First Aid for Schools

Course - First Aid for Schools (including Anaphylaxis (Epipen®) Training) for Inset Days

Running a whole school inset day first aid training course is a great team building day.  Your staff learn or refresh their first aid skills which is always a great confidence boost.  With allergies on the increase and as many children have now been prescribed adrenalin auto-injectors this course also covers the required content for staff to be trained to deliver these injections when necessary.

Everyone will receive an attendance certificate in First Aid for Schools (inc. Anaphylaxis Training) which is valid for 3 years.

Course Timings

Ideally the course runs from 0930 - 1530 to give us 6 hours.  However if you would like the course to fit around your existing school day structure just send us the timings that you require and we will be able to adapt the course to fit your day.

Course Content

• Incident Management – a systematic approach to managing first aid incidents and assessing casualties
• Safe Airway Position
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) - Adult & Child
• Choking - Adult & Child
• Bleeding 
• Asthma and Epliepsy
• Anaphylaxis awareness and use of adrenalin auto-injectors

If there is additional content that you would like to cover please give the office a call to discuss.  There is a limit to what can be taught in a day when our focus is practical training to ensure that everyone leaves with new skills.  For example you may have an AED (defibrillator) on the premises and would like certain staff to receive additional training.

Booking a Course

We run in-house training at your venue for groups of up to 20 per instructor.  We can teach larger courses with multiple instructors. You simply need a room large enough to not only seat everyone but also to allow them to lie on the floor and be rolled around without bumping into furniture or each other.  Ask about organising a course for your group >>

Happy Customers

"I just wanted to say a huge thank you for the excellent First Aid training you gave us last week on our Inset day. I have had so many comments from the staff about the day; how enjoyable it was, how much they learnt and how useful it was. The repetitive element, building up of the skills gradually, has really stuck in people''s minds, particularly the ''STOP. ASSESS'' (combined with the hands out!)It was also lovely to be spoken to as intelligent adults; so many trainers pitch this wrongly.Thanks again for an enjoyable and informative day."

Lucy Pike, Teacher, Ravenscourt Park Prep School

Course - Anaphylaxis & Adrenalin Auto-injector (Epipen®) Training Course

This 3 hour course is designed for teachers, group leaders, carers or anyone else who needs training in how and when to use an auto injector. Workplace first aiders who have to deal with those prone to anaphylaxis should also attend.

With 40% of children now suffering from allergies, the ability to understand allergic conditions, and deal with sudden or severe symptoms is fast becoming an essential part of childcare.

Course Timings

This is a 3 hour course which can be run at any time of day to suit you.

Course Content

• recognition and treatment of severe allergic reaction
• communication and casualty care
• dealing with an unconscious casualty
• different types of auto-injector –  EpiPen®, Anapen®, Jext® pen
• correct use of an adrenalin auto-injector
• CPR resuscitation – adult and child

Booking a Course

We run in-house training at your venue for groups of up to 12 per instructor.  We can teach larger courses with multiple instructors. You simply need a room large enough to not only seat everyone but also to allow them to lie on the floor and be rolled around without bumping into furniture or each other.  Ask about organising a course for your group >>

Course - Emergency Life Support for Children & Students (Yr 4 - Yr 13)

When someone is having a heart attack, has serious bleeding, choking, is unconscious or in cardiac arrest, knowing what to do to help keep them alive until professional help arrives can give their chances of survival a significant boost. The skills you need for this are called Emergency Life Support skills, or ELS.

Children of all ages should learn first aid.  It is such an important life skill to have and the practical nature of first aid training means that the course is always a bit hit with the children and a really fun day.

According to the British Heart Foundation: "CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), taught in schools as part of ELS, might double a casualty’s chances of survival from a cardiac arrest."  Ref: http://www.bhf.org.uk/get-involved/campaigning/emergency-life-support-skills.aspx

Course Timings

The course takes a full school day and will fit around your standard break and lunchtimes.

Course Content

• Managing an incident safely
• Calling 999
• Rolling an adult or child into the recovery position
• Performing resuscitation on an adult
• Treating an adult or child who is choking
• Stopping a bleed and putting bandages on

Booking a Course

We can run in-house training at your venue for groups of up to 15 per instructor.  You simply need a room large enough to not only seat everyone but also to allow them to lie on the floor and be rolled around without bumping into furniture or each other.  Ask about organising a course for your group >>

Course - 12hr Early Years Paediatric First Aid (Ofsted)

This course is ideal for primary and nursery school teachers, child minders and child careers. It is a highly practical and fun course which:

• meets the criteria defined for first aid training in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework
• meets Ofsted first aid requirements for registered childminders and the requirements for first aid for nannies under the Department for Children, Schools and Families Approved Carers Scheme.
• can be used as evidence for employees working towards an NVQ in Childcare and Education.
• follows the guidelines of and was approved by the NCMA (National Child Minding Association) and the PLA (Pre-school Learning Alliance) until July 2005 (NCMA & PLA no longer validate training organisations). 

All attendees will leave with both a full set of paediatric first aid skills and the confidence to put them into practise should the need ever arise.

Certificates are valid for 3 years.  There are no pre-requisites to attend this course.

Course Content

• A systematic approach to incident management
• Infant, Child and Adult Resuscitation procedures
• Choking
• Bleeding - internal/external, major/minor
• Shock - hypovolemic and anaphylactic
• Hypothermia and hyperthermia
• Febrile convulsions
• Treating Damage - suspected fractures, head, neck and back injuries
• Eye injuries and foreign bodies in eyes, ears and noses
• Bites and stings
• Poisoning
• Burns and scalds
• Electric shock
• Common illness - epilepsy, asthma, sickle cell anaemia, diabetes

Booking a Course

We can run in-house training at your venue for groups of up to 12 per instructor.  You simply need a room large enough to not only seat everyone but also to allow them to lie on the floor and be rolled around without bumping into furniture or each other.  Ask about organising a course for your group >>

Happy Customers

"All staff have found this extremely useful, covering all aspects of the necessary statutory requirements alongside supporting the staff to feel secure in adminstering Basic First Aid if it is required.  The course covered all aspects in a clear and encouraging manner, guiding less confident staff members. " Gina Nicolson, Kew Green Preparatory School

Cost

Visit our Prices Page for a full list of course prices and to download a price list.

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