On Thursday 21 March 2013, 150 Year 10 students from Sir Thomas Boughey High School participated in a taster day at Newcastle-under-Lyme College (NULC).
The aim of the visit was to give the students an idea of what college is all about and were given the choice of up to 10 different subject tasters to choose from.
Taster sessions in Sport, Psychology & Sociology, Science & Forensics, Child Development, Animation, Graphic Design, Photography, Carpentry, Painting & Decorating and Bricklaying.
The tasters ran by NULC lecturers give an insight into that particular subject and encouraged the students to look at possible careers in that area.
The skilled trades were well represented with pupils learning how to dip different coloured paint to create their own piece of work in the Painting & Decorating session.
Child Development students experienced ‘Nappy changing with a difference’ which changed some student’s opinions about how to change a nappy. Chocolate and Marmite were used as an appropriate substitute to the real thing!
Lara Dale who was lucky enough to participate in the Child Development workshop commented ‘I enjoyed learning how to change your baby and actually doing instead of just learning it’.
Students who chose the Science & Forensics were shown how to create their own ‘Disease’ with the use of bacteria, all safely monitored by NULC lecturer Lucy Chadwick and half a dozen petri dishes!
Megan Johnson who participated in the Science workshop commented ‘I enjoyed learning about different diseases on the Ipad and using finger dust in the forensics activity’.
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