Water safety plays an important part in any project on water. Here you will find ideas and activities to support and develop water safety education through lesson ideas and fun water safety games.
Please see below for our breakdown of the topic map and links to the resources.
No project on water would be the same without including a section on the sea and water safety. Using the RNLI Shorething website you will find information on:
As well as games to play and inform, there are a wealth of useful lesson plans and whiteboard activities which are easily downloadable, as well as a range of appropriate orderable resources to develop water safety education.
How safe are you? Safety at the beach Boating safety tips
Beach risk game Decision making quiz Boating safety game
Download water safety resources and lesson plans
Beach risk Maths Ma3 Shape, space & measures 3a; ICT 5b. Aim: To raise the children’s awareness of safety at the beach, recognising dangers & understanding how to deal with them. Decision making KS2 & KS3 Literacy; Citizenship KS2 Speaking & listening 4a, 4c; Citizenship 2f. KS3 Speaking & listening 4a, 4b; Citizenship 2b, 3a. Aim: to encourage pupils to consider different choices and make decisions based on information given. Build a Lifeboat KS2 Sc 3 1a Aim: To investigate a range of materials in relation for use in the making of a boat.
Beach risk English 3 1b ICT 3b Aim: To raise pupil’s awareness of safety at the beach. Objective: To design a beach safety leaflet for 7-11 year olds. Floating Science (yr 7) unit 7k – forces & their effects; section 2a- Why do things float?
Rip current beach safety KS2, KS3 Aim: to have some understanding of sea safety & rip currents. Spot the dangers KS2, Citizenship 3f; KS3 PSHE 2f, 2g Aim: To make informed decisions about safe and unsafe activities at the beach.
SAFE Poster Spot the dangers poster
Line drawings Atlantic - rescue line drawing Severn - drawing of the RNLI’s largest lifeboat Trent - line drawing.
Posters Spot the dangers - A beach safety poster that can be used with a group to discuss dangers at the beach. SAFE - A poster to display the key sea safety messages. Storm Force
Stay Safe magazine
All Aboard + magazine (Citizenship resource for 7 –11 yr olds). Get on board + magazine (Citizenship resource for 11 –14 yr olds).