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Year 10 Work Experience 2005
 Name of the Work Experience placement:
Beech Green Primary School
Type of work experience:
- Helping with Reception and Year 1 children
How did you get there each day:
- My mum is a teacher in the school so she drove me there every day.
In general, what sort of things did you have to do:
- Group work, take children in the IT suite, read to children, help children
with work, supervising the children at break and lunchtime, photocopying and
display work etc.
What did you think of the work experience:
- I really enjoyed my work experience. When I first went into the primary
school I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to teach or not, but by the time work
experience had ended I wanted to be a teacher. On the first couple of days I
helped with the reception children but on the third day I had a go at helping
the year one children. I think that I enjoyed working with year 1 more than
reception because the children’s work is more challenging (they start to make
up descriptive sentences etc), in the future I would like to work with primary
school children.
Daily diary:
- Monday: My first day at Beech Green Primary School. The topic in
reception that the children are learning about now is Noah’s Ark. Children did
activity’s to be getting on with all day which were related to Noah’s Ark
(they made clay animals and painted them, they wrote short sentences and
coloured in pictures from Noah’s Ark etc). The children who needed help on
spelling words I helped by holding a letter up in front of them and they had
to say what letter came next. I helped children mix paint to make different
colours.
- Tuesday: Still in reception. When children arrived at school we
took them to an IT suite so they could play on a game concerning maths, they
enjoyed it. The activities carried on from Monday for the rest of the day.
- Wednesday: I decided to go into Year 1 and see how different it is
from reception. Before the children came into school I did some photocopying
and stuck the children’s homework in their books to take home at the end of
the day. When children first came in they all sat down on the carpet. We went
through all the different ways that you can describe a shell and I wrote the
describing words down on a word document on the class projector. After
break-time, the children made a human clock and tried to tell the time. I took
a numeracy group on my own and the children had to write down an hour before
and an hour after the given time (I used clocks to help them). After lunch the
children learnt how to write their addresses on a postcard and then the
children had a road safety talk.
- Thursday: Back in reception for the next two days. Children’s new
topic is dinosaurs and they are doing activities on this topic. The children
made dinosaurs out of cardboard cuttings and listened to dinosaur music.
- Friday: Children carried on with activities from the day before.
They made dinosaurs out of play dough. After lunchtime the children were read
a story out of dinosaurs. The teacher and a student teacher came in to have a
sing-a-long with the class, which the children really loved. In the afternoon
the children painted rainbows in different shades of colour and painted their
cardboard dinosaurs.
Any special skills that were needed:
- IT skills, being able to photocopy, you have to like children to enjoy it.
Any other requirements such as special clothing or safety equipment:
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