My Work Experience: Ardtornish Children's Centre

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For my work experience placement, I attended the Ardtornish children's centre in St Agnes. Despite it not being my first choice, due to circumstances I was luckily able to apply there for my work experience. The procedure was quite simple because there weren’t numerous legal requirements and it was simple to do so. However, there were 2 main reasons to why I choose to do my work experience their firstly it would help me with my communication skills with others and because my supervisor was very respectful and kind to me.
On the first day of my work experience. I had a tense feeling around my muscles due to the new environment. But before I could start my work experience. My supervisor gave tour around the workplace areas such as emergency

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