Youth Programme (11+ Years)

We are happy to visit your school with our activity run water safety advice assembly. The assembly is approximately 60 mins long and caters for one class per session, either in the classroom environment or in the school hall.

Please note that throw line work needs a room or space large enough to throw them.

Children in key stage 3 are normally starting to venture out on their own without adult supervision. We feel that this is the most important time to tell them about Owen’s story, what he did and how he could have done things differently had he been educated about open water.

We talk about peer pressure and ways to keep themselves and their friends safe when near open water sites. These are activity lead sessions and are run with the help of the ambassadors from their school.

We introduce them to the OWEN programme at year 7. In year 8 they can become ambassadors for their school. Every year we add new ambassadors in year 8. As they progress through their school years the students will deliver the programme to their peers.

Each school receives a Delivery Box that is donated through grant funding or fundraising. When the ambassadors start year 9, we prepare them to deliver the OWEN programme during national Drowning Prevention week to their peers. We provide the ambassadors with updated information so that they are delivering the most up to date content.

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• Water safety awareness
• Spotting dangers in and around open water sites in their geographical area
• Getting in and out of the water safely
• Self-rescue
• Performing rescues safely
• Looking at cold water shock and the effects it has on their bodies
• What to do in an emergency and who to call and what to say
• Float to live, how to float effectively
• Use a throw line effectively
• Safe places to swim/play swim England accredited sites
• Effects of alcohol and drugs around water

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What Your School / Group Will Get For Your Subscription:

A delivery box containing:

• All the lesson plans needed to deliver the programme content
• Teachers notes
• Information cards with information about the tasks
• 999 protocol for water incidents
• Images of different open water sites in the local geographical area
• Activity content
• Certificates
• Stamps/stickers for the certificates
• Throw Bags X5
• Throw lines X3
• Debris, plastic bottles, footballs
• Virtual Reality Video footage
• Virtual reality headsets
• Access to the age appropriate videos about open water and peer pressure
• Float to live advice
• What3words app for their mobile phones
• Safer places to swim

For more information about this opportunity and for your school to be part of the subscription, please Contact Us.

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HERO7 - Creative Writing

We are offering an exciting opportunity for your School to get involved in the OWEN story/poem collection.

We would like you to write a story/poem (short or long) about how to stay safe around open water. This can be an individual’s piece of work or a collective group idea with many involved.

All stories and poems will be added to the creative writing section on the website. If your story is chosen for a special award it will be published in a book.

If you would like to enter your school into the creative writing competition, email your entry to please include child/children/group name and age(s).