Team Challenge

Develop your problem solving, teamwork and communication skills.

Half day
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Managing Risk

Develop your problem solving, teamwork and communication skills.

Working in a team you will find solutions to scenarios set out around the site.

Curriculum Links

 

  • They should enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with each other
  • Build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable
  • Explore and use mechanisms
  • Consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others
  • Take and share responsibility
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  • using Standard English confidently in a range of formal and informal contexts, including classroom discussion
  • giving short speeches and presentations, expressing their own ideas and keeping to the point
  • make predictions using scientific knowledge and understanding
  • take part in outdoor and adventurous activities which present intellectual and physical challenges and be encouraged to work in a team, building on trust and developing skills to solve problems, either individually or as a group
  • analyse their performances compared to previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best
  • lead healthy, active lives
  • H14. the benefits of physical activity and exercise for physical and mental health and wellbeing
  • H16. to recognise and manage what influences their choices about physical activity
  • H30. how to identify risk and manage personal safety in increasingly independent situations, including online
  • R14. the qualities and behaviours they should expect and exhibit in a wide variety of positive relationships (including in school and wider society, family and friendships, including online)
  • R15. to further develop and rehearse the skills of team working
  • R16. to further develop the skills of active listening, clear communication, negotiation and compromise
  • R19. to develop conflict management skills and strategies to reconcile after disagreements
  • L2. to review their strengths, interests, skills, qualities and values and how to develop them
  • L4. the skills and attributes that employers value

 

  • Speak confidently, audibly and effectively, including through:
  • working effectively in groups of different sizes and taking on required roles,
  • including leading and managing discussions, involving others productively,
  • reviewing and summarising, and contributing to meeting goals/deadlines
  • listening to and building on the contributions of others, asking questions to clarify and inform, and challenging courteously when necessary
  • planning for different purposes and audiences, including selecting and organising information and ideas effectively and persuasively for formal spoken presentations and debates
  • listening and responding in a variety of different contexts, both formal and informal, and evaluating content, viewpoints, evidence and aspects of presentation
  • take part in further outdoor and adventurous activities in a range of environments which present intellectual and physical challenges and which encourage pupils to work in a team, building on trust and developing skills to solve problems, either individually or as a group
  • H4. strategies to develop assertiveness and build resilience to peer and other influences that affect both how they think about themselves and their health and wellbeing
  • H22. ways to identify risk and manage personal safety in new social settings, workplaces, and environments, including online
  • L2. to evaluate their own personal strengths and areas for development and use this to inform goal setting

 

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