Tonight saw two LIVES First Responders visit Ropsley Field Of Dreams. David and Laura who are both first responders in the Grantham area, gave up their own time and volunteer to teach our girls teams Emergency First Aid, Bystander CPR.
Sessions were tailored for the relevant age groups, first up were our U9 and U11 teams they all looked very serious as they concentrated on the instructions given by David and looked as though they really enjoyed the shouting part looking to get a response from the patient. Lots of questions were asked and hopefully all took lots away with them. The second session saw our U13 and U15 teams go a little more in-depth with a bit more information and detail. In between the giggling the girls got to experience carrying out intial checks on each other then got stuck into carrying out chest compressions on the Dummies, no this wasn’t the part where I helped out!
All the girls gained very important life skills tonight, hopefully they will never need to recall them any time in the future, but if they do I hope all the girls now have an idea of what to do in an emergency and have the confidence to make a difference, not only for the patient but for the patients family and friends.
A massive thank you to LIVES for visiting tonight and helping our girls, both David and Laura were really good at delivering the training and engaged all the girls with demonstrations and questions.#RopsleyColtsGirls
