"My favourite part of the course are the practicals - like expeditions to Bushy Park to practice our map reading skills and learning about all the different public services and how they work. I’ve had a lot of different opportunities, like being able to go to the Houses of Parliament. We would have visited Kingston Crown Court but unfortunately due to COVID we couldn’t go in and watch the court case, so we watched a court case online instead. I also spent a week’s work experience at Croydon Fire Station learning about how the fire fighters live, work and help everyone within the community. Also being able to talk to the Area Commander for Kingston Fire Brigade, talking to army personal and police officers about their roles face to face was really cool!"