Back to School
How are you? No really, how are you? Because life has been a bit strange over the last few months. Life as we knew it changed very quickly. What did you miss the most? I missed long walks at the beach. 2020 has brought us more than just a global pandemic, including...
Tomlinscote Time to Talk Senior School, Frimley
I am the named School Nurse for Tomlinscote Senior School. I provide a monthly lunchtime drop in session for the student as well as seeing people on a 1:1 basis when required. As a team we try and support our local senior schools with lunchtime health promotion stands...
Coronavirus: Where to find help and support
What is it? Coronavirus is a new illness that can affect your lungs and airways. It’s caused by a virus called ‘COVID-19’. What are the symptoms? Almost everyone who gets Coronavirus gets a fever, a cough or both. Most of the people who get a fever get tired. A lot of...
National Sleep Day
Whether you love to sleep (like my dog!) or prefer to stay up all night, sleep is important to our emotional and physical health. So, given it was World Sleep Day on Friday 13th March we thought we would look at why sleep is important. It is organized by...
End of term, end of the year
Wow, where did that term go!It has been a busy term; we hope that those of you that have started a new school have settled in well. The school nurses have been into lots of schools and met the new year 7’s, if we haven’t been into your school yet then look...
Movember
The school nurses in Surrey Health have been in three secondary schools throughout November running the ‘Movember’ public health campaign. It is widely acknowledged that males are not so happy to discuss their health and are less likely to seek medical...
Anti Bullying Week
Anti-Bullying Week is organised by The Anti-Bullying Alliance and happens in schools every November. This year's Anti-Bullying Week has the theme Change Starts With Us and is happening from Monday 11 November to Friday 15 November 2019.This year the...
National Stress Awareness Day
National Stress Awareness Day! 7th November 2019It’s national stress awareness day so today we want to talk about all things stress, what can make you feel stressed, how that can affect your health and how you can help yourself.Stress is something that affects...
Breast Cancer Awareness month
Did you go pink for Breast Cancer Awareness month in October? The School Nurses were out in schools making us all aware and also educating us about breast cancer awareness. This year, 55,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and this is why...
World Mental Health day
During World Mental Health Day on the 10th October, we were busy out and about supporting it.Young Minds encouraged us to wear yellow on the day to raise awareness and let people know that they are not on their own. It was great to see the many tweets and...