Community

Overall I didn't really enjoy community but I know the importance of it and I know that I put all my efforts into this term and working with the boys. I have learnt that the most important role is team leader and that there should only be one of these at a time because this way everyone have one person to follow and there is no confusion. Also, by having multiple people in charge in one session but with only one of them taking the role up as team leader at a time, it makes the participants feel more equal to the leaders. If I ever did anything like this again I'm sure it would be completely different considering the fact that there were different children all week and we were aiming to create a performance. Therefore I believe I would enjoy the process more.

Today's visit was amazing. We were thrown in at the deep end because Lucy, Martha and Amelia were absent but this actually worked in our favour. With Lucy's absence I think the boys felt less like they were in a teaching or led environment and were more comfortable sharing their ideas and feelings with everyone else. With less students in the room it also probably felt like they were being controlled less.  Nick and I attended the session without much of a plan because Lucy was going to lead most of the session. Because of this we were forced to think off of our heads and improvise with what we would do before we went on to creating posters (this was planned roughly).  We warmed up with a shake out followed bu splat which we played a few times and only one boy stayed out. However, by the end of the first games he could see that the other boys were having so much fun and wanted to join in the game. We then went on to play sardines which for the first time the boys seemed...