A lifesaving lift to safety

For Alexandra's suspected spinal injury, the team training as pool lifeguards had to work very carefully together to get her out of the water. Almal, Anthony, Carrie-Ann, Danielle, Jamie and Joe all know that a false move could paralyse her for life.

Fortunately, Alexandra was only involved in roleplay as part of our 12 week intensive RLSS National Pool Lifeguard Award Seventh Edition course.

With instruction in both the classroom and the college swimming pool, the course is preparing us for every eventuality, and we each take it in turns to be the 'victim', trusting the others to 'save' us under the careful eye and instruction of our tutor.

Alexandra says, "This course is fun because we get to do a lot of swimming and learning First Aid isn't as hard as it looks!"

The place with friendly staff!

Regular users of the Library (known as the "2Learn Centre"), Jamie and Isha want to share their thoughts on just how good the place is.

"The staff are really nice and there are such good resources here," Jamie said pointing around to the room which has over 50,000 books as well as thousands of DVDs and Videos, talking and interactive books.
"Yes, it's such a friendly environment," added Isha.

The two are studying for their Child Care diplomas and find the free use of the computers essential for writing up their coursework.

The Library not only provides coursework reference support but can loan items (including fiction and entertainment) for periods of up to 3 weeks.