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Maypole oops!
Spoke too soon about bad teachers...
I had a group today who got almost everything wrong!
In my defence, I should say that groups with more than three children age under 4 are very tough indeed, and I did have 24 dancers, but it was still a mess.
24 are just too many to handle without a wrangler, and my volunteer wrangler was new to the job, so wasn't yet aware of just how much she was being volunteered for. (With that many kids, the wrangler needs to do things like checked they haven't wrapped the ribbon round their hand, catch those who are overtaking, and do things like ensuring all the ribbons are in the correct place to start with and making sure kids hold their ribbons high enough that they don't chop people's heads off. In short, she needs to be about six people in one...)
I'd strung the pole for 12, but so many kids wanted to join in that I went up to the max.
But, slapping my own wrist for being so cocky!
I had a group today who got almost everything wrong!
In my defence, I should say that groups with more than three children age under 4 are very tough indeed, and I did have 24 dancers, but it was still a mess.
24 are just too many to handle without a wrangler, and my volunteer wrangler was new to the job, so wasn't yet aware of just how much she was being volunteered for. (With that many kids, the wrangler needs to do things like checked they haven't wrapped the ribbon round their hand, catch those who are overtaking, and do things like ensuring all the ribbons are in the correct place to start with and making sure kids hold their ribbons high enough that they don't chop people's heads off. In short, she needs to be about six people in one...)
I'd strung the pole for 12, but so many kids wanted to join in that I went up to the max.
But, slapping my own wrist for being so cocky!
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But you now have further data to add to your teaching: never go over 12 with an inexperienced wrangler, even if a lot of kids want to join in.
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