After the manic start to the beginning of the week by Thursday I usually have a few quiet days left to my week. Luckily today I get a later start so I can chill out with the dog before work.
11am-I've had a few e-mails since a last got chance to check yesterday so I start of my morning replying and have a glance over my to do list. Usually Thursday/Friday are my get your head down and work days as I don't have many groups of young people on those days. Today I decided to tackle our Volunteer Job Descriptions. We've had young people volunteer at the centre for a number of years now but each year we have more interest. Many of our members are doing a local award in volunteering. To complete this they need to completed a training course about child protection, working with others and many more skills. They also set themselves targets and goals. Other young people are completed their Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme and choose to volunteer with us. Over the past few weeks we've had too many people for roles that we had, so as a staff team we sat down the other week and thought of some tasks that staff could support young people to complete such as staffing the coffee bar area, helping send out letters, running sports activities, and running the committee.
12pm-Every Thursday during term time I work with a school group which are part of a PRU (Pupil Referral Unit). The are only a small team which means they don't get to have as many facilities as bigger schools may have so for a bit of a treat and in exchange for me 'informally educating them' for some of the time they call in to the centre. Many of the pupils who attend are in between other schools for many different reasons, usually its a bit like being a piece of a jigsaw that would fit better elsewhere. Today we I gave them a 5 minute run through of my 'alcohol on the brain' activity explain how it affects your brain as you drink more and more. We then did a bit of crafts and games and discussed doing some baking next week for Children in Need.
1:30pm-With so much stuff going off earlier this week, I now need to chase up many other projects and after a chat about girls groups, pop up shops and more volunteer opportunities I head over to the other centre with a load of resources for the evening.
4pm-Couple more meetings this afternoon about progressing some projects and I finally head out of work for the day....
Now usually I've been talking about work stuff so I'd finish there but Thursdays when I'm not needed elsewhere at work I am a Guide/Senior Section leader. I've been in the guiding movement since I was 8 and where possible like to help out, sadly I ended up letting the girls down a bit this week as a ran out of time to sort the activity I hoped to do but I did find a nice giant poppy activity (I'll add the link incase anyone wants to give it a go!)
6:30pm Arrive at Guides and set group off making poppies while pointing out how they best not make a mess as the Rainbows, with whom I'll be doing a similar activity tomorrow, are amazingly good at tidying up and they are 5yrs old!
7:30pm-Break off to chat with one of the Young Leaders about how she is doing at Brownies with her qualification and sign some paperwork.
8pm- Return to guides to find double sided tape stuck to tables and white scraps of paper all over the floor and proceed to lecture them about how I had high hopes for them, while showing them pictures of the Rainbows and there fantastic ability to do things. (better luck next week girls!)
10pm-While writing blog post consider setting up a competition between Guides and Rainbows to see who is the best at tidying up, the 5-7 year olds or the 10-14yr olds!??!?
Links:
http://www.marthastewart.com/270577/giant-paper-poppy-flower-decoration
http://www.nya.org.uk/supporting-youth-work/youth-work-week/
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