These five Hazards and Emergencies KS2 lessons aim to teach your children how to sensibly manage risks that they may take as they become more independent. The lessons look at identifying and minimising risks, feeling safe or unsafe and what to do in an emergency situation. The lessons cover when and how to phone 999 as well as looking at some basic first aid skills, including DRABC and the recovery position.

The first aid skills covered in these lessons are based on information given by the NHS and St Johns Ambulance. We recommend organising a first aid workshop with a professional trainer alongside these lessons so that children can gain practical, hands-on experience of first aid using the appropriate equipment.

These lessons each come with a detailed lesson plan, PDF lesson slides, differentiated activity ideas and printable supporting resources.

A Knowledge Organiser is available to support the learning in this scheme. It is included in the Complete Series download or can be purchased individually.

You might also want to take a look at the other PSHE schemes in our Decision Making and Risk strand.

Assessing and Minimizing Risks

This lesson turns your class into mini risk assessors. They are challenged to look at a hypothetical situation and think about any hazards and risks that they might experience. they then think about how these risks could be minimised in order to keep themselves and others safe.

The lesson aims for children to become more independent when assessing risks. As they gain independence in their lives, this is a good skill to practise and share with others to see how we might approach a situation in different ways.

In this complete lesson, you receive a detailed lesson plan, differentiated activity ideas, PDF lesson slides and printable supporting resources for the independent activities.

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Feeling Unsafe

This lesson aims to give your class the opportunity to reflect on what happens to their body when they begin to feel unsafe or uncomfortable with a situation, and how to react. By the end of the lesson, they should recognise unsafe feelings and have some strategies of what they can do to help themselves and others feel safe.

The children are given different situations to privately reflect on if they would feel safe, unsafe or possibly unsure. They can then practise setting some boundaries and strategies for each situation, giving them a bank of resources to rely on if they need.

This Year 4 Feeling Unsafe lesson comes with a detailed lesson plan, PDF lesson slides, differentiated activity ideas and all the printable resources you'll need to support your class in their independent activity.

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Calling 999

The focus of this lesson is to discuss and give examples of what happens when we need to call 999 in an emergency. The children will explore which services can be contacted this way and how they can help us in different kinds of emergencies. They will have the opportunity to discuss the kinds of answers and information they will need to give when on the phone to the 999 operator as well as role playing this using different situations.

The children will be asked to determine if a situation is a 999 emergency or if it can be handled in a different way. They will then think about what the operator will ask them and how they might respond.

This lesson comes with a detailed lesson plan, differentiated activity ideas as well as PDF slides and printable supporting resources.

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Emergency First Aid

This lesson looks at the first aid that can be used in an emergency situation. The children will look at the acronym DR ABC as well as the recovery position, heavy bleeding, choking and head injuries.

We suggest that this lesson is used alongside a visit from a first aid trainer who can provide the specialist equipment and dummies for the children to practise the essential first aid skills. *The information in this lesson is correct at the time of writing using information from the NHS or St John Ambulance websites. We undertake regular checks of our resources to ensure that the most up-to-date information is provided.

The lesson contains a lesson plan PDF lesson slides as well as an alternative activity idea and printable supporting resources.

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Basic First Aid

This lesson focuses on the children learning about the first aid we can use to treat minor injuries using a first aid kit. They will look at cuts, grazes, minor bleeding, sprains, broken bones, burns, nose bleeds, head bumps and fainting. This lesson aims to give your class an opportunity to apply practical skills and explore a first aid kit to become familiar with the equipment.

*The information in this lesson is correct at the time of writing using information from the NHS or St John Ambulance websites. We undertake regular checks of our resources to ensure that the most up-to-date information is provided.

This final lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, PDF lesson slides and printable resources to accompany the differentiated activity ideas.

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This Year 4 PSHE Knowledge Organiser has been created to complement our PSHE Decision Making and Risk strand. It is designed to support your children’s understanding of key vocabulary linked to this scheme of work. A thinking question and a big idea have been included to encourage your children to think deeply about this topic.

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