Book a session

If one instructor has to cancel immediately before the session, the other two instructors can deliver the session between them to 30 children or less. They will do this by asking the supervising teacher to divide the group in half, and each instructor will teach two skills back-to-back to their half of the group. The two groups of children will then switch.

If the remaining instructors are unable to teach the session, one of the volunteers will telephone the school to cancel. We ask for your understanding, and to please re-book through the booking system.

We endeavour to provide our session to every child, but we recognise that children might not wish to take part, or to practise on the CPR manikins. Their right to decline will be respected.

We ask that if there are participants who require a little extra time, who need additional support or supervision to enable them to participate or who need for the content of the session to be reduced in any way, that you please let us know at the time of booking AND send an email to operations@littlelifesavers.org.

We will do our best to accommodate such needs if possible but ask that adequate staff are provided for students who routinely need 1-2-1 support.

“A picture tells a thousand words”

We very much value the opportunity to have some photographs of the training sessions we deliver, to help us to show others what we offer. We use them on our website, for our blog posts and to promote the work of the charity through advertising and social media.

We ask schools to provide pictures that have parental consent for such use which helps in promoting our work.

Where possible we prefer pictures that don’t show recognisable faces- such as those  taken from above or from the back during the training.

To bring the skills and knowledge to life

To create Face-to-face training brings the knowledge and skills to life and the videos can be used and referred back to at any time, but delivering a practical session gives the children a vital opportunity to practise, which simply watching a video doesn’t offer.

In addition, it helps the adult members of the public who volunteer with us, the opportunity to practise these skills which increases their own confidence to use them and teach them, and by visiting schools they have the opportunity to network with each other and the school. These are some of the cornerstones of building a strong, lifesaving community.

• Safeguarding: Although all our volunteers are DBS checked and agree to a code of conduct, safeguarding is an absolute priority for Little LifeSavers and teacher supervision helps this.
• Smooth running: Our volunteers will need assistance in managing the children during the session if they are to keep within the 70-minute time frame. Sessions can become very noisy and it is vital that the volunteers have help keeping the children on-task. The children will need to split into three groups, and the supervising member of staff is best placed to do this. We also ask that the member of staff keeps time for the 10-minute rotation.

We will request feedback from the member of staff at the end of the session for quality control.