Scoil Naomh Bríd - Celbridge

This week I started my Work Experience. I went to my old primary school , St.Bridget's in Celbridge because it is something I'm thinking about doing when I leave school. I woke up at 7 o'clock to be in school for 9:10, to my suprise I wasn't tired at all but anxious to see what was in store for me.

                   I walked into reception and saw four other girls from my year which made me slightly calmer. I was so nervous at the start of the day because I didn't know what I was going to have to do. The other members of staff were so welcoming and a pleasure to work with. We each got assigned one class to work in. I got assigned to a senior infants class. I went into the classroom and the teacher kindly introduced me to the kids.

                    I was the 'art teacher' for the day. I was given the task of making patterns with the children. The topic was 'patterns' so I had to paint the back of jigsaw pieces and print them on sheets. Each piece had to be in a pattern and had to face the same direction , this was difficult to try and tell the children but I simplified it and made it easy for them to do.When the children went home at 2:10 I stayed with the class teacher for an hour and sorted out their class folders.

                    At the start of the day the principal told us our lunch times but the clock in my room was broken so I had no way of telling the time. I was late for lunch twice but nobody noticed because all the 'work experience girls' eat lunch at the same time. I luckily still had 20 minutes to eat lunch and everything was ok. The best part of the day was painting with the children.