PHSE. Understanding the purpose of keeping safe and interacting with the class stories, if any.

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1 Burns & Scalds prevention Key Stage 3 Lesson Plan Overview & purpose To educate students of the dangers in and around the home, related to burns and scalds accident prevention. With new knowledge gained by lesson, helping to reduce the amount of injuries suffered by students and their younger siblings. Prepared by Educational Standards Addressed PHSE Teachers Guide Students Guide Objectives Reducing through educational awareness, your students suffering from burns and scalds injuries. Introduction to the lesson 5 mins, should include statistics and asking the class if they or any of their Family, have ever been burnt or scalded. Understanding the purpose of keeping safe and interacting with the class stories, if any. Materials Needed Colouring pens / pencils Plain paper Kools Family Animation Fun animation that introduces various dangers in and around the home. The 10 minute animation is to be played on a screen or an interactive white board. Please visit the resources page on the website to play film. The animation is designed to get the students to point out the stupid and dangerous actions of the Kools Family. Other Resources / Verification Q+A s Will identify the students understanding of the dangers that surround them. The 20 minute question and answer session, can be found below the animation on the resources page. Discuss with the students each question and ask if Mum and Dad do things at home the correct way. Encourage the students to educate their parents when they get home. Interactively answer the questions on the screen, in turn choosing students to come up and take part. Internet access Interactive screen Printer Activity 1. Spot the danger Print off the spot the difference PDF file, correct answers can be found on the fact file sheet. please allow 10 minutes for this activity. Students should be encouraged to use their intuition to spot the dangers in the various rooms. Dangers missed should be pointed out by the teacher. Supporting documentation Fact file sheet Spot the danger sheet Activity 2. Design Hot drink scald prevention poster. 15 mins class time to discuss ideas and completion in spare time. 180 children a day are scalded by hot drinks. To make the public aware of this and to reduce the number of scalds from hot drinks, Prevention Town will publish a awareness poster Nationally. The winning design will be accredited to the student that created it and their school. Create a poster that is vibrant and gets the awareness message across effectively. Be part of reducing the amount of children scalded by hot drinks in the UK. Please send finished posters to: karen@preventiontown.eu Hot drink scald prevention poster sample Completion certificate Additional Notes Summary & Certification Do the students believe that they will be more aware of the dangers in and around the home after completing the Prevention Town burns and scalds prevention programme stage 1. PDF certificate to be downloaded from Prevention Town resources page. Please allow 5 minutes. Receive certificate to be taken home

2 Fact file sheet 1of 2 Key stage 1. Most children who die in fires die because they breathe in smoke which poisons them, rather than being burnt by the actual fire, do all your students have smoke alarms at home? If no, the Fire Service will fit for free. Safety reminders how to stop burns and scalds In the kitchen There s more to watch out for than just the oven kettles, hot drinks and saucepans can all burn. Young children can climb on chairs and counters and may often reach higher than you think. Saucepans can seem like fun to play with. Turning the saucepan handles away from the edge of the counter or cooker and using the back rings keeps them out of reach of little hands. Kettle cords are also a temptation, but if you push the cord to the back of the worktop, or use a kettle with a short or curly flex, you will be able to keep them out of reach. Hot drinks can easily be knocked over or grabbed by little fingers, and a cup of tea can burn even 15 minutes after it s been made. So put your baby or child down before picking up your hot drink, avoid passing them over children s heads and keep them out of reach of children. Hobs and hotplates can all stay hot even after they ve been turned off, and oven doors can be very hot when the oven is on. You can teach children how to behave safely around them, but they might not understand or remember the danger so it s best to keep them away. Microwaves don t heat things in the same way as a cooker. Avoid warming babies bottles in the microwave, the milk may heat up unevenly leaving spots of very hot milk which can scald your baby s mouth. Use a warmer or jug of hot water instead. Shake the bottle well after warming and test to make sure it s lukewarm not hot. Chip pans can easily cause fires! If you don t want to switch to oven chips, or use an electric deep-fat fryer, make sure you only fill your pan 1/3 full and keep an eye on it. Matches, cigarette lighters and candles are grown-up objects. Toddlers and young children can find them fascinating. It s safest to keep matches, lighters and candles out of their reach and sight. If you can lock them away, even better. Remember that even though lighters are child-resistant, many 3 and 4 year olds will be able to operate them in a few seconds and the child-resistant mechanism is no barrier for older children.

3 Fact file sheet 2 of 2 Key stage 1. In the bedroom Hair straighteners and curling tongs. Hair straighteners get really hot and can still burn even after they re unplugged. If they re stored safely on a high shelf, or put inside a heatproof bag, you can stop your little ones from playing with them, or touching or stepping on them by accident. In the bathroom Whether your child loves them or hates them, there s no avoiding bath time. A baby s skin is 15 times thinner than an adult s, so hot water can pose a real danger to children. Cold before hot. You can make sure the water is the right temperature by putting the cold water in the bath first. When the cold water has run, add the hot to get the right temperature. The elbow test. The quickest way to check! Dipping your elbow into the water gives a good idea of how it will feel for your baby or toddler. It shouldn t feel hot or cold. Thermostatic mixing valves (TMVs) are a great invention. They control the temperature of the hot tap so that you can have a nice hot bath but they stop children being scalded within seconds. Some newer houses and flats have TMVs on the taps already, but you can get them installed by a professional. Bath time. Many scald accidents happen when a child gets into the bath before it s ready, play with the hot tap when they're in the bath or lean over to pick out a toy and fall in. Bath water can cause such bad burns that children need years of treatment and may be scarred for life. Staying with your child all the time when they re in the bath time means you can keep them safe and also share some quality time. The living room Here s where the toddlers take over. A living room can be full of surprises - exciting things to grab for and places to explore. Even if your baby has just started to crawl, you d be surprised at the things they can reach. Hot drinks are something to watch out for here too. Choose a high shelf to put your mug on, rather than a low coffee table. If you need a relaxing cup of tea, ask someone else to hold the baby while you put your feet up, or put the baby in its own chair. Heaters and fires. Dancing flames can be appealing to babies and toddlers. A fire guard can stop them getting to the fire and reaching for or falling into the flames. Irons. Irons will stay hot after they re unplugged. Even older children could make a mistake and touch a hot iron. it is always safest to put it away out of reach and out of sight after you ve used it.

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5 Teachers copy spot the danger

6 Teachers lesson plan Hot drinks Hot oven Pan handles T-light candles Matches Lighters Chip pan fires Knives Alcohol Hot drinks Open fires Clothes on heaters Cigarette fires Iron Kettle Microwave T.V above heaters Plug sockets Kitchen dangers Lounge dangers Scalding water Scalding radiators Blind cord strangulation Razors Cleaning fluids Bleach Blind cord strangulation Perfume Slippery floors Drowning Electrocution from mains plug radio s Bathroom dangers Hair straighteners Lava lamps Furniture to climb up by a window Hot radiators Bedroom dangers Some answers to spot the danger key stage 1-3 / Key stage 4 identify the dangers

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8 Burns & scalds prevention awareness certification part 1. Name This certificate shows that you have completed stage 1. of the Prevention Town burns and scalds programme and you understand how to keep you and those around you, safe and well. Date Teacher Charity Director Please visit