A few weeks ago, before work experience started, the TYs went to the school library and took part in a First Aid Workshop. It was a Wednesday and TYs have no classes scheduled for Wednesdays so we usually have an activity that day. All of class Lagarde gathered in the library were greeted by our First Aid instructor Gary. I think it's safe to say that he was extremely 'punny'. For example, he was introducing himself when my friend Lauren suddenly screamed to me "there's a massive spider on your head!" She whacked me over the head and the spider fell into the middle of the circle we were sitting in. Gary picked it up wuth a piece of paper and put it outside. He came back in and said "I don't know how to give CPR to a spider but you can look it up in a web.." The whole class laughed and he kept on saying puns throughout the whole workshop. -_-
We learned lots of really helpful things from 'Gaz'. He taught us CPR on dummies and how to put people in the recovery position. It was really helpful because we learned how to react in dangerous situations like if someone is choking like a person, baby or even yourself, we now know what we need to do.It was particularly helpful for me as I have two godchildren who are younger than 1 so I babysit them a lot and I am more confident knowing that I can trust myself to react in dangerous situations. I think it was really helpful and I personally think that every TY year should do this because it gives you more confidence.
On Friday 16th October Salesians College journeyed to our school hall for an exciting Maths Quiz! We started our Friday morning normally by going to class and having our break. We were supposed to go to the hall to help set up but I was in my own world and forgot. I went to Irish class with Lauren and sat there wondering where everyone was and then realised that the whole of TY was down in the hall. We carried tables and chairs into the hall and assorted them into 16 groups of four students. Each table would have two girls and two boys. When the boys arrived we were all given a sheet that would be the icebreaker. Then we lined up girls on one side and boys on the other. We were given numbers and we had to match our groups together. At first when the two boys introduced themselves it was really awkward and I didn't know what to do... But then thank god they started handing out the sheets with the maths questions on them so I could just keep my head down, do the sum and avoid eye-contact because I was so embarrassed. Our team wasn't that bad at maths, I mean we got a few wrong but we did well. A few of my friends were there from the boys school and two of them were on the winning team. It was really fun but I didn't win anything in the quiz...
