CHILDREN at Woodland Primary School have been learning basic life-saving skills even before it becomes part of the curriculum.
Medical staff from County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust provided the essential first aid skills session to the whole school last week.
Trainee nurse Melissa Davison said the children were taught how do deal with a person who is choking, how to resuscitate a person, how to use a defibrillator and how to place a person in the recovery position during the two-hour long session.
School office manager Katrina Scanlon said: “It is coming into the curriculum and it is going to be compulsory.
“It is a great thing for the children to know. In Scandinavian countries the survival rate is much better than in England because the children are taught life-saving skills from the age of four.”
