Leading Ourselves Into the Future

On Tuesday the 18th our year 6 level undertook a lead yourself into the future day. We participated in many challenges including that helped us team build and understanding ourselves as well as others as people. Here are some of the thing we did.

One of the activities that we did was ‘The Cup Stack Challenge’! This challenge was designed to make everyone participate as leaders and step up but also let others shine.

At the start our group took time to just make a plan and all get on the same page. In the activity we had 5 cups, some thick string and some elastic bands. The objective was to get all 5 cups stacked the highest without using our hands or without it touching us. Our group started by planning. We took around 2 or 3 minutes just telling each other our ideas and formulating a plan. We used the rubber bands to tie around the cup and gently place then someone would use the rope to move the cup if it wasn’t balancing well.

Cup stacking – https://preschoolsteam.com/steam-activities-for-preschoolers-stacking-cups/

It was a quite basic and easy to understand challenge physically by just placing the cups. However the leadership and team part of the activity was more challenging as we had to let everyone have a go and participate. As we went along we had a system that would let some people direct the team by telling them when an where to place the cup, some people placing the cups and others that would interchange with the team to let people have breaks, giving the rest of the team a chance to build or direct.

Overall this challenge was a very helpful one to firstly get to know each other’s strengths but also learn the importance of leadership and teamwork.

What is your favourite collaborative game?

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