THOUSANDS of school children across York and North Yorkshire are set to learn vital life-saving skills in class today.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service is marking Restart a Heart Day (October 14) with many events designed to improve cardiac arrest survival rates.

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The service will today visit 136 secondary schools to provide CPR training to more than 30,000 students including 27 in North Yorkshire:

• All Saints RC School, York

• Barlby High School, Barlby

• Bedale High School, Bedale

• Bootham School, York

• Boroughbdrige High School, Boroughbridge

• Caedmon College, Whitby

• Cundall Manor School, Cundall

• Fulford School, York

• Harrogate High School, Harrogate

• Huntington School, York

• Malton School, Malton

• Northallerton School and Sixth Form College, Northallerton

• Norton College, Norton

• Queen Ethelburga's Collegiate, York

• Queen Margaret's School, York

• Queen Mary's School, Topcliffe

• Read School, Selby

• Richmond School and Sixth Form College, Richmond

• Ripon Grammar, Ripon

• Risedale School, Catterick Garrison

• Saint Francis Xavier School, Richmond

• Scalby School, Scarborough

• Scarborough University Technical College, Scarborough

• Selby High School, Selby

• Settle College, Settle

• Sherburn High School, Sherburn in Elmet

• Skipton Girls' High School, Skipton

• Stokesley School, Stokesley

• The Holy Family High School, Carlton

• The Skipton Academy, Skipton

• The Wensleydale School and Sixth Form, Leyburn

• Thirsk School and Sixth Form College, Thirsk

• York High School, York

 

A spokesman for the service said: "Since we launched our Restart a Heart campaign in 2014, bystander CPR rates in Yorkshire have increased from 39.9% in 2014 to 74.9% this year.

"Yorkshire’s top 10 football clubs are also helping spreading the message about the importance of CPR and a representative from Harrogate Town will be visiting Harrogate High School on Restart a Heart Day.

"The club will be promoting the importance of CPR at its home game on Saturday (October 15) versus Hartlepool United and is also launching a community public access defibrillator near its shop and ticket office on Commercial Street, Harrogate."