Did you learn first aid at school?


safcrob

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I did but as a 15 year old lad I don't think I'd have had the bottle to do mouth to mouth, to be honest I would have panicked back then but still phoned for an ambulance.
 
I think I did. Was pretty basic, what do if you suspect a stroke, apply pressure to a wound etc.

We did full CPR training at work a few years back. Thankfully never had to use it.
 
We didn't. In the first couple of years we had a "tutorial" session with the head of year for an hour every week. In the latter years it changed to Pre-Vocational Studies. I can't remember us ever doing anything useful in that at all. I think we might have done typical interview aptitude tests but otherwise it was the waste of an hour.

I always felt that it should become a life skills lesson. Learn first aid. Learn how credit cards and other loans work so you can get the best deal while avoiding crippling debt. (The language of car salesmen regarding finance is a lesson in itself). All these sorts of things that would have been useful to know but I kind of taught myself when released to the world.
Labour introduced a bill for it to be taught in all schools but Philip Davis and other Tories talked the bill out so it never became law. Yet another shameful, spiteful act by the Tories: Tory MPs block bill to give first aid training to children by talking non-stop until debate ends
Disgraceful that in our democracy, 639 MPs could support a motion but it might not go ahead because one individual drones on filibustering for hours. They really need to reform so that everyone gets a fair bit of airtime but if a vote is needed the vote is scheduled for a particular time and will go ahead. No action or further debate should always be a voting option up to a certain number of further debates, but to not have something heard because one person doesn't like it is crazy.
 
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We didn't. In the first couple of years we had a "tutorial" session with the head of year for an hour every week. In the latter years it changed to Pre-Vocational Studies. I can't remember us ever doing anything useful in that at all. I think we might have done typical interview aptitude tests but otherwise it was the waste of an hour.

I always felt that it should become a life skills lesson. Learn first aid. Learn how credit cards and other loans work so you can get the best deal while avoiding crippling debt. (The language of car salesmen regarding finance is a lesson in itself). All these sorts of things that would have been useful to know but I kind of taught myself when released to the world.

Disgraceful that in our democracy, 639 MPs could support a motion but it might not go ahead because one individual drones on filibustering for hours. They really need to reform so that everyone gets a fair bit of airtime but if a vote is needed the vote is scheduled for a particular time and will go ahead. No action or further debate should always be a voting option up to a certain number of further debates, but to not have something heard because one person doesn't like it is crazy.
Filibustering should be outlawed or at the very least it should not stop a vote at the end. If you waste your time making your point by waffling on then tough. There should be a vote at the end.
 
I didn't learn it at school and my bairns haven't learned in standard lessons.

My daughter is currently doing a St John's course for her Duke of Edinburgh but that's an optional thing she's chosen to do.
 
I didn't learn it at school and my bairns haven't learned in standard lessons.

My daughter is currently doing a St John's course for her Duke of Edinburgh but that's an optional thing she's chosen to do.
You did PVS at the same school as me. Do you remember anything useful there? The most I can remember is getting loads of pointless information leaflets and we had to make them nice by colouring in the border. The teacher said it was an easy GCSE for people to get. I didn't because I refused to hand in my folder. I forgot about it until a year later when I found it in the bottom of my wardrobe. I hadn't even realised PVS was missing from my list of results. I think back then I probably valued maths and science more than colouring in.
 
No but I did as a St Johns member.

No reason not to be included in the curriculum, throughout my life the test has got easier with the responder having less and less to do other than to make the patient comfortable.
 
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You did PVS at the same school as me. Do you remember anything useful there? The most I can remember is getting loads of pointless information leaflets and we had to make them nice by colouring in the border. The teacher said it was an easy GCSE for people to get. I didn't because I refused to hand in my folder. I forgot about it until a year later when I found it in the bottom of my wardrobe. I hadn't even realised PVS was missing from my list of results. I think back then I probably valued maths and science more than colouring in.

It was a City and Guilds certificate. Mine lists two projects - finding out about careers including a work experience project and finding out about tourism and recreation in the area and planning an itinerary for a visitor.

We had the head teacher for PVS but I can't remember his name (Mr Cox?). I can remember filling in some big booklet of skills and stuff and it was sent off. A printout came back to tell you if you were suitable for your chosen careers and what it thought you should be. Every boy got waiter, bellboy or supermarket shelf stacker and every girl got waitress, housekeeping staff or supermarket till worker. He filled it with his chosen career of teacher and his came back saying he wasn't suited to teaching 😂

He also said bizarrely that Viz was a true to life representation of life that we should be reading it as long as we ignored some of the words in it. We asked what words we should ignore and he said "you know, rude ones." We again pretended we had no idea what he meant, so he opened the classroom door, looked both ways up and down the corridor, came back in and staged whispered "F" "U" "C" "K". We all sat there silent not knowing how to react and he followed it up with "that spells fuck". At this point we all lost it 😂😂

But yeah, can't remember learning anything remotely useful for adult life.
 
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Never taught at school but had a lot of training as traffic and firearms police. Have given CPR at fatal road accident many years on the Shotton Colliery to Wingate road whilst my crew mate did mouth to mouth.
 
No but I did as a St Johns member.

No reason not to be included in the curriculum, throughout my life the test has got easier with the responder having less and less to do other than to make the patient comfortable.
This...you can learn anytime, any age.
 

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