Author Archives: Cher Gates

Today is Friday and our final day of work experience, tomorrow morning we have our flight back to Dublin. It has been an amazing experience and having never been to mainland Spain before, I haven’t been disappointed. It was harder than I imagined it would be on my last day in the SNA unit inContinue reading “Friday – Day 10 – week 2”

Today was slightly different in school as all the kids in the school, including our class, were mostly wearing white tops and after lunch, were all out on the playground in their class lines. Today is a special day , it’s World Peace day so we had the whole school out there in the playgroundContinue reading “Thursday – Day 9 – week 2”

Sunday was a relaxation day so instead of hanging around the room all day, myself and a friend from the trip decided to have a look around in an area we hadn’t visited before. We found a nice little café and had a sandwich and coffee. Then we just had a wonderful walk around toContinue reading “Day 6 – Sunday”

Today we met up with the coach at 9am to head over to the Nerja caves. The journey was roughly 45 mins. Once we got there we all made our way to the caves with our guide, to say the caves are amazing is an understatement. They are incredible and the stalagmites and stalactites areContinue reading “Saturday 25th – Day 5 – Trip to Nerja, the caves and a stop off at Frigiliana”

The day in the classroom started just past 9am this morning and proceeded slowly. In my observations since shadowing is that the teachers tend to set the pace around the children’s moods. Today some of the kids were a little unhappy and crying so the video’s were put on earlier to help calm them down.Continue reading “Friday – Day 4 – week one”

Today my day in my work placement was pretty much the same as my previous days except that we had two extra people in to help. The morning was the same as in we played TV-time songs. Then afterwards the teachers set up a table with a backlit top. See through plastic pictures were putContinue reading “My Erasmus+ trip 2025”

On Monday 20th January we were introduced to our workplaces, mine is as an SNA, I began working in my work placement on Tuesday 21st. I met with the principal of the school on Monday where I’d be doing my work experience and hot it off straight away. So, I went in on Tuesday forContinue reading “My Erasmus trip”

I am in my second year of a part-time two year course studying to become an SNA, Special Needs Assistant, and this is my very first trip/visit to mainland Spain. I have taken some beautiful photos from the locals city centre which is across the bridge from the students accommodation.