Talk From The Irish Heart Foundation

Last Week, all the TY's came together in the Demo room to get an information and an awareness talk from a representative from The Irish Heart Foundation. It was a very educational forty minutes, during which we were informed about the work of the organisation and told good tips to keep our hearts healthy. We also found out about different heart problems and ways to help them. It was very interesting to learn all this especially after we all got to take part in the CPR programme, which was also liked to The Irish Heart Foundation.

It was very interesting and shocking to find out that approximately 10,000 people die from coronary heart diseases and stroke each year and that 36% of all deaths in Ireland are related to circulatory diseases.

Ellie :) x

CPR 4 Schools Programme

The Irish Heart Foundation gave our school a free class set of CPR dummies so that we could learn the skill of saving someones life. During our double P.E. class we learnt how to do CPR and mouth to mouth exercises. We watched a video of a lady telling us what to do and then we each had to practice it on our own dummies called " Mini Anne ".

It was great fun learning how to do CPR and it was also funny as we all tried to do it on our own dummies. We each got to bring home our dummies and we have to teach our families to do CPR by watching the video that came in each CPR box. So not only have we learnt the CPR skill but our families have as well.

Many thanks to the Irish Heart Foundation for allowing us to learn this valuable skill.

Get more information on the CPR 4 Schools Programme here.

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Emma Murphy :)