Ten students from Callow Park College have achieved the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health ‘Level 2 Food Safety Award’.

The group of students have been attending life skills lessons for the past two years with their teacher Gaynor Wall.

The qualification covers the following topics:

• Legislation
• Food safety and hygiene hazards
• Temperature control
• Refrigeration, chilling and cold holding
• Cooking, hot holding and reheating
• Food handling
• Principles of safe food storage
• Cleaning
• Food premises and equipment

The training has helped young people to appreciate the importance of how they work in the kitchen. They have particularly enjoyed the scientific aspects and the videos demonstrating the ‘dos and don'ts’ of handling food safely.

The students received excellent feedback from the external trainer who remarked on their exceptional behaviour and the impressive level of technical questions asked.

The students now look forward to receiving their certificates early next month, which are valid for the next 3 years. A couple of the students are planning to go onto catering college when they leave Callow Park.

Meanwhile three students studying BTEC Sport have achieved the Emergency Response Swimming Pool Award, awarded by the Royal Lifesaving Society UK.

The award enables them to act as lifeguards at small swimming pools and lasts for two years. A student who completed the course last year has gone on to complete her Bronze Medallion Life Saving Award and hopes to work within the sports/ leisure industry when she leaves college.