Friday's lesson was The One! At the beginning of this term I wanted to have a choice of what project I was being put on but when the Young Offenders came in and we got started I had a complete change of heart and realised this is the project I want to do!
At the beginning, we had a little run through of how the lesson would go, playing our games with each other before the arrived at school. Then they came and it was like the room went from light to red hot fire. I honestly didn't feel no awkwardness at all, we had a few of us around the circle sitting next to them which was good. The first game we played really set the tone for something special, having everyone split up and find two things the other person enjoys and finding out their name. The next game I thought was one to try boost the morale of everyone in the room and it did! Had everyone talking to each other to find out who's name begins with an A and who's begins with a Z. It created much laughter and happiness throughout the room and in my opinion was a really successful one.
Skipping to my game; which in all honesty I thought was the best one simply because of the feedback I got from some of the boys in the group. My game was called sunshine, and it consisted of one person being in the middle and saying something that everyone sitting down in the circle can relate to. For example, I would be in the middle and I would say 'Anyone who has played basketball' and then anyone who has played basketball would then get up and try to move seat. After this 15 minute game was done I was surprised to have a few saying 'That game was sick' meaning, that game was good! And I had Kyle come up to me and say, 'That's a calm game bruv, we should do that again' and from then I realised these Young Offenders aren't the people we would judge by their cover but once getting to know them there's a lot more to them than that.
Last but not least, we had a little tour of the school, showing them around and we had a positive one. As most of them love the gym, letting them know that we had a gym full of equipment, brought a positive reaction out of them, something that let them be themselves even more. There was one person I felt shows some huge potential in terms of letting themselves be heard and that's Ricardo. At the beginning he didn't want to play the Eastenders game and then at the end of the session he said how he would love to do something in terms of music, 'not live but recorded' and that made me think that he has so much to prove on this course and I'm positive he will. I'm positive all of them will.
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