Work experience – week 6

This week I was involved in two different work experiences. Firstly, I helped out with the second of four archery classes at Fallin primary. My second work experience was a Boccia festival at the peak in Stirling.

This was my second week helping at the archery class in Fallin primary, the participants were mostly the same as the previous week, which mean they relaxed a bit in our company which was good and bad. It was good because they knew how to use the equipment and about the health a safety but it was bad because they just wanted to get straight into shooting and were more reluctant to listen this week.

My second bit of work experience was at the peak for a Boccia festival. My main job within the festival was to referee several boccia games. This was a fun role but was tricky at times. The festival was for disability children and there was a very varied range of abilities this could be hard at times because some of the games became very one sided, so to help this I just tried to be enthusiastic and compare them against their own ball rather than their opposition.

I feel like I have learnt a bit more again this week, such as helping in a group with varying levels of disability and having to deal with a slightly more disruptive class. I think from this week I’ve learnt that I may need to be stricter in situations where the children have been misbehaving because I think there were a couple of occasions that I was too lenient and It meant they thought the behaviour was ok, so I think I am still finding the balance between fun sports experience and being in charge.