Year 9 camp – English task

Summary-

Year 9 OLP at Kalbarri was a once-in-a-lifetime week experience. At the beginning of term three, the first group of year 9 (half our year group) departed from the chapel car park for a 6-hour drive. Once making it to base camp we separated into the groups that we would be with for the week. Throughout the week we learned about ourselves and others while enjoying the experience of nature. However, this put to the test our leadership, teamwork, and relationships.

Four ways

Leadership

Throughout the camp, I had various amounts of leadership opportunities that would test ourselves and others. One leadership opportunity I took part in was encouraging people during abseiling. Since jumping off a 20-meter cliff isn’t everyone’s cup of tea I stepped up and encouraged the not-so-confident people. I did this by going first before the group demonstrating that it was safe and not so scary. This had an impact on the group by helping my fellow group members overcome their fears.

Kalbarri Window

Working as a team

In camp, we were given a great variety of opportunities to work as a team, build bonds and use our teamwork. One moment that I would like to focus on was when we played tarp volleyball hosted by Mr. J. In this activity, our group separated into 2 teams where we would work together to compete with the other team to win the game. We showed teamwork here by all effectively communicating and collaborating together to achieve our goal of winning the game. This helped us understand the true meaning of teamwork and how it is to work as a team.