[Closed] Adventure in schools.....

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She should 'show and tell' the exciting H&S forms

Seems a trifle excessive. Mind you they might have been using the school flamethrower....

To be fair, Mallory died..

I'm a teacher and little bit of me dies each time I here about things like this

Perhaps if kids learn about risk management at that age, there'll be less b******s about health and safety spouted by ignorant trolls and the daily mail in future decades.

I'm actually impressed that the school are teaching this, rather than just using "H&S" as an excuse to forbid everything

I don't see any risk. That nice old man in the raincoat is usually hanging around the school garden to keep an eye on the little children anyway.....

Why on earth should a 6 year old know anything about a risk assessment?

I accept such things (sadly) have to be done, but there is absolutely no point in telling the kids about it and it just encourages the idea that "outside" is a scary place that needs to be carefully managed and requires close adult supervision.

Well, maybe if people weren't so quick to try and sue everyone, risk assesments woon't be quite so necessary...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23999844-family-told-to-pay-pound-225-after-boy-breaks-teachers-tiffany-necklace.do

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S'Elfinsafety gawn mayd, in't it?

What the hell have they done to that poor lads photo??

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I assume his "special need" is that his face is made entirely of plastic?

It's Photoshop gawn mayd in't it?

It's Russell Howard!

I wonder what we're not being told about the garden, maybe it's full of used hypodermics and hungry wolves.

/ Devils advocate mode

See, we get kids (primary and secondary) on our outdoor centre to do risk assessments all the time (like very day).
So many kids these days lack judgement of both level of risk and intensity - or even seeing the bleeding obvious.
For me it is really important that they start to make these judgements - my kids do it by climbing trees and riding bikes etc - but so few kids do these days. Increasingly we have teachers asking us to allow some risk - letting a kid learn to fall over and pick themselves up again despite a bump/fright/scratch.
At the other end of the scale we have kids who cannot judge the intensity of a risk (standing right at the edge of a cliff for example).
I do so many things in life because of the risk, apparent and real. I get the kids to look at risk to appreciate it as a positive thing, not a fearful thing. Kids will grow up looking for risk and excitement - one way or another. I guess I hope that some wee insight into risk may make them pick up a bike and 'pin it' rather than head out in a Corsa and floor it on a public road as an example....
I suspect the teachers in the example may not be using this tool appropriately however....

/ end advocate mode

We host forest schools on some of the properties I look after. It encourages children to try stuff out and apply what we would call dynamic risk assessment. As in looking at the rotten branch and considering that it may snap when swung from and then deciding whether they can handle the fall.
It's just fancy names for what we tend to do.

maybe her teachers can come and teach the lot in my lab about risk assesements so i don't have to constantly moan on about it.

Risk assessments 🙂

The boarding school I attended in Africa was in the middle of the bush. The older boys used to go out hunting with the masters to get meat for our meals. (Proper bush, plenty lions etc)

If you think that sounds farfetched, buy the book about the school from [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slope-Kongwa-Hill-Boys-Africa/dp/1897435657/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319062040&sr=8-1 ]Amazon[/url]. Half the profits go to support an African school in the same place.

Can somebody explain to me what's wrong with teaching kids about risk?