Restart a Heart Day 2022
On Friday the 14th October all of Year 7 learned CPR as part of their “Year 8 Be Safe and Healthy Day”. They joined millions of children up and down the country who also took part in Restart a Heart Day.
CPR is now part of the health education curriculum for secondary school pupils aged 12 and over in England. The workshops were taught by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service, which has already provided life-saving training to more than 250,000 young people since they started their Restart a Heart campaign in 2014.
The workshops taught pupils how to identify whether someone is in cardiac arrest (has collapsed and stopped breathing normally) and how to perform hands-only chest compressions to give the person their best chance of survival before the arrival of an ambulance.
As 80% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in the home, you can be reassured that they will be learning skills that may one day help someone close to them.
