Motivation and Teamwork
The Year 9’s had a fun-filled day based around Motivation and Teamwork which involved a number of sessions which helped to build their motivation and teamwork skills.
Their first session focused on motivation which consisted of an activity which is based on the TV game show ‘The Cube’. The activity consisted of 14 challenges which allowed students to have 3 attempts. The different challenges which they took part in included a basketball shootout challenge and an invisible step. The students said that they “enjoyed doing sport as a team instead of sitting in a classroom”.
In the Year 9’s next session, the activity involved motivation by completing a number of aerobic exercises. These included sit ups, press ups, step ups, rowing machine and long jump. Whilst the students were taking part in the exercises, other team members were cheering them on to motivate them. The students seemed to really enjoy themselves and thought that the activities were tiring but the motivation from team members helped them complete the challenges.
The next part of the day focused on team building. For the team building task, the Year 9’s were given an informative presentation by members of BAM, Dave Williams and Elena Goodspeed. They talked about sustainable building designs. The facts included information about renewable energy, features of buildings, wind turbines and wind power. The information was later used in a Team Archifuture session where they created buildings.
The Year 9’s used the information from the presentation to design plans for their own team sustainable building. They used newspaper, card, tissue paper, glue and paint to create their designs. All of their designs were based on sustainable living and material to help prevent global warming. Their views on the task were positive because the day enabled them to design and create building structures out of recycled materials.
The overall day was filled with many activities which the students took part in and they managed to develop their motivation and teamwork skills.
