During the work experience module I will be doing my placements with Active Stirling, although I am from Glasgow I feel I would get more out of doing a placement within an area I am not familiar with as this will help to improve on skills such as my confidence and teamwork.

On the 2nd week of the module I met with my mentor Craig from Active Stirling who spoke to me about the criteria and all the activities we will be participating in as I missed the 1st week. At first I felt nervous meeting Craig as everyone else had already met him and I didn’t know what to expect. Upon meeting Craig we received an email to bring in certain things to sort out our PVG’s so we can start placement straight away once these are done. As I already had a PVG I didn’t have much of the paperwork to do and at the end of the meeting I had time to speak to Craig about things I wasn’t very sure of.

Recently Craig got in touch with us to say that our PVG’s should be sent out to us within the next few weeks and once we have these sent to us we should get in contact with him so that he can sort our placement out.  When speaking to Craig I told him I was interested in Football and Dancing, he told us that our first placement will be on the 23rd of October and it will be a Paralympic event for children with disabilities and it would be great if we could go along.

Meeting Craig made me feel a lot more confident as I had a lot of anxiety as I wasn’t sure what to expect from this placement as I have previously done it within Glasgow when in high school, however my mentor didn’t bother much with me and didn’t keep in contact at all which created a lot of problems with my High School.

I feel very excited to start my placement with Active Stirling and I feel that Craig has a very good relationship with all of us that he mentors as he gets in contact with us regularly and keeps us very updated on everything.