On Thursday 6th March eleven students from Grades 10 to 13 had the opportunity to learn Basic First Aid and CPR. The day involved learning about how to manage emergency situations and provide a first aid response to a casualty. It covered common first aid injuries and illnesses such as choking, allergic responses, asthma, heart attacks and external bleeding. Students learnt about the recovery positions and how to use the defibrillator on an unconscious, non-breathing casualty.

Once they had learnt the theory, they got to put the skills into practice on each other and CPR mannequins.

A very big thank you goes to Julie Howard and Josie Chester who organised the grant application for the funding of this event. Thank you to MAIB for funding and seeing the positives this training has for our students. Thank you to Josie for purchasing morning tea and lunch of donuts, sausage rolls, pies and sandwiches with bottles of water. They were very well received.

Thank you, Roxy, the St Johns trainer who spent the day with the students, teaching them basic first aid and CPR.

Jill Bennett

AST