TITLE |
Heartstart for Schools: Emergency Life Support (ELS) Skills Training for Pupils: School Based Instructor Training |
DESCRIPTION |
Heartstart UK teaches children as young as 5 years Emergency Life Support skills. Cornwall Healthy Schools is working with Heartstart UK to offer schools an opportunity to offer their pupils and parents ELS training. Schools affiliate to the national programme and in return receive free equipment (including resuscitation mannikins), teaching resources and supply cover for attending training courses.
Heartstart offers a powerful life-skill accessible to all children and can contribute to EHWB criteria of HS as well be a practical part of encouraging parents to allow children to walk or cycle to school and an important part of the ECM Staying Safe outcome.
The CHSP provides school based instructor training and covers the expenses for the Training Supervisors who do the practical training and support schools.
For more information about Heartstart see our website www.healthpromcornwall.org/Healthy_Schools/Heartstart/ |
AUDIENCE |
Anyone from a school (teacher, governor, parent, TA etc) who can offer training to pupils either in curriculum time or in a club, out of school activity. |
DATE / TIME |
2 courses will be run each term up to Summer 2008
see website, www.healthpromcornwall.org/ for dates / venues |
VENUE |
Throughout county as appropriate. |
COST |
FREE (expenses and supply cover will be paid by Heartstart UK) |
LEADERS |
CHSP team members and fully qualified training supervisors |
OUTLINE |
9.00-9.30 Coffee & Registration. Display/Resources
9.30-9.45 Welcome and Introductions
9.45 – 10.00 Cornwall Schools Heartstart Project: an Introduction
Aims and Objectives of the Heartstart UK Schools initiative
10.00-12.45 Unit A: Practical Skills (inc. break at 11.00am)
12.45-1.00 Plenary / Questions
1.00-1.30 LUNCH Display of resources
Demonstration of the CHSP / Heartstart project website
1.30-2.30 Unit B: Background Knowledge
2.30-3.15 Unit C: Teaching ELS
3.15-3.45 Final assessments
Care of manikins
3.45-4.00 Plenary - On-going support from CHSP
- Questions
- Certificates / Farewells
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PREPARATION |
Schools should contact us as soon as possible so that you can send off for and complete the application to be affiliated to Heartstart UK. Either complete the application before attending training or bring it with you on the day to complete |
PLACES |
20 |
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BOOKING |
Please contact the CHSP administrator for more information and to book a place. Tel: 01209 – 310061 or e mail: healthy.schools@ciospct.cornwall.nhs.uk. |
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MORE INFO |
www.healthpromcornwall.org/Healthy_Schools/Heartstart/ |
