DALTON students have learnt life-saving skills by joining forces with community heroes.

Dowdales School supported the Restart a Heart Day 2017 campaign to help create the next generation of lifesavers.

Restart a Heart Day is a UK wide initiative which aims to train at least 200,000 secondary school students up and down the country in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills.

The event is delivered through a partnership with The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Resuscitation Council UK, British Heart Foundation and local fire services.

The Restart a Heart team who led the life-saving lessons includes paramedics, nurses, first responders and PCSOs.

The life-saving lesson will teach pupils how to recognise a cardiac arrest and how to provide urgent help by doing effective CPR.

The Dowdales School community said they are extremely proud to be a part of such a worthwhile campaign.