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Youth Activity Pack

Education Learning to be safe at sea

Thank you so much for deciding to involve the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in your youth group work. We hope that you will enjoy being involved with the charity that saves lives at sea.


This Youth activity pack contains lots of ideas to help you organise fun evenings while showing young people how to play an active role in their community just as you do as leaders.

In this booklet you will find ideas sorted into four different sections:

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rEAdY fOr ActIOn

Each section has a front sheet of bullet point ideas and then three activity sheets with more detailed ideas and any necessary resources. The detailed activity sheets are tasks that are active, creative or group work orientated.

The booklet is designed to be very versatile and used in any way you choose. The suggested ideas can be related to the work of the charity and in particular our volunteer crews.

If you would like to work towards our RNLI Young Supporter badge then we ask that you complete at least one activity from each of the different sections. We are particularly keen that all young people learn to stay safe on or near water so we hope you will pay particular attention to this section.

On the back page is a form that you can photocopy to order your badges.

Our website rnli.org.uk/shorething has lots of useful information that will help you to plan your sessions.

Have fun completing your chosen activities and being involved with our lifesaving charity.

StAY SAfE Ideas Active: Rescue challenge Groupwork: Beach safety adverts Creative: Design an outfit

HElPIng OtHErS Ideas Active: Call to action Groupwork: A helping hand Creative: Making medals

WOrkIng tOgEtHEr Ideas Active: Channel crossing Groupwork: Freeze frame beach scene 1 and 2 Creative: Build a lifeboat

rEAdY fOr ActIOn Ideas Active: Be alert Groupwork: Rescue team challenge Creative: Food for energy

Youth Activity Pack In this booklet you will find:

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The RNLI will be there to help if young people do get in trouble – but we would rather they weren’t in trouble in the first place. This section aims to teach your group how they can keep themselves safe, using the same skills that lifeboat crew and lifeguards do to assess risk and save others. Many incidents in water are preventable - thank you for your help in stopping them!

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Ideas: Rescue challenge

Beach safety adverts see enclosed activity sheets

Design an outfit

Prepare a basic first aid kit – discuss what to include, checking thinks are in date etc.

Design safety posters or banners

Risk assessment – work with the group to discuss the risks they may face on a particular visit or in an area (e.g. a local beach or inland waterway) and how they can avoid them

Mix ‘n’ match – label half the group with a hazard (e.g. sun, getting lost) and the other half with solutions (e.g. sun cream, tell an adult where you’re going) and ask them to find their partner

Big sick, little sick – discuss an emergency first aid scenario and decide who the group would tend to first using this simple classification system used by RNLI crews

Spot the dangers – use our Spot the Dangers image to identify risks at the beach and discuss how to stay safe

999 role play – use role play to explore making a call in an emergency situation and highlight the key information they would need to know

Design a beach sign for your local beach – discuss the dangers in the area and design an appropriate sign. An example sign can be downloaded from the ‘Other downloads’ section of Shorething

Design and test a waterproof – choose appropriate materials to make a waterproof shelter or outfit and test with buckets of water!

Work towards a first aid certificate

Peer education – take your group to a younger counterpart and teach them how to stay safe

Learn how to sail, canoe or a similar water sport

Design a leaflet on how to prepare for a day out at the beach and what to take with you or a beach safety guide with rules to follow

Visit a local Lifeboat station, lifeguard unit or coastguard unit

Beach flags – design and make replica beach flags

Safety codes – using the SAFE message, ask each person to design their own code giving an example to illustrate each point.

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Active: rEScuE cHAllEngE

What you will need:

apparatus for throwing games (e.g. bean bags, small balls etc)

targets (could be cones, goals or you could make your own).

What to do:

Ask the group if they can think of things that can be used to help people if they are in trouble in water. What kinds of Public Rescue Equipment (PRE) have they seen by water? Discuss how items like liferings and lifelines can be used to help people. Ensure that the group understands these should only be used in an emergency and the life-threatening effects of vandalism.

For the group to practise their throwing skills in case of an emergency, set up a throwing challenge in teams. Each team must rescue as many people as they can in the time allowed by accurately throwing an item at a target. When the time is up the team who has rescued the most people wins.

Possible follow-up ideas:

Ask the group to look out for any rescue equipment in your area or when they are near water in the future and talk about these at a later date.

Encourage the group to think about other items they could use to help someone if the rescue equipment was missing (eg empty plastic bottles, a rope etc) – if possible test these out to see which has the most buoyancy.

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Groupwork: BEAcH SAfEtY AdvErtS

What you will need:

sea safety materials (additional copies can be ordered from your local Education Manager)

paper and pens

additional craft materials for making posters if required.

What to do:

Discuss how people can stay safe when they are at the beach. Use RNLI Beach safety guides to help pick out important safety messages. Discuss which they think would be the most important and how they could persuade people to follow them.

Divide into groups and ask each group to devise a Summer advert, which will communicate key beach safety rules. They can choose their own format (eg radio, television, poster).

Ask each group to present their advert and discuss together how successful each advert was in getting the safety message across.


Organise a quiz in a subsequent session to see how many of the safety rules your group can remember.

If possible, display any physical adverts in a public place so that the beach safety messages can be passed on in your community.

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What you will need:

a range of craft materials including plastics, cotton wool and various materials

plain paper

scissors and glue.

What to do:

Explain to the group that lifeboat crew and lifeguards need specially designed clothing to ensure that they are kept safe, dry and warm while they are rescuing other people and that the materials chosen to make these have to be carefully thought about.

Divide into groups and ask each group to make a model outfit for a different scenario. One group can make an outfit for someone for a hot day on the beach, another for a hike on a rainy day, someone going out on a boat and so on.

Each group draws the outline of a person, and then chooses appropriate materials to make them an outfit.

When all the groups have finished, ask them to present their outfit and to explain why they have chosen each material to use.


For older groups, you draw round a person on wallpaper and make a life-size outfit, or create real clothes.

If available, include reflective materials and discuss when these would be important to include.

HElPIng OtHErSThe RNLI is largely a volunteer organisation. Many thousands of people freely give their time, skill and commitment so that the RNLI can achieve its purpose of saving lives at sea.

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Ideas: Call to action

A helping hand see enclosed activity sheets

Making medals

Community webs – create a spider diagram of all the people in your community, highlighting those who help other people

Community action – plan projects that your group can carry out in the community to help other people

Improving the local environment – plan some activities that you can do that will improve the environment of your community eg planting bulbs

Make a lifeboats collecting box – a template is enclosed

SOS – join our biggest fundraising day on the last Friday in January, visit rnli.org.uk/sos to find out more. One simple way to join in is to order some of our jam jar labels for each member of your group to take home and fill in the run up to RNLI SOS day

Organise a fundraising event with your group, for example filling sweet tubes with coins, offering a car washing service, pack bags at your local supermarket or make a large lifeboat out of coins on the floor of your meeting place

Interview people in the community who volunteer to find out what motivates them and how they became part of their organisation

Organise a debate – discuss topics such as How to withstand peer pressure, Making good decisions or What is bravery/stupidity?

Prepare a consequence activity – if you do … then what happens?

Hold an auction of ‘help’ promises

Hold an at home bob a job week – but they help without pay then build a wall diary of helping

Create a ‘helping others’ award and present it to someone in the community

Meet a crew member and a lifeguard on rnli.org.uk/shorething

Give time to a specific project – look at the Vinspire project on vinspire.com

Start a Duke of Edinburgh or President’s award and complete the service section for the RNLI, look at intaward.org

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What you will need:

outlines of red and white liferings

card

scissors

glue

pens

hole punch

wool/string

What to do:

Discuss what sort of things they do to help people, whether it is at home, school etc.

Put their name at the centre of a lifering (could do more than one)

Colour alternate sections of the ring in red

In each white section write what they have done to help over the past week

Paste on card, cut out, punch a hole in the top, attach a piece of wool/string and tie onto a wool/string washing line in the meeting place.


By helping they have thrown out a lifeline to someone. As a group see if there is anything that your meeting place needs doing to make it nicer.

Extend this into helping as a group in the community eg plant some bulbs, see if a local group/old peoples home needs some help. (Putting a lifering around the community.)

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What you will need:

image of rescue

pens and paper (optional)

What to do:

Look at the poster in groups.– Who is in trouble and what may have happened to him? – What services are working together to help the boy? – What skills and qualities do they need in order to work together well?

Act out the rescue shown on the poster or draw a cartoon version. You could add speech/thought/action bubbles to the picture. Alternatively you could write a poem, story or radio play about the rescue depicted.


Helping others is what charities and volunteering is all about - doing something useful without expecting a reward. The group could be challenged to find out about other charities and how they help people.

Group could think of ways to give others a helping hand or cut out pictures and stories from the newspaper that relate to helping others.

Group could work out what they could do if they saw the following:– someone struggling with heavy shopping– a child sitting alone on a bench in the park– someone in the water shouting for help.

How could they help without putting themselves at risk? How could a group of people working together help the person even more?

Encourage your group to look on the RNLI website and find out about a recent rescue at your nearest lifeboat station or lifeguard unit.

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What you will need:

craft materials – eg ribbon, tin foil, unwanted/free cds, wooden bases (for trophies), card/paper for certificates

What to do:

Discuss with your group who they can think of in their community who helps other people (eg crossing guards, doctors, carers, meals on wheels etc). Draw up a list together of these people, identifying which of them are volunteers.

Ask each member of the group to choose one person from the list who they would like to make a medal (or trophy or certificate depending on the resources available) for to thank them for their hard work in the community.

Each person designs their award and decides on any wording they will include and what they will say when they present it.

Using the available craft materials each person makes their award and then takes it home to present to the chosen person.


Hold a presentation evening where you can invite all of the awardees along to receive their medals and encourage each member of the group to say a few words explaining why they have chosen to give them an award.

Invite a speaker in to talk to your group about the work they do in the community – eg a special constable, retained firemen, crossing guards, lifeboat crew, lifeguards, school helpers or a leader of another youth group.

Lifeboat crew members need to work together to carry out their rescues. This section explores how the young people in your groups can learn these key team work skills.

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Ideas: Channel crossing

Freeze frame beach scene

Build a lifeboat

Learn the semaphore code and send messages between groups

Use the international code sign flags to create words and messages

Build a boat using materials or people. Use movement to show the boat moving from side to side in big seas etc.

Play trust games

Organise a treasure hunt or scavenger hunt

Write a play about a lifeboat rescue

Plan a group activity to raise funds

Prepare a radio broadcast about a rescue

Play a blindfold knot game with one person giving instructions and the other tying the knot

Plan a visit to a local lifeboat station, lifeguard unit or other place of interest

Act out a lifeboat or lifeguard rescue

Write and perform a song/poem about working together

Visit a local emergency service, for example, the fire service. Interview people about how they work together well

Create a mock website about your group or another subject.

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What you will need:

masking tape or rope

30cm2 cardboard squares (or standard sheets of A4 paper)

What to do:

Create an imaginary channel with ropes or masking tape

Make it wide enough to be a challenge

Distribute squares to half the group

The aim is to get the whole group safely across the channel

Rules of the game:

They cannot touch the water and must use ‘rafts’ (squares)

If they touch the water, participants will lose a leg to sharks and must complete the crossing on one foot

Squares must be in contact with a human at all times or it will be swept away (removed)

Cardboard squares can only move forward

No one can complete the crossing until everyone has left the starting bank.


Find out what happens on a shout. How do people work together to save lives at sea?

Think of 3 important ways to work together successfully. Decide on a teamwork challenge in the community that would use all these ideas.

Write some rules for river safety.

Use junk modeling to create seascapes lifeboat stations etc.



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What you will need:

props relating to the beach if available eg inflatable, sun cream, sunhat, rope, bucket and spade etc

What to do:

Ask a small group of children (3-4) to act out a scenario using the theme A day on the beach you could use the cue cards for ideas or invite the children to come up with their own.

Ask another two children to be lifeguards.

Once the scene has developed, ask the children to freeze.

The lifeguards can now advise how to make their chosen activity safer. A few hints are given on the cards.

The children acting out the scene use this advice to show how to enjoy the beach safely. They could also show two different endings for their role-play. One where they were acting safely and another where they were acting dangerously.


Produce cartoons with differing ending depending on whether safety advice has been listened to.

Show your drama piece to a younger group of children. You could use toys and dolls to act it out for a younger group.

Use action and consequence drama to explore other dangers or situations eg inland waterways.

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Swimming in the sea

Using an inflatable

Walking on the cliffs

Getting ready to go to the beach

Rockpooling A day out in a boat

Going fishing TombstoningA day out by the sea



Groupwork:frEEzE-frAME BEAcH ScEnE Freeze frame hints for advisors:

Swimming in the sea

Swim on a lifeguarded beach

Swim between the red and yellow flags

Always go with a friend or adult

Stay in your depth

Using an inflatable

Safer to use it on the beach

Needs adult supervision

Tie a rope to it and make sure an adult is holding the other end

Never use an inflatable when the wind is blowing away from

the shore

Playing on the cliffs

Stay well away from the edge

Do not climb up or down (Go to a climbing wall

to learn to climb)

It is safer to play on the beach

Getting ready to go to the beach

Remember to pack your sunhat and sunscreen

Choose a beach with a lifeguard

Check the weather and tides

Rockpooling

Check the weather and tides

Always wear shoes

Make sure adults are with you or know where you are

A trip out in a boat

Get a weather forecast

Wear a lifejacket

Tell others where you are going

Learn about your activity before setting out

Make sure you have a way of calling for help

Going fishing

Check the tides

Tell people where you are going

Go with a friend or adult

Tombstoning

It is much safer to jump and dive in a swimming pool

Do not jump or dive in water unless you know the depth or

what is under the water

A day out by the sea

Go to a lifeguarded beach as you are 500 times safer

Pack things to protect you from the sun

Check the weather forecast

Know what to do if you get lost

Creative:BuIld A lIfEBOAt What you will need:

squeezy bottles

plasticine

tape/string

straws

other suitable materials

a large bowl or similar for testing

What to do:

Use the materials given to build and test a lifeboat that is unsinkable and self-righting.

Teams of 2-4 would work well.


Investigate ways of providing propulsion for your lifeboat.

Draw a timeline showing lifeboats over time.

Design your own rescue vehicle for land air or sea.

Test other materials for floating/sinking. How can you transform a material that sinks to one that floats?

Design a lifeboat collecting box (see net on next page).

Junk modeling of lifeboats, lifeboat stations and beach scenes.

Make a shoe box rescue theatre by downloading the instructions from Shorething on rnli.org.uk/shoebox.



How to assemble:

• Photocopy the template (found on the next page)

by 140% to increase size. Use card if possible.

• Illustrate the plain template as you wish

(you can use the image above as inspiration)

• Cut out template and money slot.

• Fold/score on all lines.

• Create a box shape with flaps 1,2,3 and 4 by

sticking flaps 3 to flaps 2. Place double-

sided tape on flaps 1 and 4 and fold around the

rest of the template to seal the collection box.

• Stick the end of the boats together to create

the boat hull.

Design a lifeboat collection box:

1: Photocopy 2: Illustrate 3: Cut out template 4: Fold/score lines 5: Apply double- sided tape

6: Stick flaps together 7: Fold around main hull hape

8: Ensure box is sturdy 9: Stick ends to create hull shape

10: Use your collection box to raise funds

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It is important that our crew members and lifeguards attend training and prepare themselves for the hard work of being out on a shout.

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Ideas: Be alert

Rescue team challenge see enclosed activity sheets

Food for energy

Active problem solving ideas – collect together a box of props and ask the question what would you take to sea or which things are fit for purpose?

Set up a mock interview situation and get the person being interviewed to say how they prepare for a given task, if your group meets near a lifeboat station interview a crew member.

How do they prepare for things in their lives – a weekend camping, a forthcoming exam etc.

Investigate local opportunities to become a lifeguard.

Practise throwing a lifeline accurately – could be improvised with getting a ball accurately into a bucket.

Do some compass related activities – make a paper plate compass, play compass-related games such as treasure hunt or have a go at orienteering

Play boat-related games eg port or starboard

Get fit by using a DVD, complete some simple circuit training, visit a local gym or invite a fitness instructor to run an evening for you.

Active:BE AlErt What you will need:

(Numbers of each of the above items that you will need will depend on how you organise the evening)

What to do:

Discuss being prepared for a task in areas such as concentration, dexterity, strength, stamina, speed and alertness.

There are 3 tasks to perform and each person can be timed to see how long it takes to do each task.1. Dress in kit (trousers, jacket, hat, wellies and gloves) and record the time to do this. 2. Practise tying a bowline then complete under timed conditions. 3. Bounce a ball 10x and time how long it takes – the exercise must be restarted if they lose control but

keep the stop watch running.

The results could then be recorded in a table just as crew members record their training at the lifeboat station.

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Total:

Time:

Dress in kitTie a bowlineBounce a ball 10x


Adjust the tasks to suit the group.

Add in more tasks.

Set each other different tasks to do.

Try completing the tasks with the wrong hand eg left if they use right.

Show a film clip or read a newspaper article and then ask questions to see how well they have watched/listened.

Try a tug of war to test strength.

Try completing tasks blindfolded.

stopwatch

trousers (waterproof if possible)

jacket (waterproof if possible)

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gloves

length of rope

picture of bowline knot

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item to represent the boat – a gym mat, old blanket, piece of plastic sheet, etc.

props that have to be transported on the boat without going in the water – balls, sheets of newspaper, skipping ropes, etc. (Your choice of items will make the challenge either easier or harder.)

provided you have enough equipment, the teams can complete the challenge together like a race. If not, then use one set of equipment and time each team in turn.

What to do:

Teams have to work together to get their boat (eg mat) and all its equipment from ‘the lifeboat station’ at one end of the hall, playground, field etc to the other to rescue someone/thing (person, teddy bear etc).

Team members must not put their feet on the ground. If they do, you can either add on penalty points (eg 10 seconds) or make the team start again. You can also add penalty points for any item on the boat that roles away and doesn’t make it safely to the destination.

As long as their feet don’t touch the ground, teams can use items to stand on as they move the boat and should either hold onto the items from the boat or risk moving it with the items still onboard.

Once they have arrived at the end then their challenge is complete. The time taken plus any penalty points will give them a total time.

Congratulate and reward the fastest team!

If time allows they can transport the boat and casualty back to ‘the lifeboat station’ and their challenge is complete.


Challenge another local group to the task.

Try other fitness challenges.

Create a lifeboat rescue board game.

Have a go at the crew training challenge on the RNLI website at rnlicrewgame.org.

Creative:fOOd fOr EnErgY What you will need:

paper plates glue scissors

pictures of food from magazines, recipe cards etc.

information on foods – food groups, energy content, healthy eating etc.

What to do:

Discuss food groups, what is healthy; which foods supply us with lots of energy etc.

Explain that crew members are often out at sea for long periods and the work is demanding so they must have a healthy diet and have lots of energy. Relate this to times when the group might need to have lots of energy.

Use the magazines etc. to cut out healthy foods with high energy levels to make a suitable meal for a crew member and stick on the paper plate.


Get a visitor to talk to the group about healthy eating, exercise etc.

Collect food wrappers and make a collage of suitable foods to give you energy and keep you healthy or to show suitable food versus unsuitable food.

Ready, steady, cook – make a healthy/high-energy plate of food for a crew member/lifeguard.

Food to go – pack up a healthy/high-energy lunch box for a crew member/lifeguard.


Scotland Education ManagerRNLI ScotlandUnit 3 Ruthvenfield GroveInveralmond Industrial EstatePerth PH1 3GL

E: [email protected]: 01783 642999

Eastern Education ManagerRNLI EasternMagdalen RoadHadleigh, IpswichSuffolk IP7 5AD


greater londonEducation ManagerRNLI LondonEducation Manager124-126 Webber Street London SE1 0QL

E: [email protected]: 0207 620 7400

South East Education ManagerRNLI South EastKennet House, River WayUckfieldSussex TN22 1SL


South West Education ManagerRNLI South WestUnit A, Longacre SaltashCornwall PL12 6LZ


Wales and the West Education ManagerRNLI WestUnit 8, Quartz Point Business ParkStonebridge Road, SolihullWest Midlands B46 3JL


north Education ManagerRNLI North18 Half Edge LaneEccles, ManchesterLancashire M30 9GJ


Ireland Education ManagerRNLI IrelandAirsideSwords Co. Dublin

E: [email protected]: (RoI) 00 353 1 8951800

Contact your Education Manager at the address below:


If you would like an additional Youth activity pack and/or badges please photocopy this form and return with your payment to:rnlI HeadquartersRoyal National Lifeboat InstitutionWest Quay RoadPooleDorsetBH15 1HZ


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