Ideas booklet - Parent Directory
Ideas booklet - Parent Directory
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✔ create a display for your reception<br />
area on the water safety code.<br />
For details of the code visit<br />
www.rospa.com/waterandleisure<br />
safety/youngpeople/index.htm<br />
✔ encourage children to test their<br />
water safety knowledge in the<br />
quizzes and games at<br />
www.nc.uk.net/safeswimming/<br />
and www.beachsafety.org.uk<br />
✔ work with children and families<br />
to create an eye-spy type activity<br />
sheet to use on days out to places<br />
like the beach, countryside or<br />
park. Combine things to spot with<br />
hazards to watch out for, eg ‘ivy’<br />
which has poisonous berries,<br />
‘red flag’ which means it isn’t safe<br />
to swim<br />
✔ teach children the meaning of<br />
warning signs near water and<br />
warning flags at beaches<br />
• every year, around 20 children and young people drown at<br />
the seaside or in rivers, canals, lakes and flooded gravel pits<br />
• no-one should swim in canals, rivers or flooded gravel pits<br />
because there may be dangerous objects under the water.<br />
Sudden changes of depth and water temperature also create<br />
a considerable risk<br />
• swim jackets and armbands are not a substitute for adult<br />
supervision. Children may remove them and slip into the<br />
water very quickly<br />
• in the last ten years, 45 children have died on farms and<br />
more than 400 have been seriously injured. While most<br />
deaths were of children living on farms, others were of<br />
children playing unsupervised or trespassing on farms<br />
• farms are workplaces not playgrounds. Children can be run<br />
over by tractors and trailers, trampled by large animals, and<br />
drown in slurry lagoons and grain stores. Nasty injuries can<br />
happen during falls from haystacks, and children are at risk<br />
from dangerous chemicals in bottles, bags and sheep dips<br />
• falling asleep at the wheel accounts for as many as one in<br />
ten of all crashes on Britain’s roads<br />
• if the driver falls asleep at the wheel, the car’s occupants<br />
are 50% more likely to die or suffer serious injury, because<br />
a sleeping driver does not react before a crash<br />
12 Photocopying is permitted for non-commercial use provided that each sheet is reproduced precisely and retains all logos
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