www.redcross.org.uk
 

The British Red Cross helps people in crisis whoever and wherever they are.

At the heart of the British Red Cross’ education programme is helping young people learn about and understand the world, and our shared humanity. Our aim is to encourage young people to respond to those in crisis – we call this humanitarian action – in order to save lives and reduce suffering.

We offer a range of innovative packages designed to support teachers in the classroom. Our products have a direct relevance across a number of school subjects and link into the citizenship, personal, social and health curricula.

We want to make life easier for teachers. All our teaching materials are easy to use and equip educators with the knowledge and confidence to deliver them.

Build a generation of life-savers – teach first aid

Imagine how many lives could be saved if everyone learnt first aid at school.

First aid is a basic life skill that every young person can learn. It is also now something every teacher can teach.

Our Life. Live it. First Aid Education Kit enables you to teach first aid in your school. It does not require any previous first aid experience. The kit is a fun and easy way to help students learn the basics and has been produced as part of the Award winning Life. Live it. campaign to inspire young people to learn first aid.

The kit is ideal for Key Stage 3 PHSE/ PSE, however it can easily be adapted for other age groups and in subjects including Science, Physical Education and Design and Technology. The kit includes an interactive CD ROM, packed with resources including Power Point lessons, video and audio clips and an interactive quiz, as well as practical materials to enable students to practice.

Try it for yourself and download our free sample first aid basics lessons-

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

“The lesson plans and quizzes are great, especially for people who have not delivered any first aid education before” (Secondary teacher)

“The videos highlighting how teachers should introduce it with a class are particularly impressive” (PE teacher)

“The surprising factor with the kit is the (low) price... there can be no question that this piece of kit is worth every penny” (TEEM evaluation)

Citizenship teaching

            

Looking for imaginative teaching tools that are simple to use? You'll find them at our education website. Free resources, ideal for citizenship teaching, include a regular news bulletin service, topical and imaginative lesson plans, assembly kits and ten- minute briefings on current topics. Topics include diversity and equality, health, conflict, and disasters and emergencies.

"I've just read through the lesson plan on stabbing, it's extremely thought provoking and I think will make for interesting classroom work. Great work"

"Thank you for this website. There is a mountain of information that I will be able to use for many Citizenship lessons. Brilliant"

Secondary teacher

"Really good, thought provoking stuff every time.”

Secondary headteacher on news think!

Helping young people to become better babysitters

With our specially tailored babysitting resources, you can train young people to safely take care of babies and younger children. Young people will gain the skills and knowledge to look after other people’s children and crucially, they will also learn how to prevent or cope with emergency situations.

First aid courses

The British Red Cross also provide first aid training, including

• First aid for teachers

>        A course for teachers and staff in schools wishing to learn basic first aid for adults and           children.

• First aid training

We offer a wide range of courses for the general public from 2 hours – 28 hours. All our first aid courses are flexible, easy to follow and led by friendly, experienced trainers. In most cases, courses are open to young people too.

• First aid training in schools