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Dragons, Ropes and the Menai Straits
Year 7 enjoyed two days of team-building activities at the end of September.
The first day was spent in school, working on a Dragons’ Den project, where the teams had to come up with an inventive idea for a new product and then sell their ideas to the scary Dragons, ably played by Mr Allmand and Liam Moses, our Head Boy. The teams produced a range of creative ideas and were able to demonstrate their business know-how and confidence by withstanding intense questioning from their potential investors. Every product found support from one or other of the Dragons; a testament to the clever ideas, hard work and good sales pitch from the teams.
On the second day, the whole year group and a selection of brave teachers piled onto the coach and headed to the Conway Centre in North Wales. Here our intrepid year 7s took on a variety of physical and mental challenges to test their teamwork skills. Could they get their entire team from one end of the assault course to the other without dropping the cumbersome objects they had to carry round with them? Could they get the ball down the hill and into the upturned cone using only short lengths of guttering and without the ball touching the ground? Could they use their combined brain power and communication skills to solve the Towers of Hanoi puzzle? Of course they could!
The teams collected points from their successful activities in the morning, which allowed them to buy parts for the raft-building activity in the afternoon. Each team had to assemble a raft to carry the entire team (and in two cases, their teacher!) across the water to collect hoops that were hooked on the wall.
One raft was a little the worse for wear by the time we came ashore but all teams (and both teachers!) made it back safely and not too wet.....this was soon remedied by the students (and one teacher; I’d done my bit by going out on the raft) who jumped into the lake! Fortunately, everyone had come prepared with a change of clothes and returned home dry, tired and happy.