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Problem Solving Task - 07/11/2022 - Development

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Problem Solving Task - 07/11/2022 - Development

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Today in developing essential skills class the first part of our task was to solve a puzzle. to solve the puzzle we had to figure out how to get a man, a fox, a chicken and a bag of corn across a river in a boat. the boat can only carry the man and one other thing. I found this task difficult.

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Numeracy Worksheets- 11/1/2023 - Reinforcement

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Numeracy Worksheets- 11/1/2023 - Reinforcement

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Today in numeracy I was given worksheets with questions on them that I had to work through to solve the problems in the questions. I found these worksheets easy.
i.e Margaret gets £25 a week in pocket money. She spends £14.65 on bus fares, £4.75 on sweets and she saves the rest. How long will it take her to save up to buy a new bike which costs £187.

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Work Placement - 2/12/2022 - Development 

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Work Placement - 2/12/2022 - Development 

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Today in the playroom I help in it was one of the children’s birthday. At snack time the staff lit a candle in a cupcake and everyone sang happy birthday but the child got upset and started crying, we didn’t know why they were upset so me and another staff member comforted them until they stopped crying.

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Since it was the first week of his course a lot of our classes have changed to a different room than what was originally on or timetable.

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Classroom Change - 4/1/2023 - Reinforcement

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Classroom Change - 4/1/2023 - Reinforcement

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Today I showed up to class to find a note on the door telling me that my class had been moved to the library. I managed to read the message and get to where I was meant to be in good time, the disruption to my routine didn't really affect me.

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Active Listening Task - 24/10/2022 - Development

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Active Listening Task - 24/10/2022 - Development

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Today in developing essential skills class we played a game called what do you see, in this game we were split into pairs. Player 1 was given a piece of paper with an picture on it, while player 2 had to draw the same picture (without seeing it) by asking player 1 questions about their picture.

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Work Placement - 2/12/2022 - Reinforcement

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Work Placement - 2/12/2022 - Reinforcement

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Today after the children had finished their lunch I worked together with one of the other girls in the room to help the children clean their hands and faces before they went to get their nappies changed before nap time.

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Essential Skills Evaluation - 12/9/2022 - Development

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Essential Skills Evaluation - 12/9/2022 - Development

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In developing essential skills class I had to pick ten skills that relate to two different jobs, I then had to self evaluate to decide if each skill was a strength or a weakness and why I thought it was a strength or not. I found it very difficult to self evaluate and write down the reasons for each evaluation.

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New Year Reflection Task- 4/1/2023 - Reinforcement

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New Year Reflection Task- 4/1/2023 - Reinforcement

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Today in work safety I took part in a new year activity reflecting on 2022, this meant evaluating my achievements from the past ear and things I could have done better. I found it difficult to evaluate my own achievements.

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Spaghetti Tower Challenge - 28/11/2022 - Development

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Spaghetti Tower Challenge - 28/11/2022 - Development

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In developing essential skills we did a spaghetti tower challenge. In this challenge we had to work as a team to come up with a plan for a spaghetti tower strong enough to hold a marshmallow, once we were done we then had 30 minutes to build a tower based on our plan. I found planning our tower fairly easy because we had good communication and everyone contributed ideas to help make our plan and backup plan.

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Work Placement - 09/12/2022 - Reinforcement 

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Work Placement - 09/12/2022 - Reinforcement 

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After lunch time most of the children go down for a nap but some children get picked up at this time. when parents ring the buzzer to pick up their child the other children get upset because they think that its their parent there to pick them up. When they started crying I had to help comfort them so that they wouldn’t wake the other children.

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Work Placement - October/November 2022 - reinforcement

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Work Placement - October/November 2022 - reinforcement

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Before I started my work placement I had to communicate with both my work placement coordinator and the manager at the nursery I'm doing my work placement at. I had to go to a placement meeting to find out what day I would attend my placement and arrange an induction and start date.

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Today in digital skills we learned how to use shapes in Microsoft word to make business logos. I found this task difficult because I had never used Microsoft word to make a logo before and I had to figure out how to layer the shapes properly.

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Work Placement - 25/11/2022 - Reinforcement

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Work Placement - 25/11/2022 - Reinforcement

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For my work placement I'm helping out at almond park nursery on Fridays. since today was my first day i had to observe the rest of the staff . I also had to observe the children to make sure they were being kind to each other, that they all keep their shoes on and aren't doing anything dangerous i.e. climbing on the bookshelf and standing on the chairs. i found this relatively easy.

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Using Microsoft Forms - 04/10/2022 - Development

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Using Microsoft Forms - 04/10/2022 - Development

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In digital skills class with Alastair he showed us how to use forms to make a quiz and how to hand it in on moodle. I found this task difficult because I had never used forms or moodle before.

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Using Teams Calendar - 05/12/2022 - Reinforcement

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Using Teams Calendar - 05/12/2022 - Reinforcement

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today in developing essential skills we learned how to use the calendar on Microsoft teams to help plan our week. I found this task easy because I've used other calendars with a similar layout to help me stay organised before.

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Microsoft Word Task - 22/11/2022 - reinforcement

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Microsoft Word Task - 22/11/2022 - reinforcement

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Today in digital skills we used shapes in Microsoft word to recreate an existing picture. the picture I was given to recreate is the queen of spades playing card, I found this task easy because I had already learned how to use shapes but at the same time difficult because there were a lot of small details in the picture that I had to recreate.

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In work safety class with Fiona we had to watch a video and take notes to help answer questions at the end. I found it difficult to focus on the video and take notes at the same time.

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Helping someone in an alcohol induced accident (Part 1) Story of a teen night out 30 mins #FirstAid

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Using Padlet - October 2022 - Reinforcement

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Using Padlet - October 2022 - Reinforcement

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In developing essential skills class with Jen we learned how to use padlet to record tasks we do in all our classes. we learned how to post images, text, links and documents.

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Hello Yellow Conversation Cards - 10/10/2022 - Development

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Hello Yellow Conversation Cards - 10/10/2022 - Development

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Today in class we were given questions to discuss in groups for hello yellow day. In our groups we would discuss the questions on the conversation cards to find out each other’s opinions , at the end our lecturer asked us what answer a different member of the group gave before changing groups. I found this okay but the communication between the first group was a little bit awkward because none of the group had spoken to each other before.