Year 10 Work Experience 2005

Name of the Work Experience placement:

Andrew Mitchell sculptures (Bruno Bronze)

Type of work experience:

• Cleaning a first world war sculpture.

How did you get there each day?

• I got a lift from Andrew Mitchell

In general, what sort of things did you have to do?

• Clean sculptures with joss machine, scrub it down, wash it down, get there lunch and set out the equipment

What did you think of the work experience?

• It was much better than I thought it would be. It was hot and I was working outside so it was very relaxed but I can imagine it being a bit miserable if it was raining. The work was fun and my employers gave me the chance to do a lot more than I thought I would be able to.

Daily diary:

• Monday: Just watched Person using joss machine helped out setting up equipment.
• Tuesday: did some joshing my self. The joss Machine sprays out sand and water very hard and fast onto a sculpture and cleans off the horrible green dirt. I joshed a plak with a picture of an angle, child mother and disseat war veteran on it.
• Wednesday: I scrubbed the Bronze plak down with a bronze brush and just general helped out here and there.
• Thursday: I joshed and scrubbed another plak but one with just war veteran names on it.
• Friday: I finished off the plaks by putting on a protective kind of varnish and washed them down.

Any special skills that were needed:

• Just general basic resistant material skills are useful.

Any other requirements such as special clothing or safety equipment:

• Yes overalls, helmets, protective eyewear sometimes and toe shielded boots