1. Health and First Aid
(Responsibility for Self) This is a compulsory achievement

Personal Health
  • Explain how and why to keep your hands and nails clean and why.
  • Explain when you should wash your hands. 
  • Demonstrate how to look after your teeth. 
Basic First Aid
  • Put together a simple first aid kit and take it on bushwalks and outings with you. 
  • Show how to treat a graze or small cut. 
Infections
  • Show an understanding of how colds are spread and how to prevent them. 
Adult Help
  • Explain why you need adult help in case of accidents.
  • Pass a message, including an address from one adult to another. 
  • Explain how to use a mobile phone and a public phone and discuss the steps you would take to make and emergency phone call. 
Personal Health
  • Explain how and why to keep your feet in good condition.
  • Discuss why sleep is important.
  • Discuss the importance of a balanced diet.
  • Prepare a healthy lunch for an outing
Basic First Aid
  • Check and replenish or put together a simple first aid kit and take it on bushwalks and outings with you.
  • Show how to treat a bleeding nose.
  • Show how to treat stings and insect bites common to your region.
Infections
  • Show an understanding of how germs and head lice can pass to people by contact and how to prevent this.
Adult Help
  • Explain why you need adult help in case of accidents.
  • Pass a message, including an address, from one adult to another.
  • Explain how to use a mobile phone and a public phone and discuss the steps you would take to make and emergency phone call.
Personal Health
  • Discuss personal hygiene such as showering/bathing regularly, changing clothes and using deodorants. 
  • Show you understand the different types of foods that will build a healthy body by preparing a menu for one day at camp.

Basic First Aid
  • Check and replenish or put together a simple first aid kit and take it on bushwalks and outings with you.
  • Tie a sling with a reef knot. Show how to treat bums and scalds.
  • Show how to treat bleeding. Explain what to do in the case of fainting.

Infections
  • Show an understanding of what can happen if you eat food that has not been stored correctly.
  • Discuss the ways to store food appropriately.
Adult Help

  • Explain why you need adult help in case of accidents.
  • Pass a message, including an address, numbers and details of an accident, from one adult to another.
  • Explain how to use a mobile phone and a public phone and discuss the steps you would take to make an emergency phone call.