Awareness week keeps students safe and healthy

15/06/2009

One of the sessions saw students volunteering to be cut out of a crashed car, to simulate the experience of being trapped in a road traffic accident

Students at Central Sussex College were given the opportunity to learn how to keep themselves safe and enjoy a healthy lifestyle during a week-long series of events at the College's Crawley campus.

Be Healthy - Stay Safe week, 18th-21st May, gave students and their tutors a chance to participate in fun yet educational activities to get them talking about issues including sexual health and knife crime.

The programme of events for the week, organised by Louise King, Principal Tutor at the Crawley campus, included workshops on Chlamydia, condom safety, smoking and road safety. Interactive sessions included human table football, yoga, frisbee and fitness testing with Virgin Active Gym.

Louise commented, "The week has received some great feedback from staff and students. The sixty sessions that were available throughout the week for tutor groups to attend were all thoroughly enjoyed and saw students and staff going away having taken on board new points of view."

It is now hoped that Be Healthy - Stay Safe week will become a regular fixture in the College calendar. A similar event is planned for the College's Haywards Heath campus at the end of June.