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.