Lesson video

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

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

So water safety, self rescue is 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 and before carrying on with our learning.

So please join in with that with me.

And in today's lesson, we're going to be looking at how we respond to a water safety emergency.

We do need to keep ourselves safe in today's lesson.

Please ensure a parent or a trusted adult is with you when you take part.

Ensure there is space for you to work safely, including overhead.

Please put your trainers on when we're moving round.

Please don't move around just in socks in case you slip.

Check the floor is not slippy and also wear something comfortable, put your hair up if needed and remove any jewellery.

In this lesson, you're going to need a timer.

You can find one of these on a mobile phone on the clock app or on a tablet device.

And you're going to be needing some household items but don't worry about what they are just yet because I'm going to challenge you to find some of those very shortly.

So all you need for now then is the timer.

Find yourself a timer, click pause and click resume once you've found one.

Today's lesson is going to start with activity one, who am I, what am I? We're going to play a little game with that one very shortly.

After that, we're going to be a scavenger.

We are going to be a water safety scavenger and we're going to be scavenging for items around our house.

We're then going to look at a shout and signal technique that we should use if we do see somebody in danger in the water.

And we're going to look at various scenarios, maybe scenarios we might come across if we're out walking and we see someone in danger.

And then, of course, you'll be able to have a go at the exit quiz.

There are a couple of keywords and in the first one is afloat.

Floating in water and not sinking.

Something that would be encouraging, anyone that we saw get in danger to try to do so by moving onto their backs or holding something that would help them float.

And our second keyword is signal.

A gesture, action or sound that is used to convey information or instructions.

Often the casualty who had fallen water can signal help.

We can also signal if we were the ones going to assist and help from the side.

So activity one, who am I, what am I? Let's have a little bit of fun.

Okay let's have a little game of what am I or who am I? I'm going to describe something connected to swimming or water safety and I'd like you to shout out the answer before I reveal the answer, okay? So let's start with something nice and easy.

This is waterline.

What am I going to describe here? Okay, we go here for some exercise, and the exercise is in the form of swimming.

Yep, it's a swimming pool or a leisure centre, well done, okay, that was easy.

So we're going to get a little bit harder now.

This next one is who am I? You might find these people at a swimming pool or possibly at a beach.

They are there to help us protect us when we are swimming.

They often way yellow or red clothing.

Did you get it? It's a lifeguard.

Well done.

Next one, let's do a what am I.

If you are out walking and you saw someone in danger in a river or a lake, you'd want to throw one of these to help them.

They're often, bright yellow in colour.

And they're often circular in shape, but like a donut.

Yep.

It's a lifebuoy.

One of those bright yellow rings that people can throw to help someone who's in trouble.

Let's go for who am I? Picture the scene, you might be at the beach but you see someone in danger in the water.

You would want to contact this person or these people.

You might ring 999 to even get hold of them.

Who would it be? Yep, it's the coast guard.

I hope you got that one.

Let's do one more.

What am I? It's the colour red and indicates that you shouldn't swim here because there's no lifeguards present and that could be dangerous.

It's the red do not swim here flag.

I hope you got that one.

Brilliant.

Okay, after the activity, I think it's time for another little physical activity break.

So jump up, find a little bit of a space, follow me and we'll get ourselves moving, getting the blood pumping around the body.

Okay, start off with another little jump again like we've done before just to get our bodies moving and we'll do this so we jump, okay, lovely.

Okay, jump side to side.

That's it, just to get ourselves moving.

It's always good when to get up every now and again to get up and to get moving.

Great for our minds, great for our bodies.

Don't forget with swimming, we need to have really good stamina and core strength.

So it's good to stay fit and healthy, okay? Let's go sideways, this way, and that way, I say keep up.

A bit of side step in, keep moving.

Forwards, jump, backwards, jump, forwards, jump, backwards, jump, brilliant.

Okay, let's get down on the floor and let's do some mounting climb ups.

That's a good one to get the legs going after being sat, brilliant.

Okay, jump up and this time let's do squat and then jump.

Squat, jump.

That's it.

Lovely.

And make sure that arms, shoulders, are really nice are manoeuvring round and round when we'll be sat at the screen.

Okay, shoulders as well, great.

Okay, great one guys.

We can get back to our learning.

Right, activity two.

A water safety scavenger hunt, right.

This is where you need your timer.

And I'd like you to put a time of four minutes on your stopwatch or on your tablet watch, okay? Four minutes.

So let's have a look before we press go, let's have a look at things we need to find around your house.

Now do take care.

Please, you've got tiny four minutes not to run.

Speed march, yes, run, no.

Just so we can keep ourselves safe.

So speed marching around the house, what do we need to find? Two things that would float? So possibly someone was in danger and you need to throw something that floats.

Two of those.

Something you could use to reach someone.

So you're on the bank and you're reaching out and you wouldn't, and you're there just a bit further away than grabbing your hand, what could you use to help reach.

Something in your house hopefully.

Please bring back something that is the colour of the flag that signals no swimming.

Something that you could use to get help.

And then something to give someone when they get out of the water to help them keep warm.

So that's six things all together.

Two things that float, something to reach someone in danger, something the colour of the flag that signals no swimming, something that you would use then to get help, and something that helps people to keep them warm.

Four minutes, press pause, click your timer and off you go.

How did he get on with that one? Did you manage to find all the items? Now yesterday when I was at home, I thought I'd set myself this challenge myself.

And I thought I've got to show you what I managed to find.

I think I took three and a half minutes to find these items. So I found an old lemonade bottle from the recycling.

I thought that's perfect.

That floats.

I run out to the garden shed and found one of my children's floating footballs.

There's my two items that float.

Now something to reach.

I had to run to the garage for this one, and I thought, right, I need to reach with a long broom, okay? And then after I'd run to the garage to find that, one of my children said, "What about just your scarf dad?" So then I thought, yes, it doesn't have to be solid like a broom.

Actually I could throw this to help reach somebody.

So a scurf that could be an option.

I don't know what you came up with.

And then I'd go actually I could have just picked up my dressing gown band, couldn't I? That would have been a good one.

Right, something that colour of red.

I had to run around in this one and I found my little lad's red bus cushion, okay? This was all in three and a half minutes.

I don't know how you got up.

Then I have thought, right of course I need my phone if I'm going to get help with somebody.

The phone might well be using for your timer.

And finally I got from the airing cupboard a towel I would use to help someone if they were getting cold, and if they'd been in the water to warm them up.

Hope you had fun on that one and I hope you managed to find all those items. Here's a question then.

You shouldn't swim in the water if a blue flag is flying.

Is that true or false? Yeah, it's false.

We've mentioned it.

The red flag indicates do not swim here.

The most important flag to look out for, you see red, you should not be swimming there, at the seaside, okay? Right, shout and signal.

This is what we should do.

If we see someone in danger, we should shout to them from the edge and signal to them using hand gestures to help them get back to the edge if they were panicking and couldn't do it themselves.

Okay, so what I would like you to do now is watch this video from Swim England.

And it explains the shout and signal rescue.

After we've watched this, we'll have a go at doing it ourselves.

Shout and signal rescue.

The shout and signal rescue relies on the use of voice and hand signals to instruct and encourage a casualty to make their own way to safety.

People should attract the attention of the casualty by shouting and signalling giving clear instructions, such as kick your legs and using hands and voice signals to instruct the casualty to a position of safety.

The people must remain in a point of personal safety throughout the rescue and must therefore avoid contact with the casualty in order to prevent putting themselves in danger.

People should be taught to seek the assistance of an adult and to never enter the water.

So we've seen how that one works.

We're going to have a go at doing that one ourselves and we'll hopefully draw out some of the real key points to that by keeping ourselves safe as the rescuer but also helping the casualty out as much as we can.

Okay, after watching that video, let's how we'll go ourselves at the shout and signal rescue.

Okay, so here I am at the water's edge, I want you to stand up as well, and our casualty is panicking in the water there.

So what do we need to do? We don't want to get ourselves into danger.

So we want to give ourselves a little bit of space back from the edge, check your space wherever your edge is, where there's a line I don't want you to shout to the casualty.

All I want you to do is keep your arms under the water.

Paddle, paddle with your arms. Show them the technique you're asking them to do instead of panicking.

Keep your arms under the water, that's it.

Kick your legs, kick your legs.

Keep nice and fairly loud because obviously they're going to be hearing all sorts of noises from the water.

Kick your legs, kick your legs that's it.

Come to the edge, right.

Put your hands on the side.

Remember you don't want to get involved yourself, they might end up pulling you in.

So as they start to get to the edge step back and try and help them by encouraging to push down on your hands to climb out, push down that's it get your knee on the edge, oh well done and then go and get a towel to get them nice and warm and get help, okay? So let's just do that again.

Get to the edge of your area, check out your casualty's there, what we will do.

Signal and shout.

Kick your legs, kick your legs.

Kick your arms under the water.

That's it.

Keep paddling, keep paddling.

Keep those arms down.

Keep kicking, that's it.

Keep coming to the edge.

Keep chin up, chin up that's it.

Right, try and push down on the edge to climb out.

That's it.

Pushing me on the edge.

And you're out and you're safe.

Come away from the edge and we're sorted.

Hopefully you've had to go in that, if not press pause and have another go and get someone in your household perhaps to be the casualty and role play that one out for them.

So shout and signal rescue is a really clever way of helping a casualty without getting yourself injured.

Okay, activity number four, some scenarios.

You're going to hear a story now from me and then we're going to think about some different scenarios following that story.

Okay, I'm going to read a story now about a young girl called Chris.

She ends up getting herself into some danger, near water.

As I read the story, I want you to make a bit of a mental note of some of the different hazards that cropped up in the story and could potentially have been avoided, okay? I might help you out with that by giving you a bit of a thumbs up when I spot one of these in this story.

Okay, are we listening carefully? Chris was fed up.

Her mum was at work so she had to go to her granddad's house for the day.

He lived in a small house.

There wasn't really room for Chris to play football in the tiny garden.

But in any case, he didn't like her playing with the balls in the garden because he said the flower beds would be ruined.

What's more, his computer was broken and she'd seen all of his DVDs, it was dead boring.

The trouble was, Chris' granddad thought she could spend the day reading but Chris wasn't that type of girl.

She wanted to be outside playing football or exploring.

Looking out the window, she could see her granddad hard at work weeding the front garden.

Quietly, she slipped out of the back door.

At the bottom of the garden, Chris opened the gate to the path.

Nearby was the canal.

She knew this was an excellent place to explore.

But her granddad would never let her go there unless he went with her too.

She remembered the wide and straight footpath was perfect for dribbling a football.

Chris ran along it, kicking the football from foot to foot.

After a while, Chris stopped to watch a family of ducklings swimming by the edge.

One of the ducklings had something on its beak but Chris couldn't quite see what it was.

She crouched on the edge and lent forward to get a better look.

As she reached forward, she knocked the ball into the water.

Desperately, she grabbed the stick and reached out trying to get the football.

Suddenly she overbalanced and Chris found herself in the freezing water.

"Help!" She shouted, "Help! Help!" But the edge was deserted and the football floated away.

Okay, you're going to pause the video very shortly and I would like you to write down five hazards that Chris didn't take any notice of.

So listen to that story.

What five hazards did Chris did not take any notice of? And then after falling into the water, Chris immediately shouted for help.

If no one was around, what should Chris do next? Think back to what we discussed in lesson two.

Click resume once you've answered those two questions.

So let's have a look at some of the hazards that Chris missed, okay? She went near the canal on her own.

No one knew she was there.

Now that is, first of all, though she should have told someone she was going, shouldn't she? That could have been then avoided.

She played football near the canal.

Not a good plan.

Football, great in a field, great at the park, great in your garden, but not near the canal.

She didn't notice that the canal path and the water didn't have a barrier or a fence.

So she needed to be a little bit more observant.

She went close to the edge and lent over the water.

We should never do that.

Don't go too close and certainly don't lean over the edge.

She tried to rescue the ball with a stick.

Unfortunately, a ball is a ball.

We can always replace the ball.

What we can't replace, is a person falling in and they're getting themselves into a really sticky situation.

So leave that, if the ball does go in, just leave it.

The water was dirty, with hidden rubbish and unknown depths.

As we saw in spotting the hazards in lesson one, we do not know what is underneath the water especially when it's murky and you can't see through it.

And the temperature of the water was freezing.

These were all potential hazards that could have been avoided had she thought through what she was up to.

So, the second question was if no one was around and she chanted for help, what should she have done? Well, we think back to lesson two and we think, well we've got to keep calm.

Try to float on our back.

Try to gain control of our breathing taking slow and deep breaths.

We tried to float, scull or possibly tread water and signal for help.

If possible then we can either using a sculling technique or a doggy paddle technique, we can swim safely to the edge or possibly to something that's floating.

And of course it's important to keep warm and retain our body heat.

So in the worst case scenario, we assume that help position.

Okay, now thinking about that story, here are some different scenarios.

There's one on this page, there's one on the next slide and the next slide, okay? There are three different scenarios.

You can have a go at all three or just one if you wish.

I'd like you to think of a plan that you would do following one of these scenarios.

So here's scenario one.

You're with another adult, you have a mobile phone, there was an emergency buoyancy aid 25 metres away.

You're wearing a scarf, okay? So that's Chris was shouting for help.

That's scenario number one.

Scenario two, Chris is shouting for help remember.

You're with two friends, you have two water bottles with you, there are adults sitting at a picnic table about 50 metres away.

And scenario three this one, you're with one friend, there is a large stick on the floor, a family with two adults are walking about 40 metres away from you.

So can you come up with a plan for one, two, three, or all three of those scenarios for me? Click pause to do that, and click resume once you've finished.

Have you got on thinking about those scenarios? What would you plan to do? I'm not sure about you, but in scenario one, I'm glad I've got a mobile phone.

Because I could ring 999 or 112 to ask for help.

Most importantly as a child, we need to get help from an adult, don't we? Also in this scenario, we had an adult with us.

So they would hopefully take charge.

There is an emergency buoyancy aid 25 metres away.

So possibly one of you would go to collect that while the other one did the shout and signal manoeuvre.

Or remember what we don't want to do is let the casualty get too close and to your personal space, because then you could end up in danger.

So remember to stay about a little bit distance from the casualty.

You are wearing a scarf, so if Chris wasn't too far away, there's an option of throwing the scarf, keeping hold of one end and pulling it back.

But because you're with an adult, I suggest the plan would be for the adult to have a go at that first.

If it was unsuccessful at this stage, hopefully the buoyancy aid new belt to pass to the casualty by throwing and hopefully help would be on its way from the emergency services Scenario two, what did you come up with this one? Well, being as you were with friends, I think you could split the task, couldn't you? You could say run.

One of you needs to get help.

The others, we need to help this casualty.

We could throw the water bottle to them to help them find something to grab on to that's floating.

We could do the shout and signal manoeuvre.

And we've got one person left to indicate to the adults who are having a picnic 50 metres away that we need help.

Hopefully between us we'd have a mobile phone to ask for that assistance, we should call 991, 112 to help get some help as quickly as possible for this scenario.

And option three, you're with one friend, there is a large stick on the floor, but a family with two adults are walking only 40 metres away.

What should we do? Well, my plan for one again, we really do need to get that adult help.

So it's important that our friend goes to get help from the two adults who are walking only 40 metres away by shouting and running after them.

Hopefully they'll have a mobile phone and then we can ask for the 999, 112 and get some assistance.

If we're feeling confident and the bank isn't to crumbling away, we could try to lie down flat on the floor, keeping ourselves safe but then use the stick to reach out and pull back our casualty.

The most important again is getting the adult help and then contacting 999 or 112.

Hopefully you came up with similar plans for all your three different scenarios.

And as I've been mentioning in those scenarios, we always need to follow the water safety code.

Whenever we near water stop and think.

Look for the dangers always read the signs.

But possibly at the beach on holiday something like that, we must stay together.

You should never go swimming in the sea on your own, always with family and friends and where there are lifeguards present.

And as I mentioned in that case of an emergency, it's 999 or 112.

That is our way of getting some assistance.

Shout for help from any adults and always ask the casualty or if it's yourself to float.

It's most important that if we do fall in, we protect that head, float, gain our breathing, and get ourselves safely back to the edge.

Here's the key question for you.

In all the scenarios, what should you have done? Okay, I think I've summed this one up.

Would you go for not panic option one, get help, jump in and rescue Chris or keep Chris afloat.

Which of those would you take? Which ones would you choose? I choose those three and not panic.

Got to get help, keep mentioning that one, from adults who are nearby and using our emergency services 999, 112.

And if possible we help keep Chris afloat, don't we? By throwing something that floats to him whether it's a lifebuoy or a buoyancy aid or something you've got actually like a football that would actually help keep afloat.

In today's lesson then, we have been developing our understanding of how to help others in difficulty in water.

We now have a better understanding of how to keep ourselves safe when helping others.

I hope you've had fun taking part in today's lesson.

And thank you for joining me with these water safety and self rescue lessons.

Goodbye.