Experience

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  Positive Futures: Achieving Dreams. Transforming Lives.

  • Bangor, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  • Support worker

    • Aug 2019 - Present
    • Bangor, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

    As a support worker I have the opportunity to support and help those with additional needs and mental/physical disabilities. I am constantly striving to make the person I supports day by thinking of du and exciting things that can make that bit of a difference. I hope to teach one day, and I believe my degree in Drama benefits me greatly with communicating to those who are non-verbal,/autistic etc or that maybe find communicating difficulties, I am always looking for new ways to communicate and have recently started using Makaton. My job is very challenging, but if anything extremely rewarding.

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  Mitchell House School Marmont Park

  • Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  • Student on Placement (shadowing the teacher and teaching their class every week for 15 weeks)

    • Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
    • Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

    As a final year Drama student studying at QUB, I had the chance to teach children in East Belfast with additional and physical needs Drama. Over the 15 weeks I began with a p6 class working with them on a weekly basis to help develop their confidence, communication, creativity, imagination as well as simply to have fun. I then in the year of 2019 started with the first years. Each week I would come in with a new topic, we explored: mime, devising, improvisation, scriptwriting, acting for camera, pantomime, greek theatre and so fourth. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Mitchell House, and It was absolutely fantastic to see the students benefit from a subject I am so passionate about, furthermore would hope to teach myself someday!