--- title: "Emergency First Aid for Schools in Maidenhead | FAA Approved" description: "Emergency first aid for schools in Maidenhead: one day, about six hours, up to 12 staff, paediatric content included, three-year certificate. Call Aim2Aid today." url: https://www.aim2aid.co.uk/resources/emergency-first-aid-for-schools-maidenhead/ --- Maidenhead # Emergency First Aid for Schools in Maidenhead Aim2Aid First Aid and Fire Safety Training, led by Rebecca Sullivan, brings in-house trainers, manikins and AED trainers to your school. Call 07771 680794 to arrange an INSET or twilight session for your staff team. [Call 07771 680794](tel:07771680794) Aim2Aid Ltd is regarded on the strength of what its customers say publicly, and you can read those reviews for yourself on this site before you book a single date. **At a Glance** - One day, about six hours, up to 12 delegates, with a three-year certificate recognised by the HSE, Ofsted and the DfE. - Paediatric content is included at no extra cost, so staff drill adult, child and infant protocols in the same session. - Delivered face to face at your own school, with a blended option where the theory is completed online first. - First aid courses are accredited by FAIB, mental health courses by FAA, and life-threatening bleed control is trained on every course. Aim2Aid Ltd, 70 Fountain Gardens, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 3SX, company number 16319053, trains school staff across Maidenhead and Berkshire and also provides [aed training services Maidenhead](https://www.aim2aid.co.uk/resources/defibrillator-aed-training-maidenhead/) schools can book alongside this course. Call 07771 680794 to talk through dates, delegate numbers and a free quote for your school. ## Emergency First Aid for Schools Training Emergency first aid for schools is a one day course, about six hours of contact time, taught face to face at your school by an in-house Aim2Aid trainer and certificated for three years. It covers adult and child protocols side by side, so a teaching assistant who deals with a Reception child in the morning and a member of the site team in the afternoon works from one set of drills. The syllabus follows the Emergency First Aid at Work structure at RQF Level 3 and adds the paediatric elements at no extra cost, which is a genuine point of difference in how Aim2Aid builds the day. Delegate numbers are capped at 12 per trainer so every person completes hands-on CPR on a manikin rather than watching. Life-threatening bleed control is now trained on every course we run, including catastrophic bleed management and the correct use of pressure and packing. A blended option is available where the theory is completed online in advance and the practical assessment is delivered at the school. The compliance position is identical: one day of training value, about six hours in total, up to 12 delegates, and the same three-year certificate. - **Level:** RQF Level 3, Emergency First Aid at Work structure with paediatric content included - **Duration:** one day, approximately six hours including breaks and assessment - **Group size:** up to 12 delegates per trainer - **Certificate:** valid three years from the date of assessment - **Delivery:** in person at your premises, or blended with online theory plus practical on site Those numbers matter because they set the ratio of hands to equipment. Twelve delegates is the point at which a single trainer can still observe every chest compression, every recovery position roll and every auto-injector drill. **Call Aim2Aid First Aid and Fire Safety Training on 07771 680794 to book Emergency First Aid for Schools in Maidenhead on your next INSET day, with up to 12 staff trained at your own premises and a free quote before you commit.** [Call Now: 07771 680794](tel:07771680794) ## Why Schools Need This Training A school is a mixed-occupancy site with a shifting population: pupils, staff, visiting contractors, parents at drop-off and spectators at a sports fixture. The Health and Safety Executive expects an employer to assess first aid needs against the actual hazards and headcount of the workplace, and a school assessment almost always returns a higher trained-staff figure than an office of the same floor area, because supervision ratios and off-site trips both consume cover. The clinical picture in a school also differs from an office. Anaphylaxis from a known food allergen, an asthma attack in cold weather on a playing field, a fractured wrist from apparatus, a head injury in a corridor, a febrile seizure in Early Years: these are the presentations staff meet. The course drills each of them against child physiology as well as adult, including compression depth, rescue breath volume and choking technique for an infant, a child and an adult. Duty of care runs alongside safeguarding. A trained responder who can carry out a primary survey, hand over accurate observations to the ambulance service and record what was done gives the school a defensible account of the incident as well as a better clinical outcome. ## Booking a School First Aid Course for Maidenhead Homes Aim2Aid trains across Maidenhead and the wider Berkshire area, and booking is a short sequence rather than a form and a wait. Rebecca Sullivan leads the trainer team directly, so the person planning your date knows what the room needs to hold and what the day will demand of it. ### Step one: scope the group Confirm delegate numbers and split them into cohorts of no more than 12. A primary with 30 staff typically runs three sequential days or two INSET slots plus a twilight cohort. Tell us the mix of teaching, ancillary and site staff, because the ratio changes how much Early Years content we weight into the day. ### Step two: fix the date and the room INSET days, the first week of a half term and twilight sessions after pupils leave are the usual slots. The room needs clear floor space of roughly one square metre per delegate for manikin work, a power socket, and either a hall, a studio or a cleared classroom. Carpet or matting is preferable to bare hard floor for kneeling. ### Step three: confirm records and certificates We take the delegate list in advance so certificates are issued in the correct names, and we return the register and certificates after assessment for your single central record. Expiry dates are three years from assessment, which makes refresher planning straightforward. If you are searching for school first aid training close to home in Maidenhead, our trainers work across the town and the surrounding areas, so a site visit or a firm date is usually a short conversation. ## On-Site Delivery for Staff Teams in Maidenhead All training is delivered at your own premises. Maidenhead sites vary widely, and the building affects the day: the town centre and Grenfell Park area include Victorian and 1920s-30s buildings with narrow stairs, split levels and small halls, while the outskirts have modern buildings on newer estates with wide circulation and a single large space. Both work. The older building simply means we plan manikin stations around the room shape and rehearse the stretcher-free carry and the route a paramedic crew would actually take. We also train nurseries, pre-schools, after-school clubs and independent settings occupying converted houses, including the detached 1950s and 1960s family houses of the kind found on the Chiltern Estate between Maidenhead and Bray. In a converted domestic property the practical work shifts to confined-space CPR, moving furniture before compressions and managing a casualty at the foot of a staircase. Scheduling across the town is straightforward. Maidenhead neighbourhood planning material identifies Belmont and Boyn Hill among the town's unparished wards, and those named areas are the kind of reference points we use when a multi-site trust wants consecutive days without long transfers between them. - Equipment brought to site: adult, child and infant CPR manikins, AED trainers, bandages, dressings, trauma pads and auto-injector trainers - Room requirement: clear floor space, seating for briefings, a socket, and a wall or screen if you want the slide deck - Outdoor sessions: available where the school wants sports field, trip or public-event scenarios rehearsed in situ Kidwells Park has held Green Flag status since 2012, and with Grenfell Park, Braywick Nature Park and Desborough Park all used for school activity, outdoor scenario work is a practical addition for staff who supervise off-site sessions. ## Course Length, Group Size and Timings The day is one day, about six hours, for up to 12 delegates, and it is assessed continuously rather than by written examination alone. A typical shape starts at 09:00 and finishes mid-afternoon, but the block can be moved to fit an INSET timetable or split where a school prefers an early start and an early finish. Longer options exist where a school's needs assessment calls for them: the full First Aid at Work award and the fuller paediatric awards run over more days. For most primary and secondary staff teams the one day emergency course is the compliance backbone, with a proportion of staff holding the longer qualification. - **Contact time:** approximately six hours in one day - **Maximum delegates:** 12 per trainer - **Assessment:** continuous practical observation across the session - **Refresher cycle:** re-qualify before the three-year expiry date ## Accreditation, Compliance and Certificates Our first aid courses are accredited by FAIB. Our mental health courses are accredited by FAA. The distinction is deliberate and we keep the two separate on every certificate we issue. Certification runs for three years and is recognised by the HSE, Ofsted and the DfE, which is the combination a school inspection file needs. Trainers are in-house and never outsourced. Rebecca leads the team and holds the standard across every session, so the content, the assessment criteria and the paperwork are the same whichever trainer walks into your hall. Between them the team carries over 50 years of combined experience. Certificates are issued in the delegate's name with the qualification title, the awarding body and the expiry date, ready to be filed against your single central record and produced on request. ## Course Content and Practical Skills The syllabus is practical first and theoretical second, on the basis that a member of staff in an emergency reproduces what their hands have already done. - Role of the first aider, scene safety, infection control and accident recording - Primary survey and secondary survey, including the recovery position for adults and children - CPR on adult, child and infant manikins, with correct compression depth and rate for each - Safe use of an AED, including pad placement for a small child and shockable versus non-shockable rhythms - Choking in an adult, a child and an infant, with back blows and abdominal or chest thrusts as appropriate - Catastrophic and life-threatening bleed control, wound packing, direct pressure and shock management - Asthma, anaphylaxis and auto-injector use, seizures, diabetic emergencies and febrile convulsions - Burns and scalds, fractures, sprains, head and spinal injury recognition, and handover to the ambulance service AED familiarity is worth singling out, because a defibrillator on the wall is only useful if staff will take it off the bracket without hesitating. That skill is reinforced in more depth on our dedicated defibrillator training for schools and workplaces across the town. Every delegate leaves having performed each core skill under observation. That is the point of capping the group at 12 and bringing enough manikins for the room. **Call Aim2Aid First Aid and Fire Safety Training on 07771 680794 to book Emergency First Aid for Schools in Maidenhead on your next INSET day, with up to 12 staff trained at your own premises and a free quote before you commit.** [Call Now: 07771 680794](tel:07771680794) ## People Also Ask: Emergency First Aid for Schools in Maidenhead ### Do schools need first aiders? Yes. Every employer, including a school, must assess its first aid needs and provide adequate trained cover for staff, and in practice schools extend that provision to pupils and visitors as part of their duty of care. The Health and Safety Executive expects that assessment to reflect the real hazards and headcount of the site, which in a school means playgrounds, sports, practical subjects, trips and supervision ratios. ### How much is an emergency first aid course? Cost depends on delegate numbers and how many cohorts you need, since we cap groups at 12 per trainer. Call 07771 680794 with your staff numbers and preferred dates and we will give you a free quote for the whole team. ### Are first aiders legally protected? A trained first aider acting in good faith and within the limits of their training is in a far stronger position than an untrained bystander, which is one reason schools keep certification current on a three-year cycle and record who holds what. ### Can you deliver the course at our school in Maidenhead rather than at a venue? Yes. All Aim2Aid training is delivered at your own premises across Maidenhead and Berkshire, whether that is a Victorian building near the town centre or a modern school on one of the newer estates on the outskirts. ### Will the training work in an older or awkwardly shaped building in Maidenhead? It will. The town centre and Grenfell Park area include Victorian and 1920s-30s buildings with smaller halls and split levels, and we plan manikin stations, casualty handling and evacuation routes around the space you actually have. ### Can you train staff across several Maidenhead sites on consecutive days? Yes. Named areas such as Belmont and Boyn Hill are the kind of reference points we use to plan consecutive cohorts across the town, so a trust or federation can train everyone without long transfers between sites.