Tuesday and Wednesday I supported workshop leaders at Hillsborough Fitness centre, a great venue as they were seen by lots of the general public who took great interest in all the colourful equipment and obvious fun the children were having at our event. The children were of varied skill levels, but there were so many different pieces of equipment and circus skills being taught that there was something for all the participants to get really stuck into working with. Definitely most enjoyable workshop so far, the performance for the parents was a great success.
Thursday saw me in the office inputting evaluative data created by children after workshops then making brief conclusions from the data collected. A comment that I noticed was repeated occasionally was the children wanted to know when it was possible for them to do more circus training. Maybe providing a leaflet at the end of the course saying where swamp is based and holding regular weekly training would be of value to these children or directing them to the website. Though I am unsure whether this is feasible as I don’t know Sheffield as an area and how far distances from Swamp’s regular training places would be.
Friday was a drop in day at Heeley youth club, the children were from a deprived area and the event was set up by a mother’s group intent on providing something constructive for their children during the summer holidays. Though other activities had been provided to the children a majority of the children chose to join in the circus training, the more relaxed atmosphere felt like a playing session to the children, so consequently probably they were more receptive to the skills as they were more relaxed and open to them and enjoyed it more.
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