What's Happening?

Guess who? It’s me again. A week of me blogging whilst the students are busy working on their college work. The past few weeks have been quite busy within college from “Safer Internet Day”, Valentine’s Day and now we are looking forward to Sport Relief in March.

Safer Internet Day was held on 9^th February nationally and saw people up and down the country learning and trying to gain a wider understanding of how the internet can be dangerous. Students gathered in Conference 5 to watch the harrowing tale of Breck Bednar. Breck Bednar was a 14 year old boy who was murdered after he was groomed online by a gamer he had met online. The documentary showed the harsh true facts of what can happen on the internet. Also within college there was a set of boards displaying posters, which highlight the dangers and give advice of how to remain safe whilst on the internet. E-Safety is an ongoing issue which can affect anyone regardless of age, gender or race.

Also during that week the Ambassadors were hard at work selling chocolate gifts for Valentine’s Day, which I then delivered around college (I felt like a real life Cupid haha). I was so impressed with the amount of people who joined in with the fun and bought their special someone a special treat. I would like to say a massive thank you to the Ambassadors who helped sell and distribute the Valentine’s gifts and to Tina Preston who worked alongside me creating the little bags of love.

Now onto events that are coming soon….

Sport Relief is taking place on Friday 18^th March, which helps charities around the UK and other countries make people’s lives a little bit better. From mental health, homelessness to funding health services in deprived countries. This year here at the college we are hosting a 1 mile fun run along Seaton Carew front. Everyone is invited to participate in this fun run/walk/skip/jump whatever you want just pay a £1 to sign up either at Student Services or your Form Tutor. Fancy dress is optional but there will be a prize for the best fancy dress and the fastest time for male and female.

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This week there are few new things happening around your college…

It is the run up to Valentine’s Day and love is in the air around us! The ambassadors will be selling chocolate hearts for you to give to the one who holds your heart! They will be sold next week at the cafeteria during dinner by our ambassadors at £1 a bag and they are also available at Erin’s desk in Student Services. They are also being delivered around the college on Friday 12^th February.

There is also an Instagram competition running for Safer Internet Day. This promotes our use of the internet and helps people stay safe while surfing the internet. Ambassadors will be taking teddies and hearts to classes for everyone to take pictures with! Make sure you put your photos on twitter or Instagram and #ShareaHeart and #FELife.

In March there will be a fancy dress walk-a-thon, skip-a-thon, jump-a-thon don’t wear a thong fun run to raise money for Sport Relief. Sport and Public Services students will be marshalling the fun run and hopefully lots of people get involved! Start signing up now J  It starts at Navigation Point and there will be a layout that lasts a mile! Hope to see people involved!

Games Club! The Games Club is being set up and will be sorted out soon! We are open to offers on game but so far it will include a range of consoles from the Xbox 360 to the Nintendo Wii! There may even be retro gaming involved – the Gamecube and the original Xbox may make an appearance! Any games that people may be interested in can be requested to Erin or any of the ambassadors and we will try our best!

I think I’ve covered everything from our latest meeting so now onto basic college life…

Okay so I’m a 17 year old girl, and my genre of music is based around pop-punk and rock music. I’m mentioning this because last night I went to a Bowling for Soup gig in Leeds, believe me it was amazing! They closed with 1985 and then everyone was shouting for an encore so they officially ended on Girl All the Bad Guys Want. During the set they ‘rocked too hard’ and blew two amp leads so they had to stop twice during the set. Today is Thursday and let me tell you my throat hurts from singing so much! Being in Hartlepool FE gives me the opportunity to see bands like this because I can balance my social life and things I enjoy doing with my college life easily. I also have a weekend job in a takeaway and my college life doesn’t affect my ability to do these things and be able to provide for myself.

I am in college three days a week and I have made some good friends here who I feel will be with me later in life as we are all really close. Overall I love being in Hartlepool College of Further Education and I wouldn’t change it or my time here for anything.