Transcript What children in my school think about first aid , by Ellie Leather aged 10

What children
in my school
think about
first-aid
Ellie Leather
aged 10
Introduction
• I’ve 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
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
What other people say (2)
• Another survey conducted for the British Red
Cross (2008) by The Children’s Forum asked
1100 children from 20 schools throughout the UK
questions about first aid
• 60% of those aged 9 to 13 didn’t know enough to
help themselves or others at an accident
• If first aid is given before the emergency vehicles
arrive then children’s 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
• Are children in my school
interested in learning about first
aid?
• What are the reasons children in
my school don’t 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?
My sample
• I chose children in my school
• My school is close to the first-aid
centre and I wanted to know why
children don’t 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
What methods I used
• Questionnaires for the children
• Year 3 (n=20)
• Year 4 (n=22)
• Year 5 (n=25)
• Year 6 (n=3)
• 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
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 didn’t have enough answers
so I couldn’t 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 didn’t code them because I only had two
• Instead I picked out the most important
points
Ethics (1)
• When I did my questionnaire I had to
make sure I didn’t hurt anyone’s
feelings
• It was quite hard
• I gave them a choice to do it or not to
do it so they didn’t 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
Ethics (2)
This is what I wrote in my introduction
PLEASE DO NOT WRITE YOUR
NAME ON THIS QUESTIONNAIRE
Hi I’m Ellie. I’m ten years old and I’m
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 don’t have to fill it
in if you don’t 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.
Findings
Do children go to a first-aid club outside
school?
Percentage of children who answered the
question
100
90
80
70
60
Yes
No
50
40
30
20
10
0
Y3
Y4
Y5
Y6
Year group - GIRLS
Percentage of children who answered the
question
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Y3
Y4
Y5
Year group - BOYS
Y6
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
Why do you like first-aid?
• I didn’t 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.”
“It’s so fun to be a first-aider.”
“Because I like helping people.”
Why do you want to learn
about first-aid?
• Only three people answered this
question too!
• They said:
“Because it’s fun.”
“I like to learn more stuff about
it.”
“Because I can do it myself if I
get hurt.”
Percentage of children who answered the
question
Would children who don’t already learn first-aid
like to learn it?
100
90
80
70
60
Yes
No
50
40
30
20
10
0
Y3
Y4
Y5
Y6
Year group - GIRLS
Percentage of children who answered the
question
100
90
80
70
60
Yes
No
50
40
30
20
10
0
Y3
Y4
Y5
Year group - BOYS
Y6
Why don’t you
want to learn
first-aid?
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Because its not something I would do
Don’t want to be responsible
Because there is too much blood
Because I’m not really interested
Because my mum won’t let me
Because I don’t
Because it’s silly
I don’t like it
Because it’s too gross
Reasons why children don’t go to an evening
first-aid club
12
Number of children
10
8
Y3
Y4
Y5
Y6
6
4
2
0
Something else
on
Too far away
OTHER REASONS
•Don’t know when it is
•Don’t have time
•Don’t know what it is
•Don’t know what to do there
Nobody can take Don't know where
me
it is
Reasons
Finishes too late
Cost
If your school had a first-aid club, would you go?
100
90
80
percentage
70
60
Yes
No
50
40
30
20
10
0
n=9
n=10
n=11
n=2
Y3
Y4
Y5
Y6
GIRLS
100
90
80
percentage
70
60
Yes
No
50
40
30
20
10
0
n=7
n=12
n=11
n=1
Y3
Y4
Y5
Y6
BOYS
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
Would you prefer a lunchtime club or an
after-school club?
100
90
80
percentage
70
60
Lunchtime
After school
50
40
30
20
10
0
n=10
n=10
n=7
n=1
Y3
Y4
Y5
Y6
girls
100
90
80
percentage
70
60
Lunchtime
After school
50
40
30
20
10
0
n=10
n=9
n=12
n=1
Y3
Y4
Y5
Y6
boys
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
Interviews
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
School first-aid clubs
• Not many schools have a firstaid 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
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
First aid clubs
INSIDE SCHOOL
OUTSIDE SCHOOL
• More children likely • Sometimes more
difficult to get to
to come
• Learn first aid and
• Concentrate on
do other activities
learning first aid
and outings
• More difficult to
• Easy to get hold of
get hold of
equipment
equipment
• Might make new
friends
BUT CHILDREN COULD DO BOTH!!!!!!
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
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
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
Possible problems 2
PROBLEM
• Too many
people might
want to do it
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
Discussion and
Conclusion
• If I had given all the children in
my school my questionnaires
the results might have been
more accurate
• I couldn’t 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 couldn’t
get the answers I needed
• I wasn’t surprised to know that hardly
any one in my school goes to a firstaid 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
wasn’t 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
didn’t get the questionnaires
• I didn’t 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 don’t 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 don’t 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 it’s not boring and scary
anymore because i know first-aid and
know what to do
• 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
• I’m not sure what the children in
year six think because I only got
two questionnaires back from them
• I don’t know whether this is
because I gave them the choice to
or because they weren’t interested
in my topic
• Before I did my research I thought
that the main reason children
wouldn’t 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 can’t because
there isn't one they can go to in
school
• 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
References
• BBC News (2006) ‘Pupils need first aid
training’. Available from:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/532751
2.stm
• British Red Cross (2008) ‘Research shows
children lack first aid skills’. Available from:
http://www.redcross.org.uk/standard.asp?id=
45878
• St. John Ambulance (2007) ‘Young first aider’.
Available from:
http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/trainingcourses/courses-for-young-people/youngfirst-aider