Teamwork and leadership

School camp and team sports are great ways to show and learn teamwork and leadership.

School camp

At the year 9 school camp at Kalbarri, for the hikes and the abseiling, encouraging and assisting others was key. When my group and I went abseiling, a few of the people didn’t want to do it alone or at all so we had to encourage and help them. During the hike, I encouraged people to keep on going although they were struggling and tired. One of the ways that I helped was to carry their bag, breaks were also offered.

Team sport

When playing a team sport (like soccer), you have to work together to score and if one person is struggling on their own you need to go and help them. In team sports, I used to be uncoordinated and I didn’t communicate well. Now I am much more coordinated within a team (in other words I play well with others).

Leadership skills

Some of these ‘leader qualities’ shown below, I need to work on, but there are others that I’ve already conquered and many that I haven’t even thought of. I would like to think that I am a happy person (at least I try to be) when I am given the opportunity to be empathetic I take it so that I have the best chance of understanding the current situation.

What I’m good at:What needs work:Could be better:
Personal happiness
Empathy
Creativity
Caring about others
Talking clearly
Listen better
Task focus
Embrace failure
Patience (when it comes to people)
Avoid procrastination
Organisation
Responsibility
Patience (when it comes to waiting)
Lead by example

Barista program

Today I completed a Basic Barista Course which was conducted by Barista HQ Perth. During the three and a half hours we had for the program we learnt how to make a flat white, latte, cappuccino, mocha and hot chocolate.

The trainer taught us about:

  • types of coffee
  • parts of the machine
  • frothing milk
  • froth art
  • shots

My favourite type of coffee to drink is cappuccino, but I have also tried mocha, latte and flat white.

At the end of the course, I received a Certificate of Completion.

Drawing and Experimental Painting with Egg Tempera.

In art this year, semester one we started off simple with a visual diary where we did activities involving the right side of the brain, such as upside-down drawings, contour drawings, blind contour drawings, drawings based around negative space and of course, the cover page.

Then we moved on to the still life drawing, where we chose a perspective to draw from and then started drawing, it took about two to three weeks to complete.

My still life drawing

After that, we started our colour composition using Paint 3D to know what colours to use and where to use them when we started painting.

My colour composition in Paint 3D (not done)

After choosing what colours to go where, we started making the egg tempera paint using one tablespoon of pigment, one egg yolk, and one tablespoon of water. Then we started painting the still life.

Year 9 Students and their Leisure Time

EJ Tan and Ryan Mouton.

Our Rationale

EJ and I are researching how long a year 9 student would relax and do recreational activities for. We are also researching if they would prefer to do so indoors or outdoors. Our information could change depending on the gender or preferences. We chose this topic because we believe that this could help schools and recreational centres improve and upgrade. Therefore, more year 9 students could get more exercise.

Validity and Reliability

In our research we used convenience sampling to sample the year 9 cohort. In the survey we have minimised the amount of bias by allowing all participants to do it privately, although we did do the survey privately other influences like their parents or their friends could alter the end results. We sampled 141 people in the year 9 cohort.

Outliers

There seem to be no outliers in the test. This is because you are given a set of numbers to choose from instead of choosing your own. But there seems to be lower numbers at the start then begin to rise then fall like a hill.

Categorical Data

When you have free time to relax, do you prefer to do so indoors or outdoors?

  • Mode = indoor / indoors (108) Outdoors (34).
  • Indoor percentage 108/142 = 0.761 * 100 = 76.1%.
  • Outdoor percentage = 34/142 = 0.239 * 100 = 23.9%.

Our graph is very one-sided. Indoor leisure time is 76 percent while outdoor leisure time is 24 percent.

I believe our results turned out like this because more teenagers like to use their phones and be inside instead of outside.

Numerical Data

In a typical weekday, how many hours do you spend on leisure activities (e.g., going for a walk, playing a game with friends, doing a hobby you find relaxing, etc.)?

  • Female=66
  • Male=72
  • Non-binary=3
  • Sample size=141
  • Sum of all numbers=499
NUM 0NUM 1NUM 2NUM 3NUM 4NUM 5NUM 6NUM 7NUM 8
5213919121211715
‘NUM’ means amount of hours spent doing leisure activities on a typical weekday, the numbers below them represent the amount of people that chose each of the amounts of hours for leisure.
MeanModeMedianRange
3.539238
This graph is showing the mean, mode, median and range of the data in the previous graph.
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The data used was discrete data because there is only a set number of times. The column graph shows that it is positively skewed. The column graph has a significant difference with 2 at the highest and all the other numbers just following behind it. I believe that most people chose 2 hours because they don’t have time to do more because of schoolwork and other commitments.

Limitations in the lask?

There were no limitations for the task but there were some complications for the task. It was difficult to calculate the quartiles in excel because of some technical difficulties. 

Teamwork

EJ and I worked well together on our project. We both split our tasks evenly and we both worked independently. We had a little trouble communicating but we managed to finish and present it on the due date.

Our experiences, what we can learn and recommendations

I believe that our experiences in this project will help further us in other assessments and other projects. I need to manage my time to a higher standard than what I have been doing. I need to communicate more in these kinds of projects. We also experienced lots of technical difficulties but this just means that we will be more prepared in the future.

Lloyd Rayney murder case

The Lloyd Rayney case lasted around five years, spanning from 2007 to 2012. Lloyd Rayney was a well known Perth lawyer. He lived with his two daughters, his wife Corryn Veronica Ann Rayney and became a prime suspect for the murder of his wife. On the night of the 7th of August , 2007, Corryn Rayney was murdered, she was found in a makeshift grave in Kings Park on the side of Wattle Track.

Equality before the law was both upheld and compromised in the Rayney case. It was compromised due to the media portraying Lloyd Rayney as suspicious. It was upheld due to the court treating Lloyd Rayney the same as they treated the State.

A place card with Lloyd Rayney’s name on it was found near the grave, making Lloyd Rayney a suspect. The Police also found oil on the road that lead them to Corryn Rayney’s car. The oil that was found came from the car’s transmission oil sump. The damage to the transmission oil sump occurred by driving over the bollard near the grave site in Kings Park on Wattle Track.

The right to a fair trial was upheld and compromised in the Rayney case. It was compromised due to the unacceptable conduct by police providing evidence.

Judiciary is impartial and independent was upheld due to the court finding a judge that Lloyd Rayney didn’t know so that there was no way the judge would be bias. Lloyd’s trial was judge only meaning no jury. The judge was from the Northern Territory meaning that the judge had less chance of knowing Lloyd Rayney personally. They also had less chance of the judge being bias towards or against Lloyd from the media coverage.

Even after the principles of justice were put into play, they could not find Lloyd Rayney guilty of the murder of Corryn Rayney. The evidence presented was not enough to convict Lloyd as there was still reasonable doubt.

corryn rayney
Lloyd Rayney and his wife Corryn Rayney pictured in April 2007, months before she was found dead in King’s Park, Perth. He was acquitted of her murder three years ago. Photograph: Supplied by the WA supreme court. Copied from The Guardian

My health experience

In health I have learnt that critical thinking is where you can analyse the possible outcomes of certain actions or judgements like if you have seen something cool on social media and wanted to do it. For example jumping off the lower side of a bridge you would find out the possible out-comes with critical thinking.  Another example of critical thinking is if you look at a picture that has been edited to look real and you believe it then you can be tricked into having the wrong mind-set or perspective.