05 Nov 2018
Every year Liverpool Hospital School together with our Paediatric Team celebrate Children's Week in the Paediatric Ward.
This year we chose 5 rights from the United Nation's Rights of the Child to create themes for each day of Children's Week.
On the Monday we celebrated the child's right to speak with a movie theme dress-up; nurses fashion parade (costumes designed by our patients/students) and a debate nurses vs students on cyber-safety topics.
Tuesday was the right to be healthy where the Dental Team and the Healthy Lunchbox program visited our school and educated our families on oral hygiene and how to choose healthy options for their lunchbox. There was also a blind taste-testing competition with nursing staff and patients which was won by two student doctors.
On Wednesday we celebrated the right to play with a community BBQ and visits from the Active Kids program, Go4Fun, our Police Youth Liaison Officers and a performance from Liverpool Boys High School.
Thursday was the child's right to discover where we ran a program on self-discovery and Friday was the child's right to be safe where we painted the ward red to acknowledge the Day for Daniel Morcombe as well as educate on cyber-safety with our Police Youth Liaison Officers in attendance. It was a fantastic week full of positive experiences for the entire Paediatric Ward.