Work Experience: Day 1

Work Experience: Day 1 

Not all schools provide this opportunity, but my school certainly does. 

Work Experience is a week or two (depending what subjects you selected to study for the two years) to try out what our future job is like, maybe not even future job, just a little taster.

For my Work Experience 'taster' I selected a placement at a local Primary School. Not as that I might become a teacher in a future, but... I did try to get other placements like an Airport for example but they were not accepting at the moment and that I was also too young.

As you may know I'm only 15, and not every place allowed Work Experience placements at the age of 15. You have to be at least 16.

Luckily I was allowed to attend a primary school (and so I will for the week).

You may be wondering what this blog is about, but this blog is going to be about, this blog is going to be about what I done during the first and second day, and what I wore.

Day 1

First day, I met up with my friends on the train station platform and we walked to the primary school together and then we met another 2 friends. When we arrived at the school we was greeted by the reception lady or sectary (ugh, not too sure on that one) and she told us to sit and wait on the benches. By that time many school pupils already came to school or was still coming and you could see all the primary school pupils go into their classes and get ready.

The headmistress didn't greet us until 9:15, as she had a meeting with some other teachers but when she did, she welcomed us to the school and she told us the code of conduct - basically rules in other words. And then she asked us where would we like to be placed and of course, if I do become a teacher in the future, it's either a teacher for nursery teacher or maybe a language teacher - but at the moment, I'm still focusing on becoming a future Air Cabin Crew member.

After we was welcomed into the school by the headmistress we went to our classrooms and we helped out. As I was with the nursery children, I helped them do some animal footprints as the class teacher told me and Fern that the pupils had recently been looking at Jungle Animals. So the Pupils, I and Fern did some tiger and lion footprints using paint. At 10:00AM it was our break, so we went into this little room where we would be able to meet up again with some other people that came to Work Experience with me. Our break lasted for half an hour and after break we took the nursery children out in the yard to play.

Out in the yard, we snag some songs and ran about. After that the children went back to their classrooms had a little story then they went for Lunch. During the pupils lunch we had to help cut up their food and then give out their deserts and drinks. Once they have finished their dinner we had to clean off all the food from their plates and the pile up their plates and forks/knifes. Once the pupils had their lunch we had to take them back to their classroom and then we were able to have our lunch. Our lunch break is on 45 minutes. 

During my lunch break I helped Eliza film her 'Week 2 - Work Experience Book' which I think would be uploaded pretty much soon. Eliza and I do not have the same placement. Eliza goes to a day care nursery type? And I jut got to a primary school plus Eliza gets to finish before me too.. CRY :( Eliza gets to finish at 12PM and I only get to finish at 3:10PM :(.

Here is a glimpse of some of the pictures we took

Smart Causal OOTD

The dress code for my placement in a Primary School is 'Smart Casual.'

So my outfit for Day 1 is:

• Scarf from Fendi
• Dress from New Look
• Opaque Tights from Marks and Spencers
• Ankle Boots from Dorothy Perkins

I'm not so sure what Eliza's dress code for her Work Experience placement is, but I'm sure she would tell us in her Work Experience Look Book.

When lunch was over, we went back to class and we helped the pupils do some work. Fern and I taught the children one by one what a 'Foal, Calf, Kid, Duckling, Chick, Goosling, Lamp and Piglet' was and who were their parents 'Horse, Cow, Goat, Duck, Chicken, Goose, Sheep and Pig'. We most probably taught about 15 pupils altogether and then it was break time again and the children got to go in the yard and play again until there was 15 minutes left before the end of the day before a story book and home time.