What is education? Guest speaker (Steve Gulluck)

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We then had a seminar with Steve where he discussed the role of governors further. He gave the class a task to do in groups. The task was discussing what we thought was important for health and safety when the teacher took children on a school trip outside of the school. We came up with a few ideas we thought were the most important including:

• First aid kit
• Registers
• Medical details of the children going
• Contact details of the children going

We then took it in turns to discuss this list with the rest of the class to see if the other groups agreed, or if they came up with more answers to add to the list. Then Steve explained to us why these items were all important. Having a first aid kit is very important because if there are any accidents the teacher needs to have the equipment to help them. Registers are important to make sure that no children get left behind. Medical details of the children are important because the teacher needs to know if the child has an allergy, or has diabetes just in case anything happens. He made it clear that having one number for each child was not enough just in case that phone was unavailable to contact in an emergency, therefore a reserve number would be needed.

I really enjoyed learning about Governers because i had no idea how much they actually did for the schools before. I also realised that when i am a teacher they will have a huge impact on a lot of the things i will be doing.