On Thursday 19th September, S3 took part in an event organised by Developing the Young Workforce – Shetland. The ‘Young People in Aviation’ event took place in Brae Community Hall, where pupils were split into groups mixing with pupils from Brae High School and Aith Junior High School.
The groups rotated around 8 stations based on different companies who work at the airport. Pupils were involved in taking part in fun activities and challenges at each station while listening to the advice from experts in their fields. Stations included Coastguard Search & Rescue, Air traffic control, Fire service, Security, and the MT department.
Pupils were introduced to the reality behind the scenes within an airport, including all the different roles and responsibilities of the wide members of staff working together for our safety and security. Pupils reported that it was interesting learning about all the different jobs, routes into these posts and learning transferrable skills into different posts. They particularly enjoyed learning about the circuit work in electrical engineering and listening to stories about the physically demanding and high-pressured role as a coastguard.
Thank you to Julie Anderson for accompanying the class, DYW – Shetland for arranging the event and providing transport, and to the airport staff contributing to the different stations.
Pupils quotes from the event:
“Really fun, interesting, cool, and entertaining, really enjoyed learning the phonetic alphabet.”
“Good, useful and interesting learning how many different jobs there are at Sumburgh Airport.”
“It was fun trying on the dry suit and fire suit and realising how heavy it was.”
“I liked learning how to open up an airway and what to do to become a paramedic at the coastguard station.”
“I liked scanning for security – surprising which items could go through in hold luggage and enjoyed searching scans for items in hand luggage.”
“It was surprising learning what airport firemen do as it was a lot different to normal firemen.”
