SCHOOL NEWS: Lady with the Lamp

CHILDREN at Greenfylde First School in Ilminster have been delving into the history books and learning more about Britain’s most famous nurse – Florence Nightingale.

The children learned about her job as a nurse and investigated what the hospitals would have been like for the nurses and soldiers during the Crimean War in the 1850s.

She became known as the Lady with the Lamp because of the way she would wander the hospital wards at night to keep an eye on her patients.

PHOTO – TOP: A pupil gets checked over by a visiting nurse.

PHOTO – RIGHT: Florence Nightingale.

One class was also lucky enough to have a visit from one of the pupil’s parents who works as a nurse locally.

The children were able to ask questions to find out about modern nursing and why and how she had decided to train to be a nurse.

They did observational drawings to compare the clothes modern nurses wear with those Florence Nightingale wore and had fun hearing through her stethoscope and practising bandaging each other too!

PHOTO - ABOVE: Pupils learn more about nursing.

PHOTOS - ABOVE: Some pictures of nurses drawn by Greenfylde First School pupils.

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