FACING UP As the shortage of PPE became apparent during the early weeks of the first lock down, Head of Design and Technology Martin Scouse had the inspired idea of creating face shields using the laser cutter lent to School by Oakham School. With the help of the nimble fingered McGowan family, the team set to work isolating separately in the adjacent DT and Art rooms. In total, 735 face shields were made and delivered to grateful recipients at Milton Keynes Accident & Emergency and intensive care, Caroline Cares for You in Brackley, A2 Dominion Housing Group in Oxford, Katharine House Hospice in Adderbury, Deddington Pharmacy, Juniper House Care Home, Brackley Fields Country House Care Home, Springfield Surgery, Washington House Surgery and Health Centre all in Brackley, Chacombe Park
Left: Freddie (Year 8) hard at work.
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Martin Scouse (above left), Shelley and Craig Irvine (above), Suzanne Gray (below) and her son Daniel (below right).
Care Home, Southerndown Nursing Home in Chipping Norton, the Bridge House Medical Centre in Stratford, three surgeries in Aylesbury, the John Radcliffe Hospital, Helen & Douglas House in Oxford, Wardington House, The Brook Health Centre in Towcester, Silson Surgery in Silverstone, the Oxon County temporary mortuary at Heyford Air Base, the Brodie Centre at the Horton Hospital in Banbury, the Cropredy Surgery and the Green Pastures Christian Care Home in Banbury. Distribution was secured with the help of Suzanne Gray (whose son Dan is an A&E nurse at Milton Keynes Hospital), Craig Irvine and Warren Silman. Messages of thank you came from many of the recipients with photos showing the WHS face shields being worn. Alumna Freddie Palmer (2020) continued the campaign, making laundry bags for NHS staffs’ scrubs and uniforms.
