Events for school staff
We are pleased to run regular events for school staff. The purpose of these sessions is to improve general understanding of food allergy, build staff confidence to manage this medical condition and to share practical tips to help keep pupils safer.
“The presentation was informative and pitched at just the right level. One of the best webinars I have attended.”
Justin Aitken
Health & Safety Manager
Thomas’s London Day Schools
Expert webinar programme:
Top 10 allergy safety checks for your school
Presentation and Q&A with Sarah Knight,
Founder of The Allergy Team and mother to two school-aged boys with multiple food allergies.
Monday 4th September 2023
11 am-12 noon
A presentation and Q&A packed with essential information to help you prepare for the start of another school year and to run through all the essentials for keeping pupils with food allergies as safe as possible.
This webinar will cover managing adrenaline, identification at mealtimes, communicating with families and much more.
If you belong to one of our Member schools, please email us to book your free place. If your school is not a Member school, the session will cost £20 and you can book your place below.
Previous events:
Building a whole school approach and what this means in practice
Building allergy awareness throughout your school is really important to embed best practice, develop robust policies and to keep pupils safer. But what does whole-school awareness really mean, what does it look like and how is it achieved?
This topic was explored in depth, during our presentation and Q&A with James Gardner, Consultant Nurse in Paediatric Allergy and co-founder of The Allergy Team, Sarah Knight.
16th June 2023
Why food allergy matters: supporting your school
The Allergy Team was delighted to deliver this webinar in partnership with Towergate Insurance and The Education Broker.
Allergy is the most common chronic condition in childhood and in school-aged children 20% of allergic reactions happen at school. Managing pupils’ allergies can be challenging: from risk reduction and managing inclusion, to making sure you are fully prepared if you face a serious allergic reaction.
Aimed at senior leaders, this presentation and Q&A gave an overview of what allergy management best practice looks like in schools looks like and how to keep pupils safe.
Our panellist were Sarah Knight, co-founder of The Allergy Team and Professor Adam Fox, Paediatric Consultant in Allergy.
26th April 2023
What schools say about The Allergy Team’s events for staff:
“All schools should be listening to your webinar as it highlighted so well the complexities of dealing with food allergies in schools and yet there is abundant good practice and advice out there to ensure risk is minimised.”
Jenny Pittam
Interim Head of Contract Catering Services, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
“The webinar was a very useful and expert overview of key issues and good practice from which we will take a number of things to help further support our pupils with allergies.”
David Ticker
Headteacher
Newcastle School for Boys
Online drop-in sessions for School Members
Staff from any of our Member Schools are welcome to drop in during one of our online sessions to ask questions, chat about recent experiences or share best practices. The drop-ins are on Zoom and we run them every half term. Please register to let us know you will be dropping in.
