Helping at school- advice please!

[marimba]

Help! My daughter has shopped me to her reception class teacher & told her I'm a doctor. I'm going in to talk to the class as part of their "people who help us" week. I'm having trouble thinking what to say & how to pitch it. Any ideas gratefully received!

When DD was in reception, a doctor parent was lemoned into exactly this!

I've no idea how they pitched the whole session, but the highlight from DD's pov was using loo roll innards as a kind of stethoscope to listen to each other's heartbeats.

Scrubs? They love dressing up!

Taking in some of your kit (stethescope etc). Show them how to use it by getting different children to volunteer to be patients. Then talk generally about how they can help themselves to be healthy.
Children of that age need props and won't sit still for long. Have fun!

A couple of parents who were paramedics brought their ambulance to school!

Obviously you can't do that but they also showed the kids all their equipment and let them have a go with a stethoscope etc.

Yes to showing them how to use stethoscope, thermometer, etc. Choose children to demonstrate on.
Talk about keeping healthy, safety with medicines etc
Take in empty medicine bottles to show and prescription pad, bandages etc. Leave these if you can for children to role play with when you have gone.

When my DD was in reception, I really wished I had a job like yours, instead of an office based, can't really describe to a 5 year old, kind of job! I'd second the idea of bring in any kit you don't mind the children passing around/ playing with.

I think probably better not to take empty medicine bottle in as surely better not to encourage 5yr olds to play with real medicine bottles whether full or empty.

Stethoscope and bandages sound great. The school nurse did something with uv ink and hand washing which my dc all really enjoyed too - and discussion on bugs etc.

And take some x-rays in too!!

Thanks all. Lots of useful ideas. I'm now collecting loo rolls, they're surprisingly effective

You could watch "get well soon" to see the level Dr Ranj pitches at.

I did this am a paediatric nurse. I took in loads of tempadots and got them all to take each other's temperature with them, they loved it. I also got stethoscopes from our clinical skills lab (am a lecturer) and took those in.