Well, not quite, i had training for my new job today.
After complaining about the council in my rant a few weeks ago, they actually decided to give me a job, that was nice of them. My official position is “sessional playworker”. I get paid £7 an hour, and i have lots of training this week. Today, we had to go through the councils policies and procedures, which was more exciting than watching paint dry, but not as exciting as Ben Affleck getting shot(still miffed bout that). They showed us a video about Glasgow, but it wasn’t the Glasgow we all know, oh no, this was the Glasgow to come. If you didn’t live in Glasgow, it would make you want to live here, cos it shows nice and pretty things(that haven’t happened yet, and probably won’t either).
Besides that, we got shown a video on the first aid procedures. It was actually a mini casualty. If you’ve ever seen the show, you’ll know what i mean. It shwed a scenario that could go wrong in some way, then it did go wrong, then we were sgown how to deal with it, was pretty entertaining(well, the bad acting was anyway).
Then, in the afternoon, we split into two groups. For the first hour, group 1(my group) done an excercise on “what is a playworker?”. this helped outline what my job actually would entail and what i’d be doing, twas helpful. Then for the second hour we spoke about inclusion of play, which was all about making sure that ALL children can join in the game, which was specifically aimed at including disabled children, somehting which i’d never touched upon before, again, incredibly helpful. The training so far has been very good, my opinion of the council has improved just over one day, as kids futures are important to them, and to me.
Training later on in the week includes:
Parachute games, ball games, games with no equipment, nonsense(don’t have a clue bout that one) and team challenges(team building stuff i think, which should be fun).
There were alot of nice people there, very easy to get on with. We all know how hard I find it to talk to new people,lol. I actually told the people i was talking to that if i was talking too much just to tell me to shut up,lol. One thing I did notice, there were only about 14 males at the training, including myself, out of 70 people, roughly. Not that i’m complaining, just thought i’d make note.
Also met a friend of my mums, who’s a student at Glasgow Uni and my mum put her on teacher placement, so she gave me a lift home,and will give me a life there aswell tomorrow, SCORE!
End of the long post
cheezy