Pollards Optical Clinic has just become part of the Eye Know Eye Care scheme. This Scheme, in association with the National Schools Partnership, has been created specifically for Key Stage 2 Children and aims to bring teachers and eyecare professionals together to improve knowledge of eye health in an innovation and fun way for children.
Schools currently do not have a national scheme in place to monitor the eye sight of school age children. As a result, the importance of healthy eye sight is often not being explained to children and their parents as it should. The Eye Know Eye Care scheme is a fantastic opportunity to resolve this issue.
A recent survey of 1,000 parents revealed that more than nine-in-10 parents (91%) said they take their child to have their hair cut at least once a year, with a similar proportion (89%) saying they go shopping for shoes this often. Less than half of parents asked (45%) said they take their child for an eye test at least once a year.
Rowena Ibbotson, Optometrist at Pollards, will be going into local schools and presenting to a classes / assemblies on the importance of eye care. As an Eye Know Eye Care registered optician, we have a short interactive presentation and additional materials such as games to involve the children.
Last year, around 10 local schools invited us to present in their assembly, with the question & answer session being the most interesting!
Rowena comments, “As health professionals we are finding more and more children that are falling behind in school simply due to a simple eye problem – sometimes glasses can correct this, or even eye exercises.”
To book us for your school or go get more information, please call us on (01924) 373697