STLS3 Help to keep children safe

3.2 Deal with accidents, emergencies and illness

Performance criteria

P1 Remain calm and follow your organisation’s procedures for accidents and emergencies, according to your role and responsibilityI can confirm that I was on playground duty with xxxxx when one of the children fell a short distance from the trim trial onto the protective surface underneath. I can further confirm that throughout the incident, she remained calm and followed the school's accident procedures, in accordance to her role and responsibility, as detailed below.

P2 Call for qualified assistance as appropriate to the incidentxxxxx called me over to ask for my assistance, which I provided by going to get a first aider to assist the injured child, as xxxx is not first aid qualified, and I was still on playground duty.

P3 Maintain the safety of the people involvedxxxx ensured the safety of the other children by advising them not to play in the immediate area around the injured child, so that they would not fall over the child and hurt themselves in the process, or cause further injury to the child involved. xxxx did not try to move the injured child in case this caused any further damage to them.

P4 Provide reassurance and comfort to the people involvedThroughout the incident, xxxx was very sympathetic and supportive, both to the injured child and to the surrounding children. She bent down to the injured child's level and asked the relevant questions to find out where the child was hurt and how they were feeling. She reassured the child that they would be fine, that help was on its way, and gave the child praise for being so brave. The surrounding children, who were worried about the welfare of their friend, were comforted by xxxx's ressurances that their friend was fine and that they should not be worried.

P5 Recognise when children are ill and follow proceduresWhenever xxxx works in my classroom and she is concerned that a child is ill because of certain symptoms they are displaying eg flushed skin or feeling hot, she reports this to a member of staff immediately, outlining her concerns and describing the symptoms she has observed.

On one occasion when a child was still feeling ill after all possibilites were tried eg a cold drink, something to eat, going to the toilet, or quiet time, I asked xxxx to go to the office so that the parents of the child could be contacted to take them home. xxxx did this, and then returned to help the child collect their going home things. xxxx accompianied the child down to the office and stayed with them until they were collected by their parent.

P6 Follow reporting and recording proceduresAs previously mentioned, xxxx is not a qualified first aider, but she is aware of the reporting and recording procedures in place within the school. She knows that all children who visit the first aid station have their name, their class, their symptoms and the treatment they received recorded in the first aid log book. xxxx is also aware that any child who has a visable injury or a head injury is given a "bump note" to take home to their parents which outlines the details of how the injury happened and the treatment they received from the first aider on duty at the time.