First Aid... 4th April

On 4^th April we had our first aid training course this last for 3 hours and it started at 13:00 and ended at 16:00. We all passed the first aid training and this lasts for 3 years. We all learned what to do in case there is an accident whilst in Prague. The whole of the group took part in the first aid course except Lauren who already has a first aid certificate.



Checking for Blaise’s breathing before
putting her into recovery position



During the first aid training we learnt a lot of different things the first thing which we learnt was how to put someone in the recovery position if they were unconscious. We had to follow a procedure which is called DR. ABC which means *Danger, Response, Airways, Breathing and Compression* This is what we must follow when we check to see if someone is conscious before putting them in the recovery position. Once we knew how to put someone in recovery position we took it in turns to try it out on each other.

If the person who was unconscious was not breathing then we then have to do compression/CPR on them. This is were we have to do 30 compressions for every 2 breaths each of these breaths must last for 4 seconds. We must keep repeating this and not stop unless the ambulance arrives, you can’t do it anymore or the person starts to breathe again.

This is a picture of me trying to do
CPR on a dummy

We then tried this on all on dummies and had to keep repeating it until Ross (Our trainer) told us to stop. We had to keep going and it really tired you out. I didn’t realise how hard it would be but it was a good to learn. After we learnt how to do the recovery position and CPR we then went on to learn how to apply a bandage to stop heavy bleeding and how to stop someone from choking.

This is all we learnt and after we all took part in a Q & A session to see if everyone remembered everything.

Cake Stall 1st April.....

Today we did our second fundraiser for Prague and did a cake stall. Everyone in the class had to make lots of different cakes we had so many!! We had chocolate cakes, cupcakes, crispy cakes, muffins, cookies and lots more. We sold all the cakes at all different prices the most being £1.50 and these looked so nice!! These are the cakes which i made.

As a group we all took it in turns to serve different people. Some people were handling the cakes and others where given people their change. When the stall wasn’t very busy Kaleigh, Lorna, Kristy, Blaise, Ross and Gemma went round the college to different rooms and offices to see if anyone wanted to buy any. We started the cakes stall at 09:00 and had sold out by 12:30. At 12:30 we still had some cakes left over and we lowered the prices of these to sell them all.

Once all the cakes were sold we counted the money to see how much was raised for our trip. Once this was done Lorna and Kaleigh went to the finance department to bank the money.

Today was such a successful day and we made a lot of money more than we thought we would with a total of £136.32. This added to the fundraiser we did at Christmas came to £206.  

These two fundraisers have been very successful and our next one will be on 6^th May with a car wash!!!

That’s all for now

Speak to you later.