A group activity to be used in conjunction with other Safe 4 Summer resources including the core presentation.
Feel free to adapt things to your own style of teaching, and do let us know how you get on – your feedback will help us
improve this pack for the future.
Topic:
Water Safety
Objective:
Learners will be able to:
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Explain why particular situations/activities are dangerous
Identify unnecessary risks and anti social behaviour
Desired Audience:
KS3 and KS4
Group Size:
30 (in conjunction with A Day Out & Delayed)
Approx Time:
2-3 hours (this allows time for learners to prepare & deliver)
Resources:
Bored Play script (see below)
Bored worksheet (see below)
Instructions:
In groups of 3 learners are employed to learn and deliver the play. Through this process
learners should also complete the bored worksheet.
The play is delivered to other classes/year groups, who use the Bored worksheet to
identify risks and how to avoid them.
Curriculum Links
Every Child Matters
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Stay Safe
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Make a Positive Contribution
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Enjoy and Achieve
PSHE
This activity allows learners to explore elements of the Key Concept of Risk
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Recognising that healthy lifestyles, and the wellbeing of self and others, depend
on information and making responsible choices
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Understanding risk in both positive and negative terms and understanding that
individuals need to manage risk to themselves and others in a range of situations
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Appreciating that pressure can be used positively or negatively to influence others
in situations involving risk
Learners will develop the following Key Processes
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Use knowledge and understanding to make informed choices about safety, health
and wellbeing
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Know when and how to get help
Curriculum Opportunities provided by this activity:
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Use case studies, simulations, scenarios and drama to explore personal and
social issues and have time to reflect on them in relation to their own lives and
behaviour
Bored – Script
Characters:
Joe
Ashley
Terri
SCENE 1
Outside Joe’s house, just after he has stepped outside.
JOE:
I’ve got a fiver, you wanna go to macdonalds?
ASHLEY: Nah, I’ve not got anything, she said I’ll just waste it.
TERRI: If she doesn’t give you any money what are you supposed to do all day?
ASHLEY: She reckons there’s loads you can do, she’s like ‘oh visit safe4summer, it tells you all the stuff that’s
happening on there’. (Imitating someone else’s high pitched voice)
JOE:
And does it?
ASHLEY: Dunno, I couldn’t be bothered looking, I was on Facebook
JOE and TERRI roll their eyes.
TERRI: Well...
JOE:
What?
TERRI: What are we doing today?
JOE:
Park?
SCENE 2
At the park Terri and Joe are sitting on a bench, Ashley is standing over a bin fiddling with something
ASHLEY: So... this is boring
TERRI: Yep, you wanna do something else?
JOE:
Let me finish this first
TERRI: What?
Realising what Joe is doing
Oh...
ASHLEY: Careful we’ll get in loads of trouble if anyone sees
JOE:
It’s so not a big deal, my brother used to set fire to bins all the time, there’s like nothing in
not like I’m setting fire to a house or anything
TERRI: Yeah it’ll be fine, no-one will even care.
JOE: I’m done now anyway, where are we going?
TERRI: Rese?
there – it’s
SCENE 3
The three friends arrive at the side of the reservoir, it’s deserted except for them
ASHLEY: It’s well quiet, I thought it’d be busy
JOE:
TERRI:
JOE:
Na, everyone’s scared of coming after that lad drowned last year
Who was that?
Dunno some kid... He went to another school I think
ASHLEY: Well I’m not getting in if people have died in there or something
I’m just gonna sit at the side
TERRI: Well I’m going in.
(Looking at JOE) Bet I can swim to the other side and back, before you can run all the way around the edge.
JOE:
Yeah I’ll bet you can, you’re a top swimmer and it’ll take ages to run all the way round.
TERRI: All right then, bet I can swim to the other side and back, before... you can get to that tree and back.
JOE:
Ok I’ll take that bet. Ash you’re ref
ASHLEY: (engaged in a tense game on a phone)
Yeah whatever, knock yourselves out, I’ll be here
TERRI: (takes shoes off and gets into the water)
Oh man it’s freezin’
Ash, count us off.
ASHLEY: (still not looking up from the phone)
What?
Oh umm 3, 2, 1 go
The other two start their race, Ashley carries on playing with the phone.
In no time at all Joe is back.
JOE:
(out of breath)
Did I win?
ASHLEY: (still not looking up from the phone)
Hmm? Looks like it
JOE looks out toward the water
JOE:
Where’s Terri got to – I can’t...
ASHLEY: (getting agitated about being distracted from the phone again)
What? You can’t what?
JOE:
I can’t see Terri
ASHLEY: (looks over the water exaggeratedly)
I’m sure that if you just look you’ll see....
(Ashley’s voice trails off as realisation that their friend can’t be seen dawns)
JOE:
Maybe Terri got out on the other side or something.
ASHLEY: No, the sides are really steep over there, look. No one would be able to get out
JOE:
(shouting) Terri! Terri!?
Ashley keeps watching the water trying to see Terri
JOE:
Terri! Terri!
(The shouts start to get faster now)
Terri Terri Terri Terri!
ASHLEY: (starting to panic too) Terri! Terri!
JOE:
I’m gonna get in and look
ASHLEY: You’re not supposed to do that
JOE:
What?
ASHLEY: They said, you should just call 999 if someone is in trouble, don’t get in.
SCENE 4
Ashley and Joe sit back to back on the floor
JOE:
It took 7 minutes for the fire engine to arrive.
ASHLEY: They were busy putting out a rubbish bin fire.
JOE:
It took them 4 hours to find Terri’s body
ASHLEY: They said it was the cold.
JOE:
it made it too hard to breath, to use your muscles. They said I was Ash though
ASHLEY: They reckon if we’d gone in after Terri, we’d have died too.
Bored – Worksheet (Intermediate)
1) List 5 key events in the story?
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2) What is the main turning point?
3) How does this affect the outcome of the story?
4) What could each of the characters have done differently to change the outcome of the day?
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5) Fill out the diagram to show how what happened to Terri has many potential consequences.
Bored – Worksheet (Beginner)
1) List 3 key events in the story?
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Joe sets fire to the rubbish bin
2) Choose the main turning point, how does this affect the way the story turns out?
3) What could each of the characters have done differently to change the outcome of the day?
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Joe shouldn’t have set fire to the bin
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4) Fill out the diagram to show how what happened to Terri has many potential consequences.
Terri’s mum
and dad will
be very upset
forever.
Bored – Worksheet: Possible Answers
1) List 3 key events in the story?
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Ashley doesn’t check the safe 4 summer website
Joe sets fire to the rubbish bin
Terri dares/bets with Joe
Terri gets into the water
Ashley fails to watch what happens
Terri goes missing
Ashley and Joe call the fire service
Terri is found
2) Choose the main turning point, how does this affect the way the story turns out?
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The friends have nothing to do for the day and get bored.
This is potentially the fire that delays the fire service, and it could have made things a lot worse, if for
instance something else had caught fire e.g. a bench or a tree, or if someone had thrown something
flammable into the bin, not realising that it was on fire.
Terri puts pressure on himself to do something that he knows he shouldn’t, which results in him risking his
own life.
Getting into the water even though it is cold is the root cause of Terri’s death.
By not watching Ashley makes it more difficult for the fire service to help Terri, as it is not known where Terri
got into trouble nor how long Terri has been under the water.
Calling the fire service instead of getting into the water, keeps the others out of danger.
It is learned what has happened and how Terri ended up in danger.
3) What could each of the characters have done differently to change the outcome of the day?
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Ashley could have been more organised and found something fun and safe to do on the safe4 summer
website
Joe shouldn’t have set the bin alight.
Terri shouldn’t have gone into the water, especially once it was discovered how cold the water was.
4) Fill out the diagram to show how what happened to Terri has many potential consequences.
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Ripple effect: Terri’s family have lost a loved one. Terri’s friends have lost their friend. Money spent by the
emergency services, ban people from swimming in open areas,