Once I had completed my 60 hours of placement, and prior to submitting my portfolio of work for my placement module, I asked me placement supervisor (K. Loughran - South Ribble School Sports Partnership Manager) for a reference with regards to my placement duties, my personal performance, any my upcoming tasks for June and in the foreseeable future.
See the reference below:
This reference from my placement supervisor brilliantly sums up some of my placement duties and performance. As initially highlighted in my beginning posts, my aims were developing my understanding of marketing communications, in both digital and print communications, and this is evidenced by the input in the social media platforms, and liaison with the local press. Also with the upcoming task of publishing celebratory brochures and posters highlighting our events for all of the schools in the South Ribble Borough.
In addition, as mentioned in the 2nd paragraph I will be working with South Ribble School Sports Partnership and the School Games for the Lancashire School Games Final, being held at the end of June in Blackpool. For this, I will helping out create a celebratory booklet and posters for schools, as well as creating another SSP video montage of the Lancashire School Games Final event, and the establishment of a SSP YouTube Channel to provide our target markets a source to find all of our video montages from past events.
These upcoming placement experiences, will further develop my communication skills, organisation, creativity, professionalism team working and independent working, and will be another key learning experience I can reflect upon to develop my self-awareness and overall employability.
I think that the last paragraph in the reference really sums up my time on placement, and I am happy that my placement supervisor considers me to be a great addition to the SSP team, always professional in all aspects, shows flexibility to additional tasks, and this has therefore resulted in the upcoming duties of me helping out with marketing and PR for the Lancashire School Games Final in June.
All in all, I consider my placement experience to be a great experience and a personal success. I was very happy to be given this brilliant undergraduate sports marketing placement, with a school sports company who had little input into digital communications and leasing with the press. I believe that all of my duties I carried out from October 2014 - April 201 have been very interesting and provided me with a lot of work, responsibility, and created many experiences I can now reflect back upon to develop my overall employability.
By linking in my placement experiences in the Career EDGE model, I can safely say that I have experienced all five key components on the foundation of the model, and have reflected upon my main experiences which have made me aware of my strengths, and future improvements. I hope that this placement will help me to progress into a career in sports marketing, or general marketing, and will be a great addition to my Curriculum Vitae. In addition, this blog will serve as a great reflective piece of work of all of my placement experiences and can be used for future employers to see what I am capable of when only taking up a part time placement module. I believe I can now take what I have learnt from my placement experiences, and personal skills into another internship, postgraduate degree or full time job, and keep developing myself and my employability skills.
Placement work sample images:
Evidence of Emails for Press Releases:
Sample of 1st Press
Release sent to Lancashire Evening Post:
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Thomas Downward
South Ribble School Sports Partnership
07514 205386
tdownward@uclan.ac.uk
Key Stage 2 Balshaw’s and Worden
Cluster Sports Hall Athletics Event
South
Ribble School Sports Partnership (SSP) are holding the Level 2 inter-school KS2
Sports Hall Athletics primary schools event for the ‘Balshaw’s and Worden
Cluster’ on Tuesday 25th November at 9:30am – 12:00pm at the Academy
@ Worden High School, Leyland. The primary school event is set to see up to 180
KS2 pupils participate in the Sports Hall Athletics event which comprises of
various track and field events held in the host’s venue indoor facilities. The
event will be an excellent opportunity for all the pupil’s school teachers, and
parents to come and watch their children participate in an exciting, yet
competitive primary school sports event which really shows the spirit of school
sport events.
Thomas
Downward, South Ribble School Sport Partnership Marketing, said “The SSP is a
select cohort of PE Teachers from various schools in South Ribble, who work
together to deliver primary school sporting events to Key Stages 1& 2. Each
event held offers all pupils an excellent opportunity to implement their learnt
fundamental skills into fun, yet competitive sporting events against other
school teams, which always proves to be an brilliant event for all participants
and spectators ”.
Kevin
Loughran SSP Partnership Manager said “There are 5 yr 5/6 local cluster sports
hall athletics event following the 2 yr 3-4 events earlier this term. Over 40
schools will take part and over 800 children will take part in the athletics
events that the SSP team are organising. Added to this, all the secondary
schools will send teams to the year 7/8 events at Lostock Academy in early
December which will mean over 1000 young people competing in athletics in
November and December”.
The
SSP team host various primary school sports event throughout the academic
calendar, comprising of ‘sports hall athletics, multi-skills, tennis and
netball events to name a few. In addition, the SSP team holds ‘Spar Level 3
events’, in which school teams compete to qualify for the ‘Spar Level 3
finals’, which are competed in, primary girl’s football, mini tennis,
rounder’s, handball, tag rugby, super 8’s athletics, swimming and girls cricket.
For
further information on each upcoming event, please contact the ‘noted contacts’
in the press release.
Ends
For
further information, please contact:
Thomas Downward
07514 205386
Kevin Loughran
07795 812761
Notes
to editors:
1.
Photographs are available on
request from previous primary school sports events
Sample of a typical Press
Release sent to Lancashire Evening Post:
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Thomas Downward
South Ribble School Sports Partnership
07514 205386
tdownward@uclan.ac.uk
Level 2
Inter-Schools KS2 Years 5/6 Sports Hall Athletics Primary Schools Final:
The
South Ribble School Sports Partnership (SSP) is holding the Level 2
Inter-School KS2 Years 5/6 Sports Hall Athletics Primary Schools Final on
Tuesday 20th January 2015 at Lostock Hall Academy, Todd Lane North.
The event will be broken down into two finals, one ‘larger primary schools’
final in the morning and the ‘small school’s final in the afternoon. The
morning event, starting at 9:30am and finishing at 12pm will comprise of 12
primary schools with 350 participants from around the borough competing in
various track and field events held in the host’s venue indoor facilities. The
afternoon event starting at 1:15pm and finishing at 2:45pm will comprise of 6
smaller primary schools with 75 participants. The highest scoring school from
the Brownedge and Worden Partnership will be invited to progress through to the
Level 3 Lancashire School Games Final on Wednesday 4th March 2015
for the larger primary schools, and Thursday 12th March 2015 for the
small schools final.
The two finals will be an excellent
opportunity for all the pupil’s school teachers, and parents to come and watch
their children participate in an exciting and competitive primary school sports
event which really shows the spirit of school sport events.
The
SSP team host various primary school sports events throughout the academic
calendar, comprising of ‘sports hall athletics, multi-skills, tennis and
netball events to name a few. In addition, the SSP team holds ‘Spar Level 3
events’, in which school teams compete to qualify for the ‘Spar Level 3
finals’, which are competed in, primary girl’s football, mini tennis,
rounder’s, handball, tag rugby, super 8’s athletics, swimming and girls
cricket.
For
further information on upcoming events and to keep up to date with the South
Ribble School Sport Partnership please follow us on Twitter @SouthRibbleSSP, or
alternatively please contact the ‘noted contacts’ in the press release.
Ends
For
further information, please contact:
Thomas Downward
07514 205386
Kevin Loughran
07795 812761
Notes
to editors:
1.
More photographs are available on
request from previous primary school sports events
Sample Photos from South Ribble’s Level 2 Sports Hall Athletics events:
Sample of a common response
from the Lancashire Evening Post:
Sample of a
follow up email to Lancashire Evening Post on event results:
Sample of the South Ribble School Sports Partnership Website I created:
Sample of the SSP Twitter Page I regularly maintained:
Sample of the SSP Facebook Page I created: (Early stages of development)
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