How to Save a Life…

On Friday 16th January representatives from the school council and some year 1 children participated in two basic life support sessions delivered by a specialist trainer from the charity ‘Hand on Heart-Funding Defibrillators for schools’.

The sessions included learning how to assess whether a casualty was breathing, placing someone in the recovery position, delivering CPR and how to assess for danger and seek appropriate help. The sessions were very practical and all the children got to practice CPR techniques on some dummies. It will be the children’s responsibility to feedback what they have learnt to their classmates.

‘Hand on Heart’ has funded a defibrillator to be located in school and eight members of staff have received four hours of training on how to use one safely. We are delighted to have this potentially life saving piece of equipment in school. Many thanks to ‘Hand on Heart’ from all the staff and pupils at St Philips.

London Calling…

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On Tuesday 16th October 2012, sixteen lucky pupils were chosen to represent St. Philip’s on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to London. Organised by the School Council, the purpose of the day was to visit the Houses of Parliament and meet our local MP, Graham Stringer. As part of the day, Mr Barrett kindly arranged for the pupils to go on the London Eye, visit Buckingham Palace and undertake a tour of the Houses of Parliament – where they were fortunate enough to watch a live debate! Before meeting the MP, pupils participated in a ‘democracy workshop’, which they thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you to Mr Barrett for such as fantastic day!

Waste Week!

The School Council have been hard at work for the past few weeks campaigning around school and during assemblies for our school to become greener!
Last week was National Waste Week and the School Council was hard at work again but this time they were asking all pupils to get involved. Every class did their part to make our school greener. We recycled paper and plastic and even food. The school Council gave out lots of stickers and this week they will announce the ‘Greenest Class Award’ so keep trying hard, the School Council is always watching!

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