Yr 9 OLP Leadership and Teamwork

This E-portfolio post will be based on my recent camp experience at Kalbarri this year and all the leadership and teamwork skills I used over the full week. Leadership and teamwork are two important skills that help you to become cohesive and efficient in group activities which makes them very useful over the course of life. The example of leadership and teamwork that I used during this camp experience was the time we went and abseiled down into the gorge then climbed back out. During our time on camp in Kalbarri, we went on an expedition abseiling into the gorge and then climbing out with my group and some leaders. As we arrived at the ledge where we to abseil off I was feeling incredibly nervous as this was the first-time abseiling for me and some of my group mates. My nervousness was elevated by my fear of heights, but I ended up pushing through though I was terrified as I laid back into my harness and took the first few steps down the cliff face. After I had completed the daunting task it was my turn to reassure the others abseiling down trying to keep them calm. After 10 minutes everyone had completed the task without any injuries or casualties due to the efficiency of our group. I was then faced with leading the group on a walk through the gorge to a beautiful place called placid pool. The walk was around 20 minutes of clambering over rocks and avoiding spider webs. When we arrived at the destination it was the group’s job to get lunch sorted. We started by taking all the food and equipment out of the hiking bags we had evenly distributed between us and preparing the wraps. On cleanup duty was James Kemble, Oliver McNamee and I. The cleanup was quick and easy as we set aside certain items to clean for each other and also so we could capitalize on the time we had there. To get back up to our campsite we needed to exit the gorge and we did this by harnessing ourselves to a rope and climbing out. To complete this we would need two be-layers which my friend Oliver McNamee and I volunteered to do. After the both of us climbed up we went to be-lay which is the task of pulling rope through a device to make sure there was no slack on the rope. This task was very quickly completed and we were soon able to go back to camp due to thanks to everyone chipping in by all choosing a separate job to be as efficient and safe as possible. The day going so smoothly was a result of everyone in our group giving help when needed and not being afraid to volunteer as there was not a time when there were no volunteers. This shows that leadership and teamwork are very important skills and how our group effectively used them to succeed during camp.