Meeting Five...

As usual we always start off our meetings all professional with the minutes being taken, apologies for absents and what the agenda of the meeting is....

We started off by recapping how much money we have raised so far which is a total of £206.00 this is from the cake sale and Christmas fundraiser as well as us all putting in five pounds towards Justine's half marathon run which she did the other week, so thats an extra £55... i think LOL
We then started to organise our next fund raiser which is a car wash. The Fund raising team needs to make posters so people are aware of this, everyone needs to bring a sponge, bucket and car shampoo on the day of the car wash. There are rules that we need to follow on the day which is no jewelry, no jeans and suitable clothing which will dry quickly. The fund raising team are also preparing an email to be sent to Christian Norman which he will then send to all the members of staff at the college, the email contains information about the car wash and also a booking form for them to fill out so that we know where/what/when their car is. They also have to produce a booking table for the students and teachers that want to book on the day.

We have changed the itinerary a little bit as we are unhappy with what we are doing on the Thursday of the trip. Me and Gemme have been trying to find something to do that EVERYONE wants to do and We now finally have something to do!  Megan found a Czech traditional food and drink festival. Justine and I then researched this more and everyone really liked the idea. It works out as £23.00 each for 12 tollers. (Tollers are what we can pay for food and beer/drink with).There are 3 different tents within the festival and we had to choose a tent which we want to eat in, they all have different menus. The class  picked tent 2 as it had a range of foods which everyone will enjoy. The festival opens at 12:00 noon and finishes 00:00 so we can stay here for the whole day.

So the itinerary for Prague has now been done! Everyone now knows what were doing during our trip to prague! We also went through the code of conduct so that the class is aware of the dos and don'ts of the trip. Also we went through all of the important items that we need to bring with us to Prague. For example suncream, toiletries, phone, passport and money.

As this is a College Trip then somehow the Parents have to become invloved (eventhough my mum is quite invloved LOL) which is going in the presentation to the parents. The practice run for the presentation is the 28th April and the real thing is on the 3rd May

 S xx

Don't worry I'm now a Doctor....Well sort of?

As a part of the course and for the safety of the trip, we are now all First Aid trained! During the training we practiced the recovery position which we did on each other, we know what to do if someone is breathing or not, and there is different procedures to go through which is DRABC.

DRABC stands for DANGER - is it safe for us to get help the person? RESPONSE-is the person concious? To chech we have to tap their collarbone and gently shake the person.  AIRWAYS- Are the airways clear? If they are then we lift their chin fully back so they don't swallow their tongue and choke. BREATHING -is the person breathing? To check we put our ear to their mouth for 10 seconds to see if i can hear or feel them breathing whilst looking down at their chest to see any movement. After this we should call an ambulance and tell them the situation, if they are female/male and if they are breathing or not. The last word is Compression/CPR-if the person is not breathing we should do this, this is where we need to do 30 compressions on their sternum and then give them 2 breaths each lasting around 4 seconds.We stop this if we are getting tired, an ambulance comes or if they start breathing again.We practiced this on dummies, and it was a very good thing to do as we could feel how difficult it really was to keep doing the 30 compressions. I tried so hard to save my dummy that i blistered my hand..now that is a real doctor in the making! LOL

Another part of First Aid we learnt was how to stop heavy bleeding and how to use bandages. We had the chance to real have a good on each other. And how to help some one if they are choking.

 

This First Aid Training will last for 3 years and I now feel safe  and confident if anything was to happen to me or anyone else in Prague... hopefully nothing will but best to be safe than sorry!

Sx

Monday 4th April 2011

Cake Sale anyone....?

To raise money for Prague, we are doing different fund raising activities and we've just done a Cake Sale! Wooo! Everyone made different cakes the day before and bought them in on the cake sale, there was cupcakes, crispy cakes, muffins, cookies and big cakes. We sold a whole cake first for five pounds which was a good start. 

We went down at 9 to set up our table and cakes, we sorted out all the prices(printed by Steph B) and some of us , including Me brought trays, plates and tissues. My Mum also helped out by allowing me to bring tongs and knifes for us use as well.

We had the stall 9-half til 2 and by around 12 o'clock we had sold all the cakes! During the Cake Sale, we all took turns in going round to offices to try and sell more cakes there. I wasn't allowed to go around to the offices as I was awesome at bring in people to the Cake Sale...Some even said I should have my own Market Stall!! LOL Nearer the end of of the Cake Sale we had to have a super sale and lower the prices so all the cakes would get sold, which they eventually did.

The crispy Cakes i made...Yumm :)

After we counted how much money we had raised for out trip and it was £136.32!!!! Lorna and Kaleigh went in the finance department to bank the money. 

Overall we have raised a total of £206 from the 2 fund raising activities and we still have more to do! The money we have raised will go towards Prague in some way...just haven't decided how yet.?.

We also have a car wash lined up for the 6th May just before we go, so even more money for Prague!! so excitingg!!

S x

Friday 1st April 2011

Doing some real College work...

We actually had to do some real college work! :L We had to produce a Risk Assessment Booklet which including two potential risks that may happen in each team, two in transport, two in attractions/activities, two in accomodotion and risks that may happen around Prague. We would then write what we can do to reduce the risks from happening.

We started by explaining what a risk is and what the purpose of doing a risk assessment is, then we had to produce a table where we would state the potential risk, the level of risk, who it would effect and how it can be reduced. After the table on another page within the booklet we had to explain in more detail for reducing the risks.

S x

Friday 4th February 2011