Hillhead High School
The conference was a positive, fun experience and the S4 pupils
benefited a lot as we had been involved in leadership work
beforehand. Some of the things we gained:
- Good to split into teams to work with others
- Confidence to speak to others
- Nice t-shirts!!
- It was fun presenting games to group
- Lots of communication skills
- Working together and compromising through discussion.
Warn up got us laughing and moving and broke down some barriers
We enjoyed the opportunity to get out to in a big external venue
like Strathclyde University. Afterwards we felt positive and raring
to go!
Back at school we discussed the event and planned our S1 Reward
Event. We drew up a checklist and a list of roles for the day and
in the lead up to the event and decided who was going to do
what.
We planned fun activities for 24 pupils who had attended and
worked hard at PE activities. We contacted and informed all pupils,
decorated the areas (flags etc), welcomed them and supervised
changing. We then got on to warming them up ready for their
activities! We divided them into teams and gave instructions for
the activities. We had produced certificates to give to the
participants afterwards and organised for our head teacher to
present them to the S1 pupils. We had a good time and the
participants had a lot of fun!
The following week we held a debrief meeting to assess how the
event had gone. We were well organised and our timing was OK (we
over ran a little but caught up), we think that was normal for such
a big event! Everybody in our group carried out their roles
responsibly and any anxiety that we had at the start of the day
disappeared quite quickly. Overall we were proud of how the event
went and how the S1s enjoyed it.
Currently we are running with our Olympic theme and this will
then link in our Commonwealth Games plans after London 2012. After
the summer break, we will be focusing on our 2014 plans also
linking with our Sports Leaders course.
This year the new S4 Sports Leaders hope to attend Lead 2014 and
we will recommend it to them!