A M.S. TEAM DAY

At Middle School team building day our grade eight classes came together and worked as a team. I had no idea that we could all work together and become more than just two grade eight classes we became a community of friends. This really boosted everyone’s spirits and I know for sure that our whole Middle School had a great time.

When we first arrived at Norval the grade eights gathered together and we did the piggy in the blanket toss. This was a great experience for me and the majority of the grade eight classes. The exercise goes as follows. There is a large circular sheet of cloth. A person lies in the center, and they cross their arms across their chest and straighten their legs. Then the people that are holding the edges, together lift the person with the cloth off the ground and someone counts to three. On three everyone pulls back on the cloth and the person in the center goes flying. I thought that our team did well on this exercise because I felt very safe. It took every single person to make this a fun and unthreatened experience.

I learned that to be a leader you have to listen to what your other team members have to say. Most people think that one person is the leader, but it takes many people to stand up and say their opinions, this is what being a leader is truly about. I learned this from Norval because we were a team, we had to complete that challenges as a team. Everyone had to listen to everyone’s opinion because there are many ways to solve the problem at hand.

At Norval our team had to complete many very difficult challenges and it wasn’t possible to complete them without everyone working together. Achieving a goal is more than just doing it; it’s about working together as a body to do something as a whole.

I thought that this day was very productive and I really enjoyed myself. I think that we should do this trip every year because it builds the middle school to become a whole instead of individuals. We still are individuals but we are the SJK middle school and we have to represent the school with pride.