Year 5s from Biggin Hill Primary School had a very exciting hands-on business visit to HFR Solutions. Ironically, this occurred on November 5th - the busiest day for our fire service!
The children go a great insight on what life would be like in this line of work should this be something they think about doing when they leave school.
The day started with a very informative chat where their employees gave a brief insight into their own working lives. This helped raise aspiration, giving plenty of encouragement to the children about working hard at school to enable them to achieve their own goals.
All children acted with confidence, engaging in so many new and exciting activities. Each child had a turn at:
- Putting out a fire with an extinguisher
- Wearing all the appropriate safety equipment when getting lowered underground to 'rescue' carabiners from enclosed spaces;
- Being lifted up to the next floor using hoists
- Having an insight on how easy it can be to save someone's life with some basic first aid
A fabulous day for all! You could tell by the reaction of the children on the way home: they were "buzzing"!
Alan, Learning Experience Lead