Ben T's Blog

Day 2

Today we went to San Carlo School for the second time this week, compared to the previous visit this was a lot more beneficial because of how involved we became when leading the different activities in the lessons.

The first lesson that we attended was skipping. The children were being assessed in the ability of skipping. The teacher was calling up the kids one by one to mark the ability; they were judge upon how many skips they could perform. We then decided to create and run an activity that involved the whole class instead of individual performances. We did this by running through a long skipping rope without touching the rope. This interacted all of the pupils instead of them waiting to be assessed, this was a major positive in the day.

The second activity was handball; we led the game at the end of the session, separating the groups into 4 creating a tournament. Before the game the pupils had to warm up, we were asked to too create and run a warm up for the kids we did a simple game of Traffic Lights. This was very beneficial, as we had to create and run our own warm up session and lead the full session.

We then went over to the swimming pool to observe the lesson. This was the most disappointing aspect of the day as we couldn’t get involved in the session as much as we would like, this was understandable as there was a swimming gala which was exciting to watch, the races were exciting as it was different to what happens in our school this was the reason behind our lack of involvement in this session.