During the project, working within the school in a
professional context has been an eye opening experience. Prior to unit x I had
no experience of working in a primary school, so when the opportunity came up I
was very eager to join this group to work in the primary school. As this area
of work was new to me, I was unsure what to expect. However, the duration of
the project has been reassuring that working in a professional school context isn’t
as scary as I thought. The experience has highlighted a few areas of
professionalism that my group and I excelled in.
Being part of the Northendon Primary School group, I am
confident that we have worked together within the school with a good level of
professionalism. We were all punctual and reliable when sticking to the times agreed
to meet at the school. Punctuality, attendance and how reliable you are when it
comes to these two things are very important in the professional world. We have
shown that our group can arrange a meeting time and place and stick to it to a
good standard.
Our group was well organised when it came to preparing for
the workshops that we had planned for the class. We had several meetings before
the actual workshop days and made sure that we had the right resources to take
in with us, and that each member of the group knew exactly what we would be
doing. Our group communication skills started off at an average standard, but
throughout the unit our group communication grew to an excellent level. We were
in contact with each other most days via phone, text, or the facebook group,
which meant that our standard of professionalism could be kept high. For example,
if one member was unsure of something we could easily be contacted and explain
things.
The first visit to the school was surprising to me, I was
half expecting to be greeted by a group of excitable and unmanageable children.
I was most worried about not being able to feel in control of the children and
that they would not listen to my instructions. However, Vicky, the teacher
spoke to us before we met the class and assured us that we could be in as
little or as much control as we wanted to be. The talk before the first
workshop session with the school was very helpful as it allowed us to firstly
meet the teacher, and to ask certain questions such as, what did she want the
children to call us by, our first names or formally with our surnames? (E.g.
Vanessa or Miss Latchford) These kinds of questions were good to get out of the
way straight away at this first meeting so that we were all sure from then on.
We had already thought of a few questions to ask before arriving at the school,
I was confident that we were well prepared.
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