Reflectiev Practice

NO 1.

Session information;

Venue; Hubberston youth club

Date; February 2007.

Hours; 3

Background; Hubberston youth club is open every Monday, Wednesday

and Thursday evenings, to children aged 11-25. The

centre is popular with the local young people as there is plenty

of space for them to run around and plenty of activities for

them to be involved in.

Group size; 32 young people and 4 staff

Gender breakdown; 19 boys, 13 girls

Age; 11 - 20

Observations;

Initially some of the younger children had turned up early and were starting to complain that they were getting cold whilst waiting outside. I think this was because they were a little excited about going to youth club. Once in the club the boys went straight to the pool, darts and table-tennis, whilst the girls went on the computers and the dance mats. Some of the younger boys were showing off in front of the older boys, which was all right at first but the older boys soon became fed up, and things became a little rough, eventually leading to one of the younger boys being banned from youth club until September 2007. This was due to him lashing out and becoming very aggressive.

Finally, for the last hour a fitness lady came in to the club and organised a ‘3 a side game of football whilst sitting on space hoppers’. Everybody participated in this and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Feelings;

I heard one girl blackmailing one of the boys her own age and it was having the right effect as he went very quiet and was agreeing to everything she was saying. I listened for a while so I could consider my options of how to handle the situation, until she started to raise her voice so more people could here, which...