Even though in the beginning of the service we were not allowed to meet up with our service partner, we were able to find other ways to ensure that we providing them with materials they needed as well as make videos of us reading children books so that they were still learning english with us. It was hard to stay focused and committed as the service struggled to come up with new ideas and also because we couldn’t get proper feedback from the service partners.

However, around the middle of the year we were granted permission to meet up with the kids and I think this helped us as we could see more clearly the areas we need to improve, i.e. whether we were keeping the kids engaged or the best methods of teaching them english. (LO4, commitment)

Interacting with our service partner one of the main themes in our sessions was educating the kids about life on land and life under water as well as climate change. We prepared a various number of activities for them incorporating the nature of animals and affects of climate change on life under water. (LO7, global issue)

Something we were careful of is when the kids were fasting due to their culture. In this period the service organised less active sessions as well as avoiding any pictures to do with pigs. We tried to organise and plan the sessions more carefully in order to respect their culture and make them as comfortable as possible. (LO6, ethical decision)