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PACI gives every student first aid training

Mar 23, 2017 | 5:00 PM

Students were given a break from classes for a day of hands-on learning at their annual literacy workshop. Staff from St. John Ambulance was on hand to ensure every student in the school received CPR and basic first aid training. Also on offer throughout the day were workshops in visual arts, yoga, poetry, martial arts, mental and sexual health and addictions.

Principal Dawne Adams said the workshops were made possible by grants from the Saskatchewan Alliance for Youth and Community Well-Being (SAYCW) and Northern Lights Community Development Corporation, along with help from community partners.

“We received some funding from SAYCW and so we had the opportunity to give all our students a CPR/first aid course,” Adams said. “[It’s] definitely a skill that’s useful for students, for work and in their regular lives.”

Adams said the day was meant to help their Grade 9-12 students build social and physical literacy, and “learn in a different way” than their typical classroom lessons.

For Noël Parent, the literacy workshops let her learn about first aid for the first time ever.

“We’re learning how to take care of someone if they were to faint or are having troubles breathing,” Parent said. “It’s interesting. I never knew what to do, so now I get to know.”

Although the day offered a break from regular classes, Parent said she was learning just as much at her workshops, if not more.

In addition to first aid, Parent said she got a chance to try her hand at yoga and visual arts. The art was her favourite part, she said, as the students celebrated Canada’s 150th birthday by drawing their personal impressions of the nation.

 

Taylor.macpherson@jpbg.ca

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–EDITORS NOTE: This story was updated on March 27, 2017 at 10:05 am to correct an error.  The first aid training was provided by St. John Ambulance, not the Red Cross as originally reported.