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Lower Primary: Fly the Flag

Learn about beach safety flags and how to know where and when it’s safe to go into the water.

  • 30-45 minutes
  • Optional: display equipment
  • Optional: printer
  • RNLI engagement and awareness
  • Stay together
This activity allows children to familiarise themselves with the different beach safety flags that will help them know when and where to enter the water. 

Guidance notes

Workshop resources

Printable flag templates will help children learn what they mean with different actions. They’ll also get a chance to say where they would put the different flags to indicate whether the water is safe to enter or not – and why.

Videos

  • RNLI What We Do film
    • Video
    • Video
    What we do
    Play this video to help share our key water safety messages and bring the work of the RNLI to life for your young people.

Curriculum links

England

  • KS1, PE, Swimming and Water Safety
  • RSHE, Basic First Aid, EYFS
  • Physical Development and KS1, PSHE Health and Wellbeing, Living in the Wider World

Northern Ireland

  • Foundation and KS1, PD&MU, Personal Understanding and Health, Safety

Republic of Ireland

  • Aistear, Wellbeing and SPHE, Myself

Scotland

  • Early and First Level, Health and Wellbeing (HWB)

Wales

  • Health and well-being

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