Trauma Teddies get to work

Central State Primary School’s Year Five class learned valuable lessons in love, leadership and generosity presenting the results of their inaugural Trauma Teddies project to emergency services and front-line children’s services workers last week.

The students from Karyn Marxsen and Grant Price’s year five classes were sponsored by five local businesses to create and dress “Trauma Teddies” – plush toys which are given to children who find themselves sick or in an emergency or any other situation where they are “going through a bit of a tough time.”

The idea behind the toys is to distract children from the trauma and worry of a car accident, a house fire, a lost pet or any other stressful emergency, and to enable them to remain calm and comforted.