Design teachers put together 200,000 masks, scrubs and visors

Teachers Kerri Pope (R), Kevin Treen (2R), Richard Martin (2L) and parent Alison Larkin, pose for a photograph wearing safety visors that they have created at Sackville School in East Grinstead (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

Design and technology teachers have made more than 200,000 pieces of protective equipment for frontline NHS workers, new figures reveal.

Data from the Design and Technology Association shows the full extent of visors, goggles, scrubs, masks and other kit teachers have produced.

Tony Ryan, of the Design and Technology Association, said: “I am in awe of the work that has taken place. Our subject is all about designing solutions for human problems, and what bigger challenge has society faced in recent years?”

London is leading the way, with teachers at Merchant Taylors School in Northwood making more than 1,000 protective visors every day.

They will be sent to hospitals including the Royal Free, Chelsea and Westminster, Northwick Park and Mount Vernon, as well as Watford General.

Pinner High School has made 200 face masks which the school donated to local medical centres as well as North London Hospice and Northwick Park Hospital.