Harvey Road School has been presented with a defibrillator after a series of generous donations ended a year-long fundraising campaign.
Staff took part in a training session by SADS UK, who also supplied the defibrillator, to learn how to use the life-saving device.
Last May the school carried out a fun run to raise money to purchase a defibrillator and since then the student body has carried out various activities to add to this amount.
The rest of the £1,600 cost was met by a charity set up by Brenda and Barrie Irons who lost their son, aged 13, to Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome and St Albans-based KDW Financial services.
School secretary Clare Wallis took part in the training.
She said: "It was brilliant training. If you were ever in the situation and having to use the defibrillator, I am sure the training would kick in.
"The machines are so simple and it was good to see how you couldn’t really go wrong when using them.
"It was really good."
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