School Water Safety

.    young leader water safety training

£150 Donation for Young Leader Training

We are visiting all parts of the UK through 2025 to deliver 15x hub training sessions, if you would like to find out more/attend, please email TODAY

info@abovewater.org


Overview

 

We are over subscribed for individual school visits in 2025... 

but we have a solution!  

 We train young leaders (school age children from 8 to 18) * in all the essential aspects of water safety and drowning prevention training.  Water safety awareness, blue cross code, drowning prevention techniques such as self-rescue and rescuing others, all taught in a dry environment, NO pool needed.

 *Primary & Secondary schools have young leader programmes to help children develop leadership skills and become more responsible they can also be part of curriculum subjects like GCSE & A Level PE also DofE, UCAS statement.


Process
•Your school agrees to host the training and becomes the hub school.  Any school can be a hub school, you just need to have enough space to accommodate all visitors for a 3-hour window.
•Local, feeder/trust schools, to the hub school (Primary & Secondary) are invited to send up to 4 Young Leaders plus adult to receive the 2 hrs training.  Training can be delivered to primary & secondary age students at the same time.
•Once trained, Young Leaders can then deliver water safety sessions as classroom activities and assemblies across their trust.
 
0utcome
•Young Leaders become school ambassadors for water safety, helping their own school to deliver these essential life skills.
•With 9 million school age students in the UK, this is the largest practical solution to annual training for the children of the UK. Research shows that students that receive a minimum of 45 minutes training each year in water safety knowledge and practical drowning prevention techniques not only have a greater survival chance but also take these skills into a healthier and happier adulthood.
 
Cost
•There is NO cost to the hub school, plus unlimited spaces for their own students.
•Visiting schools are asked for a £150 donation to attend (minimum school attendance x5 schools)
Schools can seek funds from local commercial sponsorship (see below), Pupil Premium.

 

£150 Donation for Young Leader Training

For more information, please contact info@abovewater.org

flyer for schools to attend water safety young leader training 

'The Above Water session that Brendon held at Lipson, Plymouth was insightful and extremely useful for both our Lipson students and our feeder schools.  The session was meaningful and enjoyable for all ages taking part. The practical nature ensured students were engaged throughout and gave them real-world experiences of a topic that affects them and will hopefully stay with them for life'.

Zoe Philpott- Executive & Project Assistant Tedd Wragg Trust

 

students learning water safety

Are you a business interested in sponsoring a Water Safety hub session?

To sponsor a hub session so all schools can attend for free

(up to 50 schools can attend but dependant on space provided by the hub school) 

cost £500

£500 can training up to 200 young leaders that can then go back to their own schools to teach water safety and drowning prevention, impacting an astounding...

32,000 children 

 

DONATE £500


(200 young leaders attending from 50 schools, 25 primary schools, average primary school size 280 pupils, 25 secondary schools average secondary size 1000 pupils)