HOSPITAL EDUCATION SERVICE
DEC 09
Work Experience for School Pupils
Hospital Education Service
has five sixth year school
pupils from local secondary schools attending for
half a day per week on
work experience. These
pupils wish to study medicine next year and are
using this opportunity to
gain knowledge and practical advice for their university application.
The pupils are Paul Higgins, Liam Ewins, Melisa
Sue Coyle from St Thomas
Aquinas Secondary and
Cal Doherty & Emma Mills
from Hyndland Secondary.
Their duties will include
attending the Yorkhill Volunteers course and becoming a qualified Yorkhill
Volunteer. They will visit
hospital
departments;
Orthotics, Bio Engineering,
Medical records, Fraser of
Allander Neurological Unit.
They will also meet Professor Robert Carachi in
surgery and newly gradu-
ated doctors
here at
Yorkhill. Future visits are
planned for the Laboratories and Stobhill teenage
psychiatric
unit,
Skye
House. We wish them
every success!
Elephant poem by Megan P5
Ears like giant
wings.
Likes eating roots
and fruits.
Elephants are the
Happy Christmas
From Staff and Pupils at Hospital Education
HOSPITAL EDUCATION SERVICE
DECEMBER 2009
HES Pupils Cooking on a Bus!
It looks like a lorry
and inside it is like a
Tardis! The Cooking
Bus came to the Scottish Exhibition Centre,
Glasgow in June.
The
Scottish
Food
Standards
Agency
Cooking Bus has been
developed in partnership with Focus on
Food Campaign to get
across healthy eating
and food safety messages to school children in a fun way. It
travels all over Scotland and is free to the
groups it visits.
Usually the bus visits
schools and community groups and this is
the first time a hospital school has been
involved.
The Dietetic Department
and
Hospital
Education Service organised the visit by
the
bus.
Teachers
went for a training
session
and
then
groups of young people who were pupils in
the hospital schools,
pupils
who
attend
community clinics and
pupils from Kelvinhaugh Primary were
treated to sessions.
Helen, the cooking
advisor
welcomed
everyone aboard to
learn about where
food
comes
from,
kitchen safety and
hygiene and how to
cook healthily. We
also had a very special visitor who was
attending a Health
Service conference at
the SECC - Shona
Robertson who is the
Scottish Public Health
Minister.
Our young people had
a brilliant time making, amongst other
things,
smoothies,
honey vegetable kebabs and fruit kebabs.
The pupils in the hos-
pital schools then continued their work for the
next week on healthy
cooking and eating back
at school. The play specialists on the wards ran
a poster competition and
we had brilliant support
from the catering department
in
RHSC
who
helped, not only with
utensils, but washed up
and gave us a basket of
fruit to raffle for our
school funds! Thanks to
their kind generosity, we
raised over £50.
You can find out more
about the cooking bus
on: www.focusonfood.org
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HOSPITAL EDUCATION
STOBHILL SCHOOL
New
School
Stobhill School is part of
Skye House, the adolescent
psychiatric
unit
based in Stobhill Hospital. The unit was officially opened in August
2009 by Nicola Strurgeon, the Health Secretary. Pupils were involved in planning the
unit and the school has
six classrooms and a
gym. All the rooms have
computers and some have
Smartboards.
Pupils study most of the
subjects on offer in the
mainstream schools.
Pupils
win
Two pupils from Stobhill
School won the Design a
Boat Competition organized by BAE. The pupils
fought off competition
from fourteen other Glasgow schools to claim first
prize.
Blooming
Stobhill
Competiton
The Trefoil Charity has
given
six
thousand
pounds to Stobhill School
to enable the pupils to
design and fully equip a
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Our Christmas Concert
with the RSNO will be
held on Thursday 17
December in the
Physio Gym at 1.30.
Come along and join in
the fun, singing popular
seasonal songs, and in