First Aid for Life specialises in teaching first aid for schools and clubs and empowering young people with the skills to help in an emergency. We routinely work with schools, youth groups, guides, scouts and associated groups to train young people to keep each other safe and to understand how to help if faced with a medical emergency.
In addition to our practical courses, we have online first aid training www.onlinefirstaid.com where people can learn vital skills and extend their first aid knowledge on their smart phones and mobile devices.
How First Aid can augment the curriculum
Early Years Foundation Stage
Early learning goals:
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Communication, language and literacy
- Problem solving
- Physical development.
Key stage 1
PSHE/Citizenship
- 3a – How to make simple choices that improve health and wellbeing
- 3b – To maintain personal hygiene
- 3c – How some diseases spread and can be controlled
- 3e – The names of the main parts of the body
- 3f – All household products, including medicines, can be harmful if not used properly
- 3g – Rules for, and ways of, keeping safe, including basic road safety, and about people who can help them to stay safe.
Science
- Health and safety.
Key stage 2
PSHE/Citizenship
- 3b – That bacteria and viruses can affect health and that following simple, safe routines can reduce their spread
- 3d – Which commonly available substances and drugs are legal and illegal, their effects and risks
- 3e – Recognising risks in different situations and deciding how to behave responsibly, including sensible road use, and judging what kind of physical contact is acceptable or unacceptable
- 3g – School rules about health and safety, basic emergency aid procedures and where to get help.
Science
- Sc2 2c – Circulation: the heart acts as a pump to circulate the blood through vessels around the body, including through the lungs
- Sc2 2e – Movement: humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles to support and protect their bodies and help them to move
- Sc2 2g – Health: the effects on the human body of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, and how these relate to personal health
- Health and safety: recognising that there are hazards in living things, materials and physical processes. Assessing risks and taking action to reduce risks to themselves and others.
Physical Education
- 4d – Why wearing appropriate clothing and being hygienic is good for their health and safety.
Key stage 3
PSHE: Personal wellbeing
- 3g – Ways of recognising and reducing risk, minimising harm and getting help in emergency and risky situations
- 3h – Knowledge of basic first aid.
Science
- 2.1b – Practical and enquiry skills: assessing risk and working safely in the laboratory, field and workplace
- 3.3a – Organisms, behaviour and health: conception, growth, development, behaviour and health can be affected by diet, drugs and disease.
Physical education
- 2.2d – Recognising hazards and making decisions about how to control any risks to themselves and others.
Key stage 4
PSHE: Personal wellbeing
- 2.2a – Using knowledge and understanding to make informed choices about safety, health and wellbeing, evaluating personal choices and making changes if necessary
- 2.2c – Assessing and managing risk in personal choices and situations, minimising harm in risky situations and demonstrating how to help others to do so
- 3e – Where and how to obtain health information: how to recognise and follow health and safety procedures; ways of reducing risk and minimising harm in risky situations; how to find sources of emergency help; how to use basic and emergency first aid.
Physical Education
- 2.2d – Organising and managing the environment they are working in to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of themselves and others.
Science
- 5e – Organisms and Health: human health is affected by a range of environmental and inherited factors, by the use and misuse of drugs and by medical treatments.
Edexcel Level 2 BTEC First Certificate and Edexcel Level 2 BTEC First Diplomas in Sport
Unit 2 – Health, safety and injury in sport
Learning outcomes
- Know the different types of injuries and illness associated with sports participation
- Able to deal with injuries and illnesses associated with sports participation.
Grading criteria
- P3 – describe four different types of injuries associated with sports participation and their underlying causes
- M4 – deal with casualties suffering from three different injuries and/or illnesses.
Level 2 Award in Community Sports Leadership
In order to complete the Level 2 Award in Community Sports Leadership, participants must gain a first aid certificate.
This should include:
- Understanding the role of the first aider
- Communicating effectively and managing an incident
- Looking after yourself and the casualty
- Assessing the situation and circumstances in order to act safely, promptly and effectively in an emergency
- Administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) promptly and effectively
- Administering first aid safely, promptly and effectively to a casualty who:
- is choking
- is bleeding
- is in shock.
- Administering first aid safely, promptly and effectively to an unconscious casualty
- Providing appropriate first aid for minor injuries
- Reporting accidents in the appropriate manner.
First Aid is also a vital skill for young people undertaking their Duke of Edinburgh Awards, working towards Sports Leadership and coaching qualifications and for babysitting.
It is also a life-saving skill to have as young people begin to experiment with alcohol and stretch boundaries – teenagers are definitely safer and more aware of potential risks, once they have joined one of our courses.
The courses are practical, engaging and fun and prove extremely popular.
Hello,
I teach in a Gateshead school; Joseph Swan Academy and have a group of 60 students, aged 16 to 18, that want to learn the basics of first aid.
Do you offer first aid courses for young adults in education? Could you provide me with any extra information please if so?
Best regards,
Rebecca
Dear Rebecca, I have sent you a separate email, delighted to help. Best wishes Emma
Hi Emma,
My son who will be 16 in January would like to learn first aid as part of his DoE training. there might be other kids in his school interested in doing it. could you let me know how big a group would need to be for you to put on a course, how long it would run for and how much it would cost please.
many thanks
Dear Valerie, delighted to help. I will send you a separate email. We have practical and online courses suitable for the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
Dear Emma, i am very happy to note here that you offer courses for the DofE – my daughter will soon start at silver level. i would be grateful for all details by email, thank you. Kind regards, Mathilde
Dear Mathilde, delighted to send information through to you. Best wishes Emma
I wouldbe interested in organising a private First Aid course for a group of 12 year old. Could you let me know if this is something you can do and if so what would be the format, content and cost please? Thsnk you.
Dear Juliette
I will send you an email. We would be delighted to run a tailored course for a group of 12 Year olds.
Very best wishes
Emma
Hi my niece is 14 and wants to learn first aid unsure if anybody in the school would want to enroll could you email me to see of how big a group,price and length of course would be in sheffield
Dear Rebecca
Thank you for your message, I will send you an email. Best wishes Emma
I would also like to know about details for such course for a 15 year old
Hi, my son is 11 and is interested in learning first aid. Can you please send me details, length of course and size of group needed to run one.
Kind regards
Dear Kafayat,
Thank you for your message. We will send through all the booking information direct to your email address and would love to run a first aid training for your son and his friends. We also have scheduled courses in London and our next teenage course is on WEdnesday 14th February and is suitable for children from 8 upwards.
Best wishes
Emma
I am interested in working as a first aid instructor with you,I am trained and at present working as a nurse.
Hi
We are looking for first aiders to come and deliver first aid to groups of Year 7 pupils, roughly 180 in groups of 25.
Thank you very much for your enquiry. Please let us know if you have any specific dates? Please could you email your enquiry through to emma@firstaidforlife.org.uk and we will be able to send you through more details. Best wishes Emma
Hi,
I would like to offer a course to a group of 15 students between the ages of 13 and 16. Would you be able to provide this and at what cost?
Many thanks,
Tim
Hi, I’m a Head teacher in Derby and I’m looking to run a course for my year 3 class, over at least 1 term. Could I enquire if this would be possible please?
Hi,
I am interested in First Aid training for the Y5/Y6 children at my school. Could I please have some more information in regards to costs?
Many Thanks,
Amy Rogers
Dear Amy, thank you for your message. We will email you with all the information. Very best wishes Emma
Hi
We are a small Primary school in Leeds looking to train all our children with basic life saving skills do you offer a course and what would the cost be?
My colleagues and I are interested in provided First aid training for our Year 6 pupils – please, forward any relevant details on the courses that might be appropriate for this age group.
Many thanks,
Charlotte
Please how can I get first aid lessons for the children in my church?
Please email emma@firstaidforlife.org.uk and we can come and run tailored first aid training for you at your church.