Life Skills T
here are endless opportunities to develop key skills for life at St Peter’s, through co-curricular clubs and societies and co-curricular activities organised to support our pupils’ learning. Thank you to the organisations and partners who help to deliver training and workshops for our pupils throughout the year.
Road Safety with North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (NYFRS) introduced our Upper Sixth Form to the often shocking reality of road safety. With many of our Upper Sixth Form learning to drive, NYFRS were invited to introduce our pupils to the risks and consequences of dangerous driving. NYFRS started their visit by asking our pupils what they believed were the main causes of accidents that take place on the UK’s roads. Being distracted by mobile phones, driving under the influence of alcohol and misjudgements when driving, were some of the answers pupils gave, with another cause of vehicle defects, being highlighted by NYFRS. Following their brief talk, the pupils went outside where they were confronted by a staged road traffic scene. A driver and passenger were trapped inside their car, where the Fire and Rescue Service had just arrived at the scene. Pupils then got to see first-hand how rescue services remove trapped persons from vehicles, in this case with the roof of the car being removed.
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