Placement Week

The week before chiristmas i carried out a weeks work experinece at Hirwaun Primary school. Before leaving for placement we were given a placement handbook with a number of tasks for us to do. On my first day od placement i got introduced to the head teacher, where she futher asked me which age group i would like to experience. The age group i chose was a year one class. My first day was pretty much getting to know the children and their teacher. At this time period i found the classroom was very hectic and not much work was being done, apart from activities relating to christmas.
My tasks for the week were to observe how the teacher and children interact, help children with their work. For exmaple, i helped children make christmas and folders for them to keep their work neatly. Also the children were practicing for their christmas concert so this was their main focus. The two main tasks i thought were useful to my learning was listsening to a handful of pupils reading; and taking them down to the computer room where i had to teach them to copy and paste festival pictures from google, in order to produce a festival poster. Things i found interesting was each day children had what they called "news time". This gave the children to discuss with each other and with the teacher what they are doing for the weekend or what they did the previous day. I thoughily enjoyed my placement week and look forward to my next placement :)