Highbridge’s King Alfred School Academy and Worle Community School Academy have teamed up to produce scrubs for local NHS staff to protect them in their Covid-19 work.
Scrubs are the sanitary clothing worn by surgeons, nurses, physicians and other workers involved in patient care in hospitals.
Schools in the Priory Learning Trust have already made thousands of masks for health workers across the area, with the support of donating local businesses. Now, thanks to the generosity of local residents, they are making scrubs as a further help.
A local family donated fabric to teachers Caroline Bullock at King Alfred School Academy and Tina Burrows at Worle Community School Academy.
They organised a dedicated team of staff and other volunteers who got to work straight away with their their sewing machines to address the shortage of PPE.
The donor says: “We are very aware of the wonderful work that the staff do and wanted to help in any way we can. Having to stay indoors while so many people need help has been very difficult for us. We heard that staff were making scrubs and running low on fabric so we ordered as much as we could.”
Neville Coles, Executive Principal of TPLT, said: “This is tremendous news. Our students and staff, together with people and businesses in the community, have responded quickly and swiftly to help the NHS in any way they can.”
Students aged 11-14 and staff have been making hundreds of face masks every day for weeks at Priory Community School Academy (PCSA), Worle Community School Academy and The King Alfred School Academy (TKASA). They are being given to local doctors in the Burnham-On-Sea area, plus Weston General Hospital, Musgrove Hospital in Taunton, and the Children’s Hospice South West.
