Safety Scene working with promoters throughout the UK. Providing a stimulating environment and activities for children and young people to learn about personal safety.
Natural England’s purpose is to protect and improve England’s natural environment and encourage people to enjoy and get involved in their surroundings.
Our broad remit means that our reach extends across the country. We work with people such as farmers, town and country planners, researchers and scientists, and the general public on a range of schemes and initiatives.
Put simply, our aim is to create a better natural environment that covers all of our urban, country and coastal landscapes, along with all of the animals, plants and other organisms that live with us.
If you are a parent or teacher looking for places to visit in the UK Natural England’s website has a good search facility where you can refine and select the type of place that you would like your children to get to know and understand better.
Amenities
Toilets
Disabled Toilet
Hard Surface Parking
Shelter available
Surfaced Paths
Picnic Area
Easy Access
Teachers Pack
Farm Facts Leaflet
Car parking
Minibus parking
Coach parking
Habitats
Flower-rich grassland
Ponds
Wetlands
Hedgerows
Dry stone walls
Heathland
Woodlands
Intensive grassland
Arable
Heather Moorland
Additional resources include searches for local:
Farm visits – Educational Access sites provide opportunities for schools
National Nature Reserves
Local Nature Reserves
Nature on the Map – an interactive site that includes maps of Local and National Nature Reserves and Country Parks
As well as national resources i.e Visit a National Nature Reserve.
Bikeability is the Cycling Proficiency Test for the 21st century, designed to give the next generation the skills and confidence to ride their bikes on today’s roads. There are three Bikeability levels and children will be encouraged and inspired to achieve all three levels, recognising that there is always more to learn and to enjoy on a bike.
Has a number of online resources, lesson plan and activity sheets, games…
Kerbcraft is a practical child pedestrian training scheme, developed in Drumchapel, Glasgow, by Professor James Thomson at the University of Strathclyde. It is designed to teach pedestrian skills to 5 to 7 year olds, by means of practical road-side training rather than teaching in the classroom. It is built around teaching three skills:- choosing safe places and routes; crossing safely at parked cars and crossing safely near junctions. These skills are taught over the course of at least 12 roadside sessions. Children are taught in the road environment near their schools, in pairs or groups of three children, by trained volunteers.
This website provides information for existing Kerbcraft Co-ordinators; for those interested in setting up a new scheme in a local authority, school or other establishment, and for anyone interested in learning more about Kerbcraft.
Official Kerbcraft resources, funded by the Department for Transport, can be found in the Resources Section of this website, and materials developed by Kerbcraft schemes around the country can be found in the Example Materials Section. The Information Section provides a wealth of additional information and advice notes to help with the set up, funding and running of Kerbcraft. The Kerbcraft Pilot Section provides information and evaluation reports on the national pilot of Kerbcraft, which ran from 2002 to 2007.
The Kerbcraft website has the following available in the resources part of their website, especially useful for schools and teachers. Manual, support pack, video & DVD, as well as documents detailing Class List, Training Schedules, Child Volunteer Allocation List, Volunteer List, Co-ordinator Visit, Session Register, Incident Record…
Information sheets on Dangerous Substances with notes and activities for Key Stages 1, 2, 3&4 for teachers and suggested discussion points and pupil activities. Also includes a Risk Assessment sheet & a Symbols quiz
Find out more about Dangerous Substances @ http://www.rospa.com/safetyeducation/info/dangerous_substances.pdf
Grace Darling – The story Grace became famous for helping her father to rescue the survivors from the SS Forfarshire when the ship was driven by a storm onto Harcar rocks on 7th September 1838. Also includes Lesson plans & Interactive whiteboard activity
Safety at the beach – Beach risk safety game & beach volleyball game
Blue Peter – About the TV programme Blue Peter and its contribution to the RNLI
Games – Beach risk safety game, Train a lifeguard game, Build a lifeboat game, Decision making quiz, Boating safety game
The Teachers and Parents Section contains
Download lesson plans and whiteboard activities
Assessment by subject or activity
Fundraising
Orderable resources
Projects
Grace Darling
Literacy Activity (Wordplay)
The Volunteers section contains
Information on finding out about joining the RNLI team of Education volunteers who communicate with young people about sea and beach safety and the work of the RNLI. With resources for Education volunteers.
Find out more @ the Shorething website http://www.rnli.org.uk/shorething/default.aspx?ld=1
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