Leadership Day

On February ….. all year 6 students from Carey Kew and Carey Donvale attended a leadership day called “Lead yourself into the future”. Throughout the day we did 4 activities to understand what it means to be a good leader. These activities helped us work together as a team and come up with different ideas that may or may not work. We worked with others to come up with great ideas to try and win the challenge. We did this by using others strengths to figure out a plan to complete the activities. 

Firstly, we started off by going off into different groups with each group wearing a specific colour. I was in the orange coloured group with a mix of Kew and Donvale kids. One of the activities was cup stacking. Each group had to see how high they could stack their cups using only string, scissors and rubber bands. When we got all of our materials there was a twist and we found out that the cups cant touch any part of our body or the scissors and string. The cups could only touch the rubber bands making it a difficult task. 

We started off by cutting a piece of string into 3 pieces and tying those pieces around the rubber band. 3 of us would pull the string and that would stretch the rubber band so it would go over the cup. When it was over the cup we couldn’t figure out how to get the rubber band back over the cup without the tower falling over. This idea didn’t work out as well as we planned. Our next idea came from one of our team members who got a rubber band and put it over the cup and closed it, picking it up, stacking it and then stretching it back over the cup. We used this method to stack the cups having all of our team members working hard to win. 

During this activity, I learnt about myself that not all of my ideas will always work out, so working in a team helps so others can use their skills to come up with ideas that can support other members in making their idea work. I learnt to challenge myself, not everyting will be easy. Every time we tried a new idea, I was making sure that I never give up. As a team member I learnt to listen to others and allow them to give ideas, even though they may not work out too well and always support my team members. I also learnt to give everyone a chance and share each other’s ideas to make them one big idea.

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