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| The SCCO Building |
Hi all, my name is
Georgia, I am in year 12 and through my sixth form I have been doing work
experience at Nottingham Trent University; week commencing 20th June 2016 to
the 24th June 2016. You might think this sounds dull, maybe
you’ve already got a part time job and you feel you’re already experienced, but
let me tell you, this week has opened so many new doors for me, it’s provided
me REAL ‘experience’. Throughout the course of the week I have taken part in a
variety of different activities that have given me opportunities to learn new
skills. I will talk you through what I have been up to.
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| Me and some of the SCCO staff |
Monday was my first day of work experience here at
Nottingham Trent University and of course, I was nervous and I didn’t really
have a clue what it was going to be like but I arrived with an open mind and a
passion to learn. I went along with one of the SCCO staff called Lucy to a year
9 visit. This involved telling the
pupils more about university and what university experience would have in store
for them. Throughout the course of the day there were various activities taking
place, two of which were taster sessions which gave pupils an insight to the
kind of subjects available at university. We then went for a tour around the City
site to show the pupils the different areas of the university. This went really
well and all the pupils were very interested. One room in particular room caught
the pupils’ interest, the law room. It is
laid out like a real court room. Some pupils are hoping to do law in higher education
so it benefited them to see this. On this day I learnt a lot that I didn’t know
about university subjects and I really enjoyed looking around the university
and getting a feel of what university life is like. It was also a chance to get
my bearings on where I would be working all week.
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| Court Room in the law building |
On my second day I was feeling a lot more
optimistic. I was based at Clifton campus which I didn’t get a feel for as much
as I did the city site; it felt enclosed and had less of a vibe. I was taking
part in a year 5 visit which I thoroughly enjoyed. The children were engaged
and wanted to be there and the presenter, Tash, made it really interesting and
did everything appropriately for that age group to understand and enjoy. We
made puppets with the children, which they really enjoyed and got involved in.
I even enjoyed making one myself! I developed my skills in child care and I
felt I have learnt more about how to act with someone that age and adapt my
language and communication around different age groups. The point of the day
was to give the year 5’s
an insight into what moving up to comprehensive school would be like; I felt
this aim was achieved.
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| Arkwright Building - City site |
Wednesday was a good day! I attended, again at
Clifton campus, ‘Raise the Grade French’ this was with year 10 pupils so they
were well behaved and made the day easy for us helpers. I feel this massively
achieved its aim and benefited the students brilliantly. I don’t do French
myself so I struggled to help them out but watching them learn and develop
their skills was really useful for me to see how one day can really boost your
learning skills. There was a revision session where the students were given
advice on how to revise so although I’m not doing French, I developed skills on
revision and learnt new techniques.
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| Me in the Newton Building |
Thursday
Thursday was hectic! It was a year 12 visit consisting of 80
students so as you can imagine the room was jam packed!! I learnt that although
year 12 are closest to going to university compared to year 5’s, 9 and 10, they
were the least engaged which shocked me quite a bit. I think the aims of the
session were met but it was difficult for the presenter to get his point across
over all the talking and noise that was going on. This was my least favourite
day so far.
My final day of work experience! I’m going to miss it! I
wrote up my blog and spoke to various members of staff about the jobs they do.
It was really interesting to learn about all the different jobs the one
department do and how they work as a team. I was impressed.
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