Ready-to-use Meeting:
Playing pool

Aim of this session
To play some pool.

Preparation
Setting up the snooker table is a job best done alone by the youthworker in advance of the session. It's best not to ask any of your volunteers to help set up as it might put them off. If the table has got folding legs they may well be broken. If you wanted you could mend them - or not - it's your choice really.

Warming up
Check the heating is on. Failing that wear a baseball cap - back to front so as to cover the neck area.

Time for action
Put the balls on the table. Use the great big long stick thing to hit them into the netty bits at the sides and corners. Do this for a while, then when you get bored of it try throwing the balls along the table, off the table or around the room.

Reflecting
You've probably lost some of the pool balls under the furniture. How do you think it feels to be a pool ball who has been lost under the furniture?

To Finish
Wait for the young people to go home, then start clearing up. If any of the volunteers want to help decline their offer politely and tell them to go home. There's no point risking upsetting them.

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