Life skills
Everyday First Aid Basics
Practical confidence: what to do for a small cut, how to make a call for help, and what lives in the family first aid kit.
Ages
9-11, 11-14
Level
Upper KS2, KS3
Subject
Life Skills
Duration
45 min
What you'll need
- First aid kit
- Bandages to practise with
What the learner will explore
- Staying calm
- Basic first aid
- Asking for help
How to do it
- 1
Look through your first aid kit together.
- 2
Practise cleaning and covering a graze.
- 3
Rehearse a 999 call: what would you say?
- 4
Write the important numbers somewhere visible.
Make it easier
Focus on 'find an adult and say what happened'.
Make it harder
Learn the recovery position and practise it.
Try it differently
Take a proper family first aid course.
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