Class act! Teacher makes face masks for frontline workers
A TEACHER is making protective face shields for NHS staff and frontline workers in a school’s technology department.
Engineering teacher Stuart Peet has spent the last week making the parts with the 3D printer at Ashton-on-Mersey High School in Sale.
Stuart then takes the sections back to his home to construct into masks to protect NHS staff during the coronavirus crisis.
He has created the mask based on a design which originated in Spain and has tweaked it slightly with the help of experts from NHS Stockport.
Another three teachers from the Dean Trust have joined Stuart and the team have the ability to make four masks every five minutes.
They started production on March 30, with a number of masks having already been delivered to NHS workers in Stockport.
The team are now making masks to be delivered to district nurses, care homes and NHS staff in Trafford.
Stuart told the M.E.N.: “We started doing it last Monday and it has been non-stop since.
“I am an engineering teacher at Ashton and I also teach science.
“It is sad we don’t have the access to the children right now and can’t teach them. We have got this worldwide crisis. I have got to help some how.
“We didn’t want to just go off and do something, we checked with Stockport NHS what they wanted first. It was a call of conscience - if you can help, you can fight back and do something about it.”
Stuart is now starting to run out of materials and in particular needs elastic and polypropylene. He has left a box outside the school’s reception, on Cecil Avenue, for anybody who may be able to make a donation.
Viaduct Care, the GP Federation for Stockport, tweeted an image of two members of staff wearing the shields. The message said: “Huge thanks to Ashton on Mersey School who delivered to us 14 3D printed face shields to keep our teams safe.”