I am starting to feel like my placement has become my job that I do on a Friday.  I like this as it means that I am settled and comfortable in this setting but it also makes me a little sad as I know that my placement is finishing soon.  I know that with these placements there are sometimes opportunities to carry on volunteering out with placement.  However as I am returning to my work next week after maternity Leave I will not have the capacity to continue this placement. Which is disappointing.
This weeks placement was good.  I was working one to one again with Josh.  Although he didn’t want to do any of the activities in class this week, he left his dad with relatively no dramas and even spoke to  two of the other coaches.  He has never done this before and when they have tried to talk to him he has shied away from them.  This week HE actively spoke to them.  So it appears that he is becoming more comfortable in the class environment.
The home school group and the school group were fun to work with.  I feel that I am able to relate well to the children and have built good relationships with them.  I am able to be instructive but also fun which they like as the seem to be able to connect to me and listen to what I ask.
last session of the day was Dodgeball.  This session Tony always leads and I am thankful as there are some particularly strong characters in this group.  A few of them really struggle with instruction and being told something that they don’t want to hear or agree with.  A lot of the time Tony has to explain the role of the umpire and the consequences of not listening to them and arguing back.  It is a shame that this happens quite regularly as it wastes a lot of time.  However when they do listen and work as a team there are some fantastic players!
I look forward to next weeks sessions.

Christina