The BSA will use the funding to inform and educate KS3 & 4 pupils about the potential for harm in and around water, increase their knowledge and provide an environment where we can challenge behaviours, understand the pressures that they face, and through experiential learning to co-create a set of learning resources that we can, in conjunction with partners from both the education and water safety sectors, look to get embedded into the school system.
This new programme presents an opportunity to think differently, use existing insight, progress positively and create a new approach, we propose to start this journey of development, discovery and delivery based on the need to provide an “intervention” to slow and ultimately stop needless deaths in water (someone drowns every 20 hrs in the UK).
The water safety community does a wonderful job in Primary level education, however little or no activity is allocated to Secondary pupils, who we know will be those most likely to succumb to peer pressure, poor decision making, who have little appreciation of consequences of actions, and for some the impact of alcohol / and or drugs.
