Supporting Children with Asthma

In our mission to support pupils and staff who suffer from asthma, we are on a mission to achieve Asthma Friendly School status. We already have a system that works well in school but are keen to make further improvements and seek advice from working closely with an NHS expert.

"Children with asthma are more likely to be absent from school than those with no health conditions."

Promoting an asthma friendly environment through training and the adoption of asthma focused policies and procedures will ensure that children are safe while they are in school.

We shall be embarking on the process to achieve Asthma Friendly School Status.

• We already have a register of pupils with asthma
• We have appropriate care plans for pupils with asthma
• We have emergency inhalers and spacers in school
• We are creating a new Asthma Policy

Useful Asthma Resources

We have collated a few resources that we think you may find useful to share with your child to help them understand and manage their symptoms. The resources have been designed spread awareness around childhood asthma and how to manage it, supporting children and young people with asthma to live their best lives.

"Asthma should not limit children and young people’s lives in any way."

Asthma friendly schools - Transformation Partners in Health and Care Partnership – this link will take you to the NHS England website for the Asthma Friendly Schools Programme. https://www.transformationpartners.nhs.uk/resource/primary-care-children-young-peoples-toolkit/schools/asthma-friendly-schools/

Beat Asthma

www.beatasthma.co.uk – this website has several useful links under the ‘families and children’ and ‘schools’ sections. The resources are also available in other languages.

Asthmanauts Comic (Transformation Partners in Health and Care)
Aimed at primary school aged children to help them understand their asthma. (PDF attached)

Asthma Operation Ouch (YouTube) Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvzAaIYL43I

The difference between asthma and wheeze in children video:
https://youtu.be/iNPSFal0OIM