This term Post 16 are working on their second diploma which is entitled Society, Health and Development. Both the Post 16 classes work together, all day on Mondays and Fridays. We usually split into three groups and work in the Upper Post 16 Bungalow, Lower Post 16 classroom and the newly equipped diploma room. This now has a washing machine and tumble dryer, we made good use of these during our last diploma on Creative and Media.

We have so far been looking at who looks after us throughout our lives. How to keep ourselves safe both at home and at school, and learning some basic first aid skills. Hopefully we will all get an AQA unit in first aid to show we can do it.

Paul taught us a lesson on fire safety. We all joined together outside in the playground, (luckily it was a nice day). We all had a lot of fun and learnt a great deal.  It was a very good lesson.

                        

We had to sit in a circle. Students could             We got sand and water       

only walk around the outside.                            ready to put out the fire.

 

              

Paul lit the fire. There was lots of                He put the fire out with a fire

smoke.                                                         extinguisher. We all laughed.                                                                   what a lot of smoke!

 

 

    

We all had a go at putting out a flame using sand and water.

 

Next we are moving on to looking at healthy eating and child care. Some of us have already been to the younger classes to read the children a story.

 Click here to see what we have done next in our Diploma