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The GDST family is helping with the national effort by making important PPE for NHS key workers

The GDST family has been doing its bit for the heroic NHS key workers tackling coronavirus on the frontline. Staff and students from across the GDST community have been helping to make all important Personal Protection Equipment for NHS staff who are treating patients with Covid-19.

At Portsmouth High School, Assistant Head and Head of Design Technology, Mr Field is using his workshop to create visors and other PPE to send to local doctors’ surgeries. Meanwhile, a Year 7 student at Howell’s School, Llandaff has helped her father to manufacture and assemble 3D printed visors for the NHS. Seren has used the time when she isn’t completing her guided home learning to help make the visors which are being sent to Intensive Care Units in hospitals.

Girls at Portsmouth High made scrubs bags for NHS workers and students at Shrewsbury High donated safety specs and disposable gloves and aprons. The art department at Croydon High has been using a 3D printer to make safety masks and Mrs Curran, Head of DT at Sydenham High has been making safety visors for local doctors’ surgeries and mental health services.

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Our amazing GDST girls and teachers have been using their design skills to help the NHS. 3D printers at Croydon High that would normally be used for your average DT lesson, are now making safety masks for hospitals. Sydenham's Head of DT and a Year 7 Howell's student and her dad are channelling their skills and efforts into visor making also. It's great to see the community spirit that these unusual times are creating. #Wheregirlslearnwithoutlimits #GDSTfamily #GDSTspirit #guidedhomelearning #tuesdaymotivation #clapforthenhs

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