What children in my school think about firstaid

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What children in my school think about first-aid

• Ellie Leather
• aged 10

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Introduction

• Ive been doing first-aid as an evening club for
  a year
• I wanted to find out what other kids in my school
  think about first-aid and if they would like
• to do it

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What other people say (1)

• BBC news (2006) reported that the British Red
  Cross said pupils need first aid training
• The British Red Cross asked 1960 adults and 90
  said children should do first aid in school
• The British Red Cross said pupils aged 11 to 14
  can learn basic emergency first aid and ages 14
  to 16 can learn resuscitation techniques
• But St John Ambulance (2007) train children aged
  between 7 and 16 in schools in all these things

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What other people say (2)

• Another survey conducted for the British Red
  Cross (2008) by The Childrens Forum asked 1100
  children from 20 schools throughout the UK
  questions about first aid
• 60 of those aged 9 to 13 didnt know enough to
  help themselves or others at an accident
• If first aid is given before the emergency
  vehicles arrive then childrens lives can be
  saved
• Over half the children in the survey had never
  learnt first aid
• 94 of children thought it was important to learn
  first aid and most wanted to learn more

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My research questions are
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• Are children in my school interested in learning
  about first aid?
• What are the reasons children in my school dont
  go to a first aid club if they want to?
• Would the children in my school like to do it if
  there was a school club?

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My sample

• I chose children in my school
• My school is close to the first-aid centre and I
  wanted to know why children dont do it
• One class of children in each year group
• Years 3, 4, 5 and 6
• Two adults
• one from the first-aid centre
• the headteacher of my school

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What methods I used

• Questionnaires for the children
• Year 3 (n20)
• Year 4 (n22)
• Year 5 (n25)
• Year 6 (n3)
• I used a questionnaire because I needed lots
• of data to get the answers to my questions
• After I finished analysing my questionnaires I
  interviewed the head teacher at my school and
• a teacher from St Johns
• I used open questions in my interviews to get
  better answers and recorded the interview on a
  Dictaphone

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Data analysis

• On my questionnaire I had open and closed
  questions so I had to analyse them in different
  ways
• For the closed questions I tallied them
• I learnt how to code answers to open questions
  but I didnt have enough answers so I couldnt
  code them
• I used the data from my questionnaires to help me
  think of my questions for my interviews
• An adult listened to my interview recordings and
  typed them out this is called transcribing
• I didnt code them because I only had two
• Instead I picked out the most important points

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Ethics (1)

• When I did my questionnaire I had to make sure I
  didnt hurt anyones feelings
• It was quite hard
• I gave them a choice to do it or not to do it so
  they didnt feel like they were being forced to
  do it
• I promised the questionnaires would be in a safe
  place and I would destroy them at the end of my
  project
• I also promised that any information they gave me
  would remain anonymous and confidential

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Ethics (2)

• This is what I wrote in my introduction
• PLEASE DO NOT WRITE YOUR NAME ON THIS
  QUESTIONNAIRE
• Hi Im Ellie. Im ten years old and Im
  interested in first aid so I want to find out
  what people think about it. Please can you help
  me by filling in this questionnaire? You dont
  have to fill it in if you dont want to. Any
  information you give me will remain anonymous and
  confidential. I will keep the sheets you give me
  in a safe place and destroy them at the end of my
  project.

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• Findings

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Do children go to a first-aid club outside school?
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Do children go to a first-aid club outside
school?

• Hardly anyone from the school goes to a first-aid
  club outside school
• The few who do are in years
• and

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Why do you like first-aid?

• I didnt get many answers for this question
  because only four people in my sample go to a
  first-aid club and only three of them answered
  this question!
• They said
• Because if you are injured you
• can first-aid yourself.
• Its so fun to be a first-aider.
• Because I like helping people.

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Why do you want to learn about first-aid?

• Only three people answered this question too!
• They said
• Because its fun.
• I like to learn more stuff about it.
• Because I can do it myself if I get hurt.

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Would children who dont already learn first-aid
like to learn it?
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Why dont you want to learn first-aid?

• Because its not something I would do
• Dont want to be responsible
• Because there is too much blood
• Because Im not really interested
• Because my mum wont let me
• Because I dont
• Because its silly
• I dont like it
• Because its too gross

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Reasons why children dont go to an evening
first-aid club

• OTHER REASONS
• Dont know when it is
• Dont have time
• Dont know what it is
• Dont know what to do there

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If your school had a first-aid club, would you go?
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If your school had a first-aid club would you
go?

• Most of the girls and boys would go to a school
  first-aid club if the school had one
• But the boys in year four are not as keen to do it

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Would you prefer a lunchtime club or an
after-school club?
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Would you prefer a lunchtime club or an after
school club?

• Most of the children in all the year groups would
  prefer an after school club
• These results are
• nearly the same
• for both boys and
• girls

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• Interviews

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School Liaison Officer for St. John Ambulance

• St. Johns can either run or support the first-aid
  clubs in schools
• They can only run after school clubs and not
  lunchtime clubs
• Older people are more aware of first-aid so St.
  John want to get more young people interested

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School first-aid clubs

• Not many schools have a first-aid club
• But some schools just have St. Johns coming in to
  run short courses for children
• There are different ways of running a
  club/courses

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School first-aid clubs

• ONE WAY
• St. Johns teach the first aid
• This is more expensive
• St. John have all the equipment

• ANOTHER WAY
• St. Johns teach teachers first-aid and the
  teachers teach the children
• This one is cheaper
• No equipment
• So St. Johns have to bring in special equipment
  when its needed

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First aid clubs

• INSIDE SCHOOL
• More children likely to come
• Concentrate on learning first aid
• More difficult to
• get hold of equipment

• OUTSIDE SCHOOL
• Sometimes more difficult to get to
• Learn first aid and do other activities and
  outings
• Easy to get hold of equipment
• Might make new friends

BUT CHILDREN COULD DO BOTH!!!!!!
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Headteacher

• Surprised that so many children wanted to have a
  first-aid club or learn first-aid
• Surprised that so many prefer an after school
  club and that they would give up their own time
• Most of the clubs in school have come because the
  children have said they are interested in one
  particular thing
• This research project has shown that children are
  interested in having a first-aid club so the
  school would definitely consider having one

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What do you think is better? An after school or a
lunchtime club?

• AFTER SCHOOLCLUB
• More time
• More spaces available so can
• fit in with other clubs
• Children willing to give up their own time

• LUNCHTIME CLUB
• Too rushed
• Children might
• not be willing to give up their playtime

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Possible problems 1

• PROBLEMS
• Other clubs using the hall
• Finding someone to run the club
• The cost

• POSSIBLE SOLUTION
• Library probably big enough
• St. Johns could help or could train the teachers
• If St. Johns ran it school could have a discount
• School might be able to help with funding

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Possible problems 2

• POSSIBLE SOLUTION
• Courses could run for number of weeks so
  different groups could take turns
• Or school might have to decide which year groups
  can do it

• PROBLEM
• Too many people might want to do it

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• Discussion and Conclusion

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• If I had given all the children in my school my
  questionnaires the results might have been more
  accurate
• I couldnt do this because the other children in
  my research group had to hand out questionnaires
  too
• I was disappointed that I only had a few
  questionnaires back from year 6 because I
  couldnt get the answers I needed

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• I wasnt surprised to know that hardly any one in
  my school goes to a first-aid club
• I was surprised that the children who did go to a
  first-aid club were only in years 4 and 5
• Because I only got a few questionnaires back from
  year six I wasnt sure if there were more
  children that do go to a first-aid club
• There might be children in the other classes that
  go to a first-aid club but didnt get the
  questionnaires

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• I didnt get many answers to why people want
  learn first-aid or why they like it because not
  many of them belong to a club
• I dont think it has affected the results of my
  research too much but I think it would be helpful
  to know more
• I got more answers to why dont you want to learn
  first-aid
• I was interested in those answers because that
  was what I thought before I started but now I
  have learnt it its not boring and scary anymore
  because i know first-aid and know what to do

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• My results agreed with the survey conducted for
  the British Red Cross because most of the
  children in my school had never learned first-aid
  but most of them wanted to
• Im not sure what the children in year six think
  because I only got two questionnaires back from
  them
• I dont know whether this is because I gave them
  the choice to or because they werent interested
  in my topic

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• Before I did my research I thought that the main
  reason children wouldnt come to the club is
  because it finishes too late
• But my research showed that it is because not
  many children knew where it was and if they did
  no one can take them
• So if there was a school first aid club it would
  solve all those problems
• Lots of children would like to learn first aid
  but they cant because there isn't one they can
  go to in school

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• My research showed that most children would
  prefer an after school club
• Which is good because that means St. Johns could
  come in and run it
• There are still some things that need to be
  sorted out but I feel happy because my research
  might have made it possible for my school to have
  a first-aid club so that more children who want
  to learn first-aid can

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References

• BBC News (2006) Pupils need first aid training.
  Available from
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/5327512.stm
• British Red Cross (2008) Research shows children
  lack first aid skills. Available from
• http//www.redcross.org.uk/standard.asp?id45878
• St. John Ambulance (2007) Young first aider.
  Available from
• http//www.sja.org.uk/sja/training-courses/course
  s-for-young-people/young-first-aider