Lesson video

- Hello, my name is Mr. Lindley, and I'm gonna be your PE teacher for today.

In this set of lessons, we're going to be looking at water safety and self-rescue skills.

I always enjoy looking forward to teaching swimming and water safety at my school, and there's a particular reason why.

Before I was a PE teacher, I had a job connected to this.

I wonder if anyone can guess what that might have been.

Yep, I was a lifeguard.

So, water safety, self-rescue, it's a key part of the national curriculum for swimming.

So these lessons, they're not there to replace the work that you'll do when you go to the swimming pool for lessons, no.

But hopefully they'll enhance and develop your knowledge and understanding of water safety, self-rescue, and what to do in a water-based emergency.

Throughout these lessons, we might have short physical activity breaks.

I don't like sitting for too long in front of a screen, so we might jump up, get moving, before carrying on with our learning, so please join in with that with me.

In this first lesson, we're going to be looking at different water environments and the potential hazards connected to those water environments.

We do need to keep ourselves safe in today's lesson, so ensure there's a parent or a trusted adult with you when you're taking part.

Ensure there is space for you to work safely, including overhead, and maybe pop your trainers on rather than doing that in just your socks so you don't slip.

Check the floor's not slippy, especially when we do those little physical activity breaks, and wear something comfortable.

Pop your hair up, and remove any jewellery.

In today's lesson, we're gonna need something to write with and something to write on, so maybe an exercise book or a piece of paper, a pen or a pencil.

I'm gonna let you go and get those items, so pause and click resume once you've collected them.

So in today's lesson, we're gonna be exploring lots of different water environments.

Then we're gonna be looking at the potential hazards and trying to spot those in those different water environments.

We'll then have a little go at a water safety sign/flag game where we're trying to match up different flags and signs to what they actually mean.

The sort of things that we might find, the flags and signs we might find at the beach or at the lakeside or at the swimming pool.

And then you can have a go at the exit quiz.

Okay guys, before we go any further, let's have a little physical activity break.

What I want you to do is stand yourself up and move into a nice, safe space where you've got space to move.

Okay, let's just get ourselves jogging.

We don't wanna be sat for too long in front of the screen before we do something physical.

So let's get running, on the spot, bringing those knees nice and high, and let's go for about 20 seconds.

Okay, guys? That's really gonna help get the blood pumping round the body.

Let's go for another 10 seconds.

Superb.

Let's do some star jumps, okay? Keep with me.

That's lovely.

Let's do another five.

And superb.

Let's do some spotty dogs.

That's another great one to get the blood pumping.

Lovely.

Back to jogging.

And this time, let's touch the floor.

Let's do a little jump.

Floor, jump, floor, jump, floor, jump.

Give your body a little bit of a shake, okay? And we're ready to carry on with our learning.

There are a couple of keywords in today's session, the first being water environment.

I've mentioned it, but what does it actually mean? It means somewhere with water.

This could be inside, outside, natural, or manmade, so everything from the swimming pool to a garden paddling pool to a river.

Another keyword, a hazard, a danger or a risk.

And we are gonna be spotting all sorts of hazards later on in today's session.

So, Activity 1 - Exploring different water environments.

Okay, the first thing you're going to need is your piece of paper and your pen.

I would like you to write down as many different water environments in a list on your piece of paper.

Now, I've already mentioned a couple, but to get you going, I'm gonna mention another one for you, okay? Now, I live in Worcestershire, and running right through the middle of our county is the River Severn.

So the rivers.

Rivers are dangerous places that can be also beautiful places to go for a walk, but yeah, rivers.

There's a water environment for you just to get you going.

Could you list them all now on your piece of paper? If so, click pause, and click resume when you've run out of all the amount of ideas you could possibly think of.

How many did you find? 5, 10? Well done if you did.

Brilliant.

So, looking at all of those you've listed down on your piece of paper, which one do you think is the most dangerous to swim in, and why? Hmm, pause the video, have a think, and then come back to me.

That's an interesting question, isn't it? Which one's the most dangerous to swim in? Well actually, they've all got potential hazards, so they're all dangerous to swim in.

We can make some of them less dangerous by possibly having lifeguards present at the swimming pool, signs to help us, but there's always potential hazards in any water environment, so we have to be super careful.

Okay, again, looking at that list that you've got in front of you now, could you order them from the most dangerous down to the least dangerous? Now this, of course, is an opinion.

Have a little think.

Pause the video, and have a go at that for me now.

That was a really tricky exercise.

I don't think there's necessarily a right and wrong response to that, but it certainly makes you think which one could be more dangerous, and why, or least dangerous.

It's a really interesting point, and we're gonna be looking at more of those water environments very shortly.

Okay, finally on this one, I'd like you to again look at that list that you've written down in front of you.

And for each one of those, next door to it, could you please write down just one or possibly two hazards you could possibly think of connected to that water environment? Now, I mentioned the River Severn running right through the county where I live.

So a potential hazard for the River Severn, well, there's lots, but I would write down it's a fast-flowing currents.

The current is often fast-flowing, and you don't often see that as you're walking along.

But if someone was to fall in, or an object, you soon see how quickly the object is taken away.

So a potential hazard for a river, a fast-flowing current.

Have a go at thinking of a hazard, one or two, for all of those that you've written down.

Pause the video, and click resume once you've done that.

Brilliant.

Now I, on the next page, have written down the water environments that I could think of and a potential hazard.

So let's have a look at those now.

Okay, paddling pools or garden ponds, something in your garden.

And I was thinking slippery surfaces for this one.

Often with paddling pools, my own experience and my experience with my own children, that when you step in, often the floor of it's really slippy.

So you could slip, ended up banging your head, and oh dear, all sorts of issues.

Same as a garden pond.

Often, there's sort of concrete slabs or stones round the outside.

They get wet and could be easily very slippy, and a young one could easily slip and fall in.

Okay, swimming pools.

Well, lots of dangers here, lots of hazards.

But I was thinking particularly where the swimming pool changes depth, and that could be a really potential hazard if you're a non-swimmer or a weak swimmer.

Often as well, other swimmers.

They could be a potential hazard, couldn't they? Flailing arms, other people getting in your way, certainly could be a hazard.

What else have we got down? Oh yes, I wrote beaches.

We all love going to the beach.

What are potential hazards? Well, again, lots, but I was thinking in particular waves and tides.

So you might go into the sea, even with lifeguards present, and you think, "Oh, this is really nice." But actually, the tide could take you further away, and before you know it, you could be drifting out.

So we have to be really careful around the tides and those waves when we're at the beach.

I put these three together, rivers, streams, and small brooks.

They've all got their hazards, but in particular, because often the water's a little bit murky, you can't see what's hidden underneath.

Maybe hidden weeds or hidden rocks.

Who knows? But often, hidden hazards can be an issue in rivers or streams. Canals, lots of these near where I live, and I love going for walks along them.

But I wonder, what are potential hazards? Well, again, lots, but I put down locks and the weirs where the water flows over the weir to down to a new level.

Can be really dangerous.

You wouldn't wanna get caught up in a lock.

Reservoirs.

Again, I've got one quite near to my house, and often it's the banks I always think for this, the hazard, the banks on the side.

What else? Okay.

Lakes, lakes.

Again, who knows the depth of the lake? So a hazard for me is those hidden rocks and stones.

No one knows for sure quite what's underneath.

So there's my example.

Hopefully you got similar ones and you've been starting to think about the hazards connected to those water environments.

Well done.

Here's a key question for you.

A water environment is somewhere with water.

True or false? This is a nice easy one.

Absolutely, it's true.

Okay, let's have another little physical activity break before moving on.

This time, we're gonna look at our core strength, something really important in swimming.

So again, let's find ourself a space.

And this time, we're gonna start on the floor.

Gonna start in our press-up position like this.

And all I want you to do is go down onto your elbows and back up again.

Let's go down, up, down, up, down, up.

Well done.

This time, bring your leg up and back, leg and back, leg and back, leg and back.

Excellent work there.

This time, I want you to lift one arm in front, thinking how this is great for core strength.

Stretch, hold it, before swapping over for the other arm.

Hold the shape, and down.

This time, I'm gonna hold my arm up and my opposite leg.

Oh, keep the balance.

Good core strength.

Hold the shape before swapping over.

Hold the shape, and down.

Jumping up, backwards.

There we go, before jumping.

Thanks, guys.

That's a nice little activity break, and then we can get back to our learning.

On to activity number two, spotting hazards.

I think you'll really enjoy this activity.

So here we have a scene, a scene from a river.

Now, there are eight potential hazards.

So in a minute, I'd like you to pause the video and see if you can jot down the eight potential hazards.

Certainly for me to help you get going, I'm gonna give you one.

I think the lifebuoy, the red and white lifebuoy ring on the brown post, that does not look in good state of repair, does it? So there's a hazard.

If someone does get into danger, by the looks of it, there could possibly be somebody, that lifebuoy would be no use to helping them.

So there's my potential hazard to get you going.

Can you find all eight? Pause the video now, and click resume once you've found them.

Right, did you find them? So as I mentioned, the broken, the missing rescue lifebuoy looks a bit strange.

It does not look in good repair.

I'm thinking, yeah, that needs sorting.

That's a very big potential hazard.

Ah, we've got a runner, a runner by the edge.

Not a good place to be running, right by the edge of a river, is it? No.

We also need to be careful when we're cycling that we don't cycle too close to the edge, and you can see the yellow character cycling along the edge there.

He's fine at the moment, but I think you wouldn't wanna be getting much closer, would you? So that's a potential hazard.

Again, we've got a runner, another runner, runner by the edge.

You might slip, of course, and trip, so you have to maybe take a step back when you're running along by the river.

Running is great exercise, but we do have to be careful.

So there's another potential hazard.

In the lake, let's have a look at that.

As I mentioned before, you don't know what are the hidden hazards in a lake.

And as you can see, we've got a tyre, a tyre being pulled up by the fisherman there.

So yeah, potential hidden risks are a worry in a river.

We've got a character there having a go in his own little boat.

But look, he's not wearing a buoyancy aid as opposed to the man who is in his larger boat.

That's certainly a hazard, so we need to make sure we're safe.

If you are ever doing water-based activities such as sailing, kayaking, rowing, paddling, must be wearing a buoyancy aid.

And we always go through a decent company for one of those activities anyway who would ensure that we would.

What else have we got? Ah yes, the water depth can change in a river very, very quickly.

And you can see the two characters there, they've got in danger, haven't they? Because the water, they thought perhaps they were paddling their toes, and quickly it's dropped away from them.

And finally, the banks themselves.

I mentioned banks with reservoirs, but yeah, with rivers, they can be crumbling away, and before you know it, you could slip in if you've been on the edge.

So those are the eight that I found on that picture.

Okay, next, we've got some different water environment pictures, and they've all got their hazards to look at.

So, you can either choose to do one of these or all three of them.

The first one is a garden scene, and there are seven hazards to spot here.

So you could pause the video and try and find seven in this one.

You could also have a go at the swimming pool environment, and there are eight potential hazards in this one.

So again, you could pause the video now to try and find eight.

If you wanted to, you could try to find now 13 potential hazards in the beach scene you can see there.

So again, pause the video to try and find 13.

Good luck.

How did you get on with all those? How many did you find? Did you find them all? Well, we can find out very shortly.

First things first, though, in terms of those hazards that you've spotted, I'd like you to pick, just choose one of the different environments, okay? Maybe the garden scene or the beach scene, it's up to you, or the swimming pool scene.

And for five of those hazards you spotted, could you explain how they could be made safer? What would you do? Here's an example for you.

In the garden scene, there was the water butt, I don't know whether you spotted it, which didn't have a lid on.

And it looked like a young child was playing by the water butt.

Now, a water butt, if you're not sure, is the tub which collects the water from the drain pipes from the house.

There was no lid on it.

So how could it be made safer? The parents, whoever looks after them, could make sure and ensure there was a secure lid on top of the water butt.

So for five of your hazards, could you now think how could you make them safer? Pause the video now and have a think.

Write them down, and click resume once you've done that.

Okay, so if you had a go at the garden scene, there are the potential hazards.

Ah yes, my water butt container with no cover on.

And it looks like that, yeah, the yellow character could easily fall in 'cause they're playing with a ball and there should be a safe lid on top.

And you can see all seven then.

So if you want to try and tick those off if you had a go at them, we've got someone unsupervised in the bath, someone a bit close to the water, the pond.

Crikey, lots of hazards there for you to cross off on your list if you had a go at those.

If you chose the swimming pool environment, there were eight hazards.

Did you spot them all? Everything from slippy floors on the edge.

Crikey, what could the potential, how could that be made safer? I know, there could be a sign saying, "Please walk at all times around the swimming pool" because there could be water, slippy water surfaces.

But yeah, you can see all the different hazards there.

We've got someone unsupervised in the deep end, someone on a rubber ring that possibly is a weak swimmer.

We've got a diver jumping in on top of a swimmer.

Crikey! Let's have a look at all those.

See how many you got right out of eight.

And last of all, there was the beach scene.

There were 13 here.

We've got all sorts going on.

We've got a young character drifting out to sea on the tide on his rubber ring in the distance.

We've got young ones who are wearing arm bands, so they're obviously weak swimmers, unsupervised.

So we'd have to make sure the parents are always watching them or whoever was looking after them.

There's lots of hazards there, and there are lots of things that we could do to avoid those potential dangers.

In the corner, there's a character jumping off the cliff.

Not good at all, not safe.

He could harm himself, harm others.

We don't know how deep the water is.

So how could we make that safer? Maybe signs, a fence, all sorts of things like that to make those things safer.

So hopefully you've found all of them, you've ticked them off, and yeah, hope you enjoyed that activity.

So let's have a little think about safety at the beach in particular.

It is really, really important that when you head to the beach that you look out for the red and yellow flags.

There should be two indicating the stretch of beach that is being monitored by lifeguards, and you know you're in a safer space 'cause you're being watched.

Particularly if you go for a paddle or a swim, you must still stay within those red and yellow flags.

You know you're being watched.

Now, the weather can sometimes catch us out, so it's really important to check the forecast before you head to the beach.

Check that there's not gonna be any vast change in the weather, and also check the tide times.

Again, you don't wanna be caught out with the tide disappearing before you know it.

Always check those two things for me.

Next, blow-up toys and airbeds, those sorts of things.

Really, they're designed for swimming pools and not for the sea.

And there's a few reasons for that.

If you're on a Lilo, one of those airbeds, there could be a gust of wind, a current, a strong current in the sea that could just take you very, very quickly out of your depth, out of the area between the red and yellow flags, and out and into danger.

So in fact, the only blow-up toy really we should be thinking about, it's not really a toy, are arm bands.

They're okay at the beach.

Everything else, really for a swimming pool, all right? And let's think about the water temperature.

We know it can be very cold in the sea.

If you do become overwhelmed or you start to struggle to swim, you need to float to live.

We float on our backs, trying getting our breathing under control.

And if you stay within the red and yellow flag area and you're like that, you know the lifeguards will be watching, they'll come to help and assist you.

Okay, it's time for another little physical activity break.

So let's jump up, find ourself in a safe space.

And this time, let's get jogging again.

That's it, wake that body up.

A few star jumps.

Ah, that's lovely.

A few spotty dogs again.

Lovely.

Now, this time, let's think about that core strength again.

Let's get down into that position.

And this time, I want you to move sideways and back, forwards and back, and forwards like a bear crawl, okay? And back, forwards and back.

And turn around.

Maybe this time, we can even go on our backs, tummies up, and we can move sideways, backwards, forwards.

Really good for core strength.

Jump ourselves up, and jogging on the spot again.

And I feel like I've got myself back ready to do some more learning.

Well done, guys.

Let's get back to our next activity.

So Activity 3, we're gonna be looking at water signs and flags that we might come across in different water environments.

On the next slide, I'm going to show you eight, eight signs or flags connected to water environments.

They've all got their definitions on.

I'm gonna give you about two minutes to read them and see if you can work out why the sign represents that definition before I move on to the next slide, because then it's a test to see if you remembered what they mean, okay? So here comes the slide with the signs and flags and their definitions.

Let's get reading.

Okay.

First one, do not use inflatables.

Yeah, I can see why that sign represents that.

The red flag, dangerous area.

No lifeguards are watching you in this area.

It's unsafe to swim when you see a red flag.

A round sign with a swimmer with a line through the middle.

Yeah, that's do not swim.

The yellow warning sign, that's a large surf or high breaking waves.

Wouldn't be a safe place to go swimming, would it, at the beach? No, so we'd have to look out for that warning sign.

Ah, the black and white flag.

That reminds me of watching Formula 1 racing, but ah, yes, a water sports area.

So perhaps not a good space to go swimming 'cause there's all sorts.

Could be windsurfers, all those sorts of things.

The orange.

Ah, so windsock, yeah.

This flag shows the direction of the strength of the wind.

So if you're thinking of having a swim in the sea, the lifeguards will have taken into account the strength of the wind and make sure that you're not gonna be drifting out to sea.

And yeah, talked about the lifeguards, but the red and yellow flag, that shows where you can swim when you go to the beach.

They'll put one of those flags either side of an area which is safe to swim in because they are watching it.

And finally, another warning sign, a yellow one.

Oh dear, that's a sudden drop.

So again, if we see that sign, we come away from the edge.

Can you remember those? Here we go.

There's the first four.

Pause the video and see if you can work out which of those four match the different definitions.

Click resume when you think you've found all four.

Have you managed it? Let's have a look.

There we go.

The first one is do not use inflatables.

The second one there was the high breaking waves, large surf.

Then we had the windsock, which shows the strength of the wind and the direction.

And of course, that really important one, red flag, do not swim here.

It is not safe to do so, and there are certainly no lifeguards watching it.

Okay, there's four.

Let's have another four.

Pause the video for these four.

See if you can match them up.

Off you go.

Did you succeed in getting all four of these correct? Let's have a look.

The first one, sudden drop, stay away from the edge.

Then we had the one, the do not swim here.

Any time you see the red circle with a line through the middle, you must obey that sign.

Then we have the water sports area.

Really not a safe space to swim in.

And then we had the lifeguards flags, the red and a yellow.

That means that's a safer area to swim.

Well done with that one, guys.

Excellent.

Here's a question for you.

Playing near the water's edge could lead to what water-related risk? Option one, twisting an ankle, option two, falling in and possibly drowning, option three, damaging the embankments, and option four, losing your equipment.

Yeah, it's option two, falling in and drowning.

Well done on today's session.

Let's have a think about what we've experienced and what we've learned.

Well, we've developed an understanding of how to be safe in and around water.

We've looked at the understanding of the term hazard.

I reckon now we can recognise dangers in and near water from all our spotting activity earlier.

Thanks for taking part in today's lesson, and I look forward to seeing you in lesson two around our water safety and self-rescue skills.