Meadow View Primary School has been working in partnership with Broom Valley Medical Centre to promote healthy living and to provide aspiration and inspiration for pupils to consider future employment in the health sector

Broydon Vickerage, Manager of Broom Valley Medical Centre and class teacher Katie Perren have worked together to make the link between education and the NHS and to provide an opportunity for Year 4 children to visit the medical centre to experience different activities which promote keeping healthy.

These have included seeing how to take blood pressure and what to do to keep it low, the dangers of smoking and passive smoking to encourage children not to start smoking and support their parents to stop smoking.

They have also sat in the GPs chair and practiced giving out health advice to patients, to see how it feels to be a GP as well as experiencing first-hand how the office of the GP surgery operates.  The link is growing further each year and Meadow View Primary value the link to work collaboratively with the NHS.  The work has also been recognised by Rotherham’s Healthy Schools where we were recently awarded a Partnership Award in recognition of the collaborative work between Education and Health.

Brydon Vickerage, Manager at Broom Valley Medical Centre, said: "The children learnt so much from the project and the learning has been passed onto their families. The feedback from the school is inspirational and reward in its self to my team.  It was clear the children enjoyed the visits and hopefully this will help them want to stay healthy and understand why it is important and can be fun. 

“This award is credit to Miss Perrin and the school as well as the team at Broom Valley Medical Centre who all worked very hard to grow this idea into a project that the children both loved and learnt so much from.”

Ref:   NHSR12-P30