselves in a situation that demands the application of these skills.
However, with time many discovered that swimming games were among the highly rated and
enjoyable in the world. With this discovery, it becomes so obvious that a lot of changes took
place with the shift occurring to favor this type of Olympic games. The practice became more
official and rigorous and a significant number of students taking part in the games become
more and more, competition after competition. Therefore, Coopersville school was not long
left behind as the wave of the increasing popularity of the game was over and training began
taking a considerable number of best-selected students to competitions.
However, there were challenges of numerous challenges for the schools that were beginning
the training to amass and develop skills to compete locally leave alone nationally. The only
available facilities for the training were quite a distance from our institution and training
adequately and efficiently became a major challenge. Nevertheless, there are significant
achievements that have been made by our school from various competition participation. For
a total of ten swimming Olympic games that have been organized, our school has managed to
win in two of the games. In addition, our school has managed to get five Olympic prizes
being the third leading school from the region to win the awards.
The various achievements that the school has made become the basis that if the students are
provided with quality training, then the performance would become an appealing one. It was
from this aspect that the school management took it upon themselves to establish a committee
that was mandated with the role of investigating what strengths and weaknesses the school
team had and has to work on to bring about better performance. The committees’ research
involved interviewing the school staff, the games in charge, and the student participants on
what challenges they have been facing regarding the swimming games as well as collecting
the information about their opinions regarding what the school management could do to make
the school better placed and a center of swimming Olympic games.
The findings of the research committee established that the students did not receive enough
time to practice. There are only two schools in the city that the school had a choice to use due
to the closeness to our school. Even though they are the ones close to the school, the distance
remains considerably long and transporting of students to the area would cost the school and
thus even if the training is to be undertaken, the school would do it in the manner which was
possible within the available resources. In addition, the fact that the training was to be carried
out would not provide the sole solution to the existing problems. The students required
advanced training from highly qualified coaches whom the school may obtain instead of
depending on the coaches from the facility. It was noted that the participating students
required student-centered training in which the need of each participant would be met and
this was possible if the people carrying out the training exercise would be close to the
students.
As it was with the report, the major challenge with this program would be the lack of
available facility and having a program in place that would create an enabling environment to
give chance to effective and positive practicing for the students. Therefore, there committee’s
recommendation was to construct a swimming pool facility in the school. It was noted that if
the facility is established in our school, it’s going to serve an area of approximately 50 miles
since the other swimming pools are far away. In addition, the swimming pool facility will be
a modern type facility and it’s expected to have a high capacity for training a greater number
of students at once. Again, it would act as an alternative training center to the already existing
swimming pools which will help reduce pressure on them and make training in this Olympic
game more meaningful and quality. This will also provide an opportunity for the schools and
youths to get a different experience in the training and talent development process. Apart
from this, the given that this kind of practice is recommended as part of the physical exercise
in life when the young people will take part in them, it will improve be suitable for
maintaining their health and making them physically fit to take up various tasks.
Goals and Objectives
The goal of the Olympic swimming programs is to ensure the provision of a positive or
enabling atmosphere for each student-athlete to improve, develop and make fun or enjoy the
swimming sport. In addition, the school wishes to offer the best instruction to the trainees by
employing the best coach who are highly trained, professional, and experienced. Moreover,
each practice will be made in a way that best fits the interest of the swimmer. Moreover, it
looks forward to a competitive environment with the programs having challenges to achieve
greater heights.
The specific objectives of the program include providing quality training and competition to
all swimmers, which will be achieved by having all the necessary facilities that every
swimmer requires. In addition, the program seeks to provide an enabling environment that
will grow the trainers’ ability and capacity by 100%. The ultimate desire in establishing the
program is to make the willing trainees practice every time they are free and able to sharpen
their skills (Thomas, et. al, 2016). By construction of a swimming pool facility in the school
and acquisition of all the gaming equipment, enough to serve the numerous students that we
have in our school as well as the near neighborhood, they will be able to access and use the
facility to the best of their ability. In this way, the school will be able to meet the set goals of
becoming a highly competitive institution and producing the best swimming competitors
(Kasale, et. al, 2018).
Methods used
Coopersville school has devoted itself to using various methods in the quest to meet its
overall goal in 2019 in the swimming Olympics. Depending on the findings of the success of
the various projects established around Abbington where our school is placed, the method
used can be said to be effective. Through benchmarking and maximizing the close
relationship that the school has with the various institutions that have been very successful, it
wishes to get the best expertise.
The objective of the school swimming pool project is to make the school the center for
excellence regarding the swimming Olympics in local, state, and at the national level now
and beyond by providing the students with enabling environment to make the participants
gain exceptional skills in swimming and become highly competitive.
Methods
The school management shall select the most experienced surveyors, planning and designing
companies, construction contractors, coaches, and instructors. This will happen following a
period of rigorous exercise of advertisement for the tenders, taking interviews, and selection
based on experts’ input and advice.
The contracted companies shall be allowed to undertake various tasks and shall be required to
make a report of what they intend to do and how the plans they have for the project can
enable them to meet the deadline. This report shall be used in the assessment and evaluation
process for the project against time to establish compliance. The information will also be
used to inform actions taken from the findings from time to time.
Given that different materials can use in the construction of the swimming pool, any choice
should be well-validated, and especially where several alternatives are available, reasons
must be served to the management in writing why particular purchases and supplies from a
particular company are made but not the other just to make sure the quality check is
maintained. This practice where a particular choice is accounted for will limit the chance of
having use of low-quality products and services.
The served reports shall be given to external auditors who will make their recommendations
to be tabled before the stakeholders in meetings that shall be held regularly for the
appropriate decision-making process. Depending on whether the report is adopted, the
necessary action shall be taken which will either give the go-ahead to purchase or get a
certain service or require them to seek the products and services from other suppliers whose
quality of better or recommendable.
Four groups of student participants shall be formed to take part in the exercise which shall be
placed under a coach. The coaches are then required to begin the training, each taking each
particular group and ensuring that they impart proper skills to the participants. The coaches
shall be made to make reports to the administration as findings from various performance
assessments as well as administered exams. The results from this kind of test shall be used to
come up will individual-centered training for the students and other youths. It will also help
identify challenges that each participant at a personal level. After 3 weeks training period, the
groups shall then be allowed to have a competition, both internal and at times external so that
the school can help can rate the performance of their participating students.
The student’s groups shall be selected through random sampling, required to write experience
stories to help detect changes in attitude and be able to detect areas where changes are
needed. This exercise shall be carried out continuously and more stress is made for non-
performing or flopping students to be able to identify what the underlying cause could be.
The ones isolated shall be taken through special sharing and training sessions to help them
develop their skills and be at the same level as others.
The best performers in the competitions shall be celebrated and awarded as well as being
supported for various personal activities while maintaining performance. They shall also be
able to meet and compete successfully with students from surrounding schools. This will help
in making the best swimming Olympic team for both local and national competitions and
make the school produce the best swimming skills and talents from the region.
Evaluation
Evaluation of the progress and value addition of the swimming project of the Coopersville
school will present an opportunity for the management and stakeholders to be able to measure
both short-term and long-term goals and outcomes achievements. The performance indicators
of the project which measures the short term outcomes or progress shall involve the
administrators collecting data on what has been accomplished, what is available for what
purpose, who is accountable for what in the project as well as giving their quality input about
the project as well as identifying whether the progress is within the time planned to complete
the tasks. Ideally, this includes the reports that will be received from various contractors who
have been given the tender regarding their plan and products used. In addition, the
administrators shall contact external auditors who will assess the quality indicators as claimed
by the contractors and validate or dispute them (Giorgi, et. al, 2017). The report shall be
presented to the school management, board, the district, and regional administrators as well
as the sponsors and project facilitators.
The other area will be in measuring the long-term outcomes. The long-term goal in
establishing the project was to make the students gain the skills and competence in swimming
Olympics so that they can become highly competitive not only within the area but also in the
countryside. In so doing, the exercise shall be done in several phases. The first one would be
a medical doctor or qualified health professional assessment of the student’s participants for
their physical fitness including but not limited to flexibility, aerobics, endurance, and weight
(Lyngdoh, & Dhaliwal, 2018). The students that will be found to have a moderate to high
physical will be allowed to continue with the practice and focus on perfecting their
performance as they are at less risk while the ones with low fitness will be allowed to
perform the activity under regular check to help them be able to improve. The other outcome
would be the use of competition to determine how best the training is suited. The internal
competition will help in selecting the best team to take up the competition at the local and
national levels. When the training is quality and standards, the team is expected to be best
placed to win the swimming games failure which forms the basis for lack of meeting the
performance expectations. Competition is the comparison that is arranged between two or
more teams under the same and being under the same jury that determines the best
performing one. In addition, the other long-term indicator for evaluation of the success of the
project shall be determining the number of successful candidates that the training session
produced over time since one of the objectives is to have close to 100% participation in the
exercise and have them impacted with quality swimming skills among the students. The more
the students get involved in the training program and graduate fully trained, the more the
projects get close to actualizing this particular objective.
The instructors and coaches shall be allowed to use their own established assessment check-
in which they should observe the students while underwater for the skills that have been
taught and learned. Out of this, the best baseline performance shall be established for the
students participating in the exercise (Jiao, et. al, 2016). Some of the skills learned include
being able to paddle from the middle of the pool to the sides, holding your breath in water,
and being able to tread water for at least a minute. The students shall also be required to write
their own stories about the experiences that they are having so that any changes in attitude for
the training shall be established (Samset, & Christensen, 2017). Moreover, written exams
about swimming shall be administered to the student’s participants with the minimum score
being expected to be 80% and above. In addition, the parent’s satisfaction with the program
shall be established from interviews where the performance index shall be set at 80% and
above.
Budget for the project
Initiation
The swimming pool construction will begin with the preparation of the area or the sit. All
necessary clearance of the trees and the obstructions on site shall be cleared with the tractors,
the land shall then be ready for excavation. The excavator shall be used to sink the land and
the soil carried to a different locality (Franz, & Leicht, 2016). The swimming pool shall be
sunk with a depth of 5 meters. However, the length of the pool is anticipated to be 4 meters at
the deepest end and 2 meters at the shallow end. The pool shall slope from the low end at 2
meters then they go deep progressively for 2 meters. This process digs and trims the pool into
the design that is suitable for the type of use specification (Stone, et. al, 2017).
Materials
In addition, the steel mesh or grid used is aimed at making the floor or sides strong and
reinforced. The steel should be reinforced using the wires to tie the steel at some intersection.
The sharp steel ends are bent and block spacers are placed at the bottom for ensuring it will
exist between the Gunite. Good plumbing should be done using a high-grade pipe ensures
that they don’t leak or deteriorate. Gunite is a mixture of sand, cement, and rocks that are put
on the steel for reinforcing the pool (Hof, et. al, 2018).
Finalizing and total Budget
After the basement is laid in place, there is the need to put a material that is waterproof and
does not allow water to seep into the ground. Tiles and coping are placed on the top to make
the pool waterproof for water retention. At this point, the pool is ready but requires to be
allowed time for curing. Here, ducking appropriate material is placed on the pool and allowed
2 to 7 days for curing although the duration depends on the time of the year (Erdogan, et. al,
2017). Conclusively, the cost for the construction material is $ 359,000.
As it is seen setting up the project would be highly beneficial not only to the school but also
to the community at large. It will enable the school to nurture, grow and develop swimming
talents and skills to promote the general individual health, well-being, and social welfare of
the society.
