Year+7+Leadership+Camp

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November 14 What leadership skills did you see in yourself and/or other people?

I thought I showed a lot of good responsibility when we were doing the bush bashing because I was in front and I had the compass so I had to make sure that I went the right way which was very hard. I also listened well when we were being told our instructions for our activities. I saw other people encouraging people to keep walking when we were doing the walk.

I think that the skills I showed were:
 * Listening
 * Responsibility
 * Helpfulness

When we got off the bus we all helped to get the stuff off the bus, then the parents started to arrive in their cars. We then had to set up our tents, my groups took the longest to set up, we even had to have four adults help us! We then had to put all of our stuff into the tents- which was hard because we didn't want to get them wet, it was a very rainy day-. Then we had a snack and headed off on our walk to atiwhakatu hut. It was a long walk there with slopes going up and down, after what seemed 5 hours (which was really only one and a half) we came across a sign the said: Atiwhakatu Hut, 1.25 hours. We all sighed in exhaustion. When we finally reached Atiwhakatu hut we were all very tired and wet. Then we had to walk all the way back, which seemed like it took less time. Once again we were back at camp, since we were all wet we got changed into dry clothes and we started cooking tea. We all had the basics; sausage and bread. We then had a bit of free time, to either play with the ball, practice our skits or go into our tents. Then it was showtime. There was one skit that had robots fighting each other (I do worry about the boys in year 7...) and then some girls did a dance (It took a long time to convince them to do it though) and then there was my skit. I brought a book along that was one of those funny books about life and such, except the main character was a bunny. A couple of boys and one girl volunteered to act it out, it was actually pretty funny! It was then time for bed after a tiring day.

We woke up very early in the morning, with the two girl tent groups having a karaoke competition. Then in the morning we had breakfast; bacon and sausages. We were then told what we needed for the activites and we were off! First we did bush bashing, which is where you and your group have a compus and you have to find your way out of a big forest. Then we went down to the river and we had to do river crossing. Once we were over the river we had to build rock towers.

November 9 For the past few weeks we (YR 7's) have been in groups organizing a game for the little kids (year 1 & 2) in our school, we did a different version of over and under.

Leadership I saw: Responsibility Listening Helping Encouraging

Leadership I showed: Responsibility Listening Helping Encouraging

Things that went well: The kids went in their lines easily, The older kids worked together well, The games were well organized.

What could have been improved: Our group didn't work too well for the planning, so next time we do this we will need to be better at planning.

How I feel overall: I thought it went great and that all the little kids enjoyed it.

Our camp is on November 10/11

What leadership skills I want to gain:
 * Helping other people.
 * Confidence

What leadership skills do I think I will need for the camp:
 * Listening
 * Helping
 * Sharing
 * Commonsense

What leadership skills I already have:
 * Listening
 * Bravery
 * Sharing
 * Commonsense