I won't say too much about it because Alicia has already written a lengthy account of our adventures in a 15 man tent. I had a lot of fun, despite the bitter cold. Martha cleverly installed a projector, running from the laptop in the tent. We watched Bridget Jones (a traditional sleepover film, - a genius film, I hasten to add), Morris (a very bizarre but enjoyable film, which Chloe, who is just as weird and wonderful, brought, and a German horror movie, all projected onto a hanging sheet in the tent.
Throughout the night, and into the early hours of the morning, we ate. Pizza. Doritos. Haribo (even though I hate haribo). Cadbury roses. Quality Streets. Chocolate Orange. Chocolate buttons. Chocolate...well...you get the message.
It was great fun. Unfortunately, I am stilling burning off the extra 1000s of calories.
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
A trip down memory lane
I realise that I haven't posted anything since the beginning of term - my apologies.
I had work experience a couple of weeks ago. I heard that it was best to organise your own placement because the placements arranged for you aren't particularly good. I don't really have any idea what I want to do when I am older, but I was interested in teaching - particularly maths and music. Therefore, I decided to sort out a placement at a primary school. Where is better than my old primary school?
I loved going back to Caversham Primary School. For once, I felt tall. Understandably, I was asked to spend quite a lot of my time with the year 1s - 5 year olds are a handful at the best of times, but two classes of 30 is another matter entirely. I helped with reading, writing and number work. I took children out of class in groups to help them sew puppets. They loved it. By the end of the week, I was stalked around the playground by the years 1s (particularly the girls) and a handful of older children we picked up along the way. It was adorable, but incredibly annoying. It was meant to be MY break as well.
I spent Wednesday with Miss Wallis in the Music department. We worked out that it was 7 years since she taught me - she was my year 4 teacher. Now she teaches year 5 and is the school music teacher on the Wednesday. I helped out in choir, orchestra and recorders as well as the class music lessons. I sat in awe through the year 4 music lesson. Caversham Primary has entered into a scheme which helps each child in year 4 learn a musical instrument. Bravely, Miss Wallis had, with the funding from the scheme, invited in several music teachers from Berkshire Maestros, to teach every child in that year a brass instrument. I was overwhelmed by the 65 trombones, baritones, trumpets and cornets all stacked up in the conservatory. The children had been playing a few weeks, and so they were now getting a sound out of their mouth pieces, but unfortunately, they hadn't quite perfected the sound, and they had no volume control.
I spent Friday with the upper school, observing year 5's art, design and technology and english lessons. I then went to a year 4 class to observe their maths lesson. I really enjoyed the week. It certainly hasn't put me off teacher, but I think I should seriously reconsider the age group - young children can be quite trying!
I had work experience a couple of weeks ago. I heard that it was best to organise your own placement because the placements arranged for you aren't particularly good. I don't really have any idea what I want to do when I am older, but I was interested in teaching - particularly maths and music. Therefore, I decided to sort out a placement at a primary school. Where is better than my old primary school?
I loved going back to Caversham Primary School. For once, I felt tall. Understandably, I was asked to spend quite a lot of my time with the year 1s - 5 year olds are a handful at the best of times, but two classes of 30 is another matter entirely. I helped with reading, writing and number work. I took children out of class in groups to help them sew puppets. They loved it. By the end of the week, I was stalked around the playground by the years 1s (particularly the girls) and a handful of older children we picked up along the way. It was adorable, but incredibly annoying. It was meant to be MY break as well.
I spent Wednesday with Miss Wallis in the Music department. We worked out that it was 7 years since she taught me - she was my year 4 teacher. Now she teaches year 5 and is the school music teacher on the Wednesday. I helped out in choir, orchestra and recorders as well as the class music lessons. I sat in awe through the year 4 music lesson. Caversham Primary has entered into a scheme which helps each child in year 4 learn a musical instrument. Bravely, Miss Wallis had, with the funding from the scheme, invited in several music teachers from Berkshire Maestros, to teach every child in that year a brass instrument. I was overwhelmed by the 65 trombones, baritones, trumpets and cornets all stacked up in the conservatory. The children had been playing a few weeks, and so they were now getting a sound out of their mouth pieces, but unfortunately, they hadn't quite perfected the sound, and they had no volume control.
I spent Friday with the upper school, observing year 5's art, design and technology and english lessons. I then went to a year 4 class to observe their maths lesson. I really enjoyed the week. It certainly hasn't put me off teacher, but I think I should seriously reconsider the age group - young children can be quite trying!
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