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Everyday First Aid Basics

A companion sheet — print it, scribble on it, keep it or recycle it

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What we're doing

Grazes, bumps, phoning for help — calmly practised in advance.

  • About 45 minutes
  • Life Skills
  • Life Skills

Gather these

  • First aid kit
  • Bandages to practise with

Step by step

  • Look through your first aid kit together.
  • Practise cleaning and covering a graze.
  • Rehearse a 999 call: what would you say?
  • Write the important numbers somewhere visible.

Worth talking about

Staying calm
Basic first aid
Asking for help
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Record what happened

There's no wrong way to fill this in

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What we did

Write, list or draw — whatever suits today.

Skills we touched on

SkillHow it showed up

Reflect together

What surprised you about everyday first aid basics?
What was the easiest part? What was the fiddliest?
What would you change if you did it again tomorrow?
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Take it further

Three doors out of the same activity

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If it felt tricky

Focus on 'find an adult and say what happened'.

If it felt easy

Learn the recovery position and practise it.

If you'd rather do it differently

Take a proper family first aid course.

Next time, we could

  • Try it outdoors
  • Invite a friend or sibling
  • Stretch it over a whole week

Our own ideas