Think carefully what this includes. What information can you gather to inform your audience about your placement, the type of setting and its features?
Features include: the demographics, the student population (academic, socio-economic, cultural etc), age range, specialisms, physical features, history, and wider community links.
Think about the strengths of the placement. What does the placement itself claim to be its strengths? Can you find data? Think about: Ofsted, Ethos and Mission statements, policy documents. What about the structure of the setting and the professionals within the placement setting?
What impressions can you give and do you have about your setting? This can be informed by the experience you have so far or you hope to have based on your knowledge of the placement setting. Think about your audience, how you can demonstrate that you have investigated your placement and can represent your impressions in an informed way.
To impress further, what topics of interest stand out about your placement?
What observations can you hope or have you already arranged, witnessed that have help to form further impressions and ways to understand your placement.
How can your reading of relevant literature help to support your interest?
Citing website or official documents related to your placement setting:
For the purpose of good ethical practice, you should maintain the anonymity of the school placement setting. If you refer to their website in brackets write (school website 2017*) and include an asterisk (*) so that you can write in your bibliography *for ethical purposes I have maintained the anonymity of the placement.LAYOUT:
Think about situating the ‘name’ of your setting in a central that makes the name clear . Think about sub-headings for your content: ‘About me’, ‘Setting information’; Specific topics of interest’; ‘bibliography’.