Schools awareness

Schools awareness programme

Epilepsy Society provides a series of schools programmes to help raise awareness of epilepsy among school children of all ages. Our aim is to help young people with epilepsy enjoy a full life by improving the wider understanding of the condition.

We have two programmes for you to choose from:

•  You can arrange for a representative from Epilepsy Society to come to your school and deliver a comprehensive, interactive presentation about the condition
• Or you can download a complete lesson programme with activities and support notes for teachers to deliver themselves in the classroom.

We also have schools guidance notes which look at how best to support a child with epilepsy in a school environment.

School visit

Our programmes cater for children of all ages, providing FREE interactive presentations and activities for PSHE, citizenship, tutor time, general classroom time and assemblies.

Children respond well to outside visitors to their school. We have designed programmes we can deliver to KS2 - Key Stage 2 - (years 3 to 6) and KS3 (years 7 and 8). These programmes, presented by specially trained representatives from Epilepsy Society, can be adapted to suit the requirements of the school or for younger or older pupils. You can arrange a schools visit by contacting our regional services.

 'In KS3 we have several pupils with epilepsy but few incidents of bullying because this programme has been running for a few years.' 
Chalfont Community College 2011

Downloadable lesson plan

We have a complete downloadable lesson plan for teachers to deliver including activities and supporting notes about epilepsy. At the moment our lesson plan is written specifically for KS2, years 3 to 4 (ages 7-9) but more programmes are to follow shortly for KS2, years 5-6 (ages 10-11 years) and KS3, years 7 to 8 (ages 11-13 years).

Awareness raising for teachers and staff

As well as talking to school pupils we also provide FREE epilepsy awareness raising sessions for teachers and staff. These include basic first aid for epilepsy and are available through our regional services. For training in emergency medication and seizure management, please contact our training services.