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RNLI Water Safety Passport Lower Primary

Be safe and have fun around water – collect virtual stamps as you learn the Water Safety Code.

  • 30 minutes
  • Optional: display equipment
  • Optional: speakers
  • Stop and think
  • Stay together
  • Float
  • Call 999 / 112

This workshop includes activities to begin to develop children's water safety knowledge through the Water Safety Code:

  • Stop and think.
  • Stay together.
  • Float.
  • Call 999 or 112.

The main resource is the story ‘A day by the water’, in which children discover friends Choppy the cat and Ruff the dog – and hear about their misadventure at the park.

Guidance notes

Workshop resources

As each activity is completed, a new stamp is earned. When all four are completed, certificates can be personalised for each child, printed out and sent home with children as a record of their achievement.

Certificates can be personalised for each child, printed out and sent home with children as a record of their achievement.

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