{"id":483,"date":"2014-07-11T18:09:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T18:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/?p=483"},"modified":"2014-07-11T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T18:10:09","slug":"week-2-derbyshire-wildlife-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/2014\/07\/11\/week-2-derbyshire-wildlife-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 &#8211; Derbyshire Wildlife trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Week 2 has produced some new challenges, I&#8217;ve been involved in a few different activities\u00a0in comparison to\u00a0last week and have also grown in confidence enough to lead a few of the activities I&#8217;ve become more comfortable with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">On Tuesday I spent the day with the rangers\u00a0getting an experience of\u00a0what they do, I spent most the day doing weeding, although this probably wasn&#8217;t the most exciting activity to be involved in,\u00a0 they did promise me that next time I&#8217;m with them it&#8217;ll be in a more\u00a0interesting line of work. I&#8217;ve also arranged a meeting to speak with a\u00a0ranger who had a large involvement in the production of the water cycle exhibition which will be really useful for my project,\u00a0he will be able to give me more information about the planning and production of the display.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/files\/2014\/07\/thA2LRB8Y1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\" wp-image-485 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/files\/2014\/07\/thA2LRB8Y1.jpg\" alt=\"thA2LRB8Y1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0This week I was trusted in taking the responsibility of a mini beasting activity, which was\u00a0 nerve racking at first but after seeing how much the first group children enjoyed it, I felt a lot more confident for the next groups later that day. Working with various different wildlife trust staff, I find it interesting to watch all their different teaching styles and observe\u00a0the way they deal with different\u00a0situations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">On Friday I had probably one of my biggest challenges so far, having to\u00a0do a water filtration activity\u00a0with a group of children, all with learning difficulties; trying to help them to maintain their interest, while also paying extra special attention to ensure they were supervised in order to perform safe practise was a lot more difficult than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I look forward to getting involved in a\u00a0family event in small mammal trapping, to monitor the numbers of small mammals in the Carsington area &#8211; early morning start, have to be at work at 7:30am!<\/p>\n<p>So to sum it all up its been another productive week and I&#8217;ve been working hard on planning my project, I cant believe its already the end of the second week, I&#8217;ll be sad to\u00a0leave at the\u00a0end of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 2 has produced some new challenges, I&#8217;ve been involved in a few different activities\u00a0in comparison to\u00a0last week and have also grown in confidence enough to lead a few of the activities I&#8217;ve become more comfortable with. 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