WEEK #4 (8-12 August 2016)

Lückhoff 

This week it was a school holiday and a public holiday Monday and Tuesday so it was shorter, but I felt just as much exhausted afterwards. I gave my first LO lesson to the Gr8s this week, next week I have them again with Me Conradie coming to evaluate me. I felt it went well up to a point. I felt it worked well to start of with an introduction and a code of conduct I made up for Life Orientation class. But a few learners came late and they were also the ones who didn't hear the code of conduct and kept breaking it. It is quite taxing to be interrupted with irrelevant questions. And it became clear that the learners asking was testing me, my patience and pushing boundries on purpose. It did feel though like I got the class' attention and got them to cooperate with me and things went well until I gave them an activity. At this point the teacher brought in a child that missed the entire lesson and was trying to bunk and he was not participating at all. I went to him individually and tried explaining some of the concepts and what he must do. But got no real response. I didn't quite no how to handle it. The level of not caring and not respecting a teacher was new to me.    

PJ Olivier

I was approached by a teacher from  Lückhoff to paint her classroom and I have commenced planning. I decided to involve the other student art teacher, my dear friend, Suné Burger, so it can also count as an extra mural for her. We have been finding it very difficult to work in extra mural hours considering that we are at PJ Olivier from before our other school closes until 17h00 every day. So I approached the painting teacher, our self chosen mentor, at PJ Olivier, she is our inspiration (we both want to be her when we grow up). She helped me get direction, we decided to label it as a PJ Olivie outreach so it can count for Suné and she would donate some paints to use. I started looking for images which fit the description of what the teacher wanted and also talked to the teacher about involving learners to help paint. I am really excited as it is the first time I organise something like this and it seems like it is really going to come together quite nicely.