After a panicky start of whether I will manage to do 30 hours in time, I have managed to do 32.5 hours over the space of two week.  I am so relieved I have managed to get in done on time as it had worried me for while, especially as mostly everyone had started weeks ago.  I have managed to get so many hours done so quick due to what my placement provides for Broomhouse Primary School.

Placement this week began on Monday, I was on placement all day from 9am till 4pm.  At 9am Eamon and I were meant to have a boy called Tj and whoever he picked for half an hour but that morning he wasn’t  behaving. Tj has been having emotional issues as he is in a wheelchair at the moment waiting on a operation, which he not coping with all the time in school. We went to get him but he had hopped out his wheelchair to try and get his mum after being dropped off, he then hopped out of his class then outside school onto the wet grass and just sat, As he had done this one of assistant teachers and the principal went to deal with it. So me and Eamon took Scott and whoever he picked instead as he was meant to be later and was going to change him with Tj, so he could come later if all was ok.  At 9.30 on a Monday Eamon has the chance to plan his after school session of athletics, there is two different session he has to plan one for mini athletics p1-p3 and the other athletics that week p4-p7. In that time Eamon planned this session and discussed with me about it. He was telling me how the differ due to the age group he’s working with and how the older group can be more skilled based, due to them understanding a bit more. That led us to school break where we and all other assistants head outside to keep an eye on the children while there were outside, that led to us having a short break after. As Tj didn’t come earlier we went to get him but as we did he was shouting at his teacher, Eamon went to calm him down but he got aggressive towards then came out class sat under a table still be aggressive , that’s when the deputy head stepped in and said we were to take someone else. We took another group and done some basketball with them which went well, that led us to lunch.  After our lunch had the lunch club which we done badminton, no issues there. Once that was done the whole school went to church for remembrance  day.  The deputy asked Eamon to go with the p5 class and myself with the p5/6 class to keep on eye the children so they behaved and to support the class teacher, as she asked me to go with a different class from Eamon it made me feel part as one of the staff at school which was nice considering the short time I have been there. The service was nice, some of the pupils written poems and read them out at the service.  That led us to the end of the day.

Overall the day was quick with everything that was going on, but opened my eyes to how some children can behave I never thought that kind of behaviour would happen.