PRIMARY Sessions Menu
Sessions are 45-50 mins.
| Session | Description | Suitability | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horrid Hands | Have you got Horrid Hands? Help your students to stop the spread of illnesses and become germ-busters. This interactive and engaging session is tailored for Year 1 – Year 6 and can be taught in a classroom setting or as an assembly to whole year groups. The session includes opportunities for children to build on their existing knowledge of germs and areas of the science curriculum. An experiment will demonstrate how rapidly and easily germs are spread- there will also be suggestions for further classroom experiments. They will learn the science behind snot and easy habits they can adopt to keep themselves safe and those around them. Students will also learn about the role of vaccines and how they are administered to keep us as healthy as possible. Primary National curriculum links Science Living Things and their Habitats Animals, Including Humans Citizenship Developing a Healthy, Safer Lifestyle | KS1 & 2 | ||
| NHS Superheroes | Do you know your NHS superheroes? Our interactive “NHS Superheroes” lesson will explore a variety of clinical and non-clinical roles in the NHS. Students will learn how these roles help patients even if they never encounter the patients they are helping…secret superheroes! During the lesson, students will follow a patient and their family on their journey. They will be able to draw inferences about characters’ feelings and make predictions regarding the plotline. Students will be able to demonstrate their deeper understanding of the wide variety of roles within the NHS by choosing their own NHS superhero and composing a short explanation of the impact they have on patients. Appropriate use of conjunctions and adverbial phrases will be highlighted and encouraged whilst they children are composing their postcard. The finished postcards can be easily displayed in the classroom or used for further discussions between teachers and students. National Curriculum links KS2 – Literacy Reading- Comprehension drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence predicting what might happen from details stated and implied Writing- Composition discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar discussing and recording ideas proof reading and reading aloud their own writing to a group or the whole class Writing- Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause using commas after fronted adverbials | KS2 | ||
| Meet the NHS Architects | Practical curriculum related task (liaison with subject lead required) – NHS Chef Guest Speaker Talk and creative task. – Work with our NHS Architects – what do they do? – In-school competition (optional) – Explore jobs/routes within this field | KS2 | ||
| PSHE | Who’s more important in the NHS? Students look at 9 different NHS jobs roles and are asked to order their importance. Through discussion students are challenged to explore why they ordered them as they did, then look at a variety of scenerios and see if their initial thoughts still stand. | KS2 | ||
| First Aid (RSE Curriculum) | In partnership with the following, we can offer First Aid training that meets the statutory guidance within the RSE curriculum.    – CPR – Practical – Defibrillator training – Practical – Difference between Heart Attack/ Cardiac Arrest – Paramedicine students – University of Portsmouth – Trained Paramedics/South Coast Ambulance Service staff | KS1 & 2 | ||