Pictured above: Pupils geared-up in their Scenes of Crime Officers' (SOCO) suits with Jacqui Thompson of PULSE Education & Business Services, who delivered the event

Staying safe and becoming more enterprising are now top priorities for scores of Birmingham school pupils. 

More than 120 students at the Bordesley Green Girls' School have learned how to become more savvy when using the Internet and also encouraged to look at the world of science with fresh eyes.  

Jacqui Thompson of Pulse Education & Business Services, from Cranwell, in Lincolnshire, left pupils with plenty to think about after the school's Community Development Manager Michelle Hughes, invited her to run a Forensic Science Enterprise Day. 

The event was tailored to meet the needs of young people between the ages of eleven and 15-years-old, across different classes at the multicultural, Comprehensive, which has 600 students, more than 50 teachers and a 30-strong support team.

"I started off by running a CEOP (Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre) film, which was aimed at this age group, and which highlights the hidden dangers associated with the inappropriate use of online social networking sites, such as Facebook," said  Mrs Thompson. 

"Then they had the opportunity to become forensic scientists, which involved them in a series of hands-on activities, which included fingerprinting and analysing footprints, fibre and hair." 

The students were taught about the sorts of applications and processes that are routinely used in real-life crime investigations. 

"Finally, it was time for the really exciting part, where everyone dressed up in white Scenes of Crime Officers' (SOCO) suits and investigated individual crime scenes within allocated groups.

"It was really great to see how motivated the students were," added Jacqui. 

For more information about Pulse, please visit their website here: www.fingeronthepulse.biz