On Wednesday all of the Year Six students were lucky enough to go to the Warrnambool Surf club for a team building day organised by the Year six teachers and Mr O’Brien.

The first guest speaker was Ben the Bandit who informed us that in life in order to be happy you have to take safe risks and to take risks you have to have courage. His life wasn’t as simple as others. He faced struggle and had learned how to work around them and inspired us to do the same.

Our second guest speaker was Ben Walsh. He handed out pieces of paper to each table team and we were to write about all the things about our school we are grateful for. He also helped us make a Year 6 moto.

All of the Year Sixers were having such an enjoyable time, that we didn’t want it to end!

Just after lunch we split into classroom groups and began our team building activities. E1 and E3 started on the obstacle course where we had to cross over the “Radioactive River” organised by Mr. O’Brien. It was a great activity that forced us to work as a team. It also showed that you couldn’t just have one voice leading the team as sometimes other ideas put together can be so beneficial.

The other activity was a cup stack. We used a rubber band, with string wrapped around it, so that you could pull it in and out. You would then with your group attempt to get the plastic cups from one area to the other. When doing this you had to really communicate and use a lot of motivation.

After we finished off the Team building activities we all went back inside and sat in a massive circle and each got handed a lemonade icy pole. We were all so happy in the moment we started an Aussie Chant in pride at how amazing our Year 6 level is. Then at the most perfect time we got an announcement from all the teachers that we were getting our Year 6 T-shirts. The school leaders were asked to go up the front and hand the T-shirts out to everyone. We all were so excited as we slid on the tops. We all jumped up and each class one by one did a fashion parade around the circle and encouraged each and every one to go. After we settled down and got packed up ready to go and we went and had a massive Year 6 photo just out front of the surf club. Then we headed back on the bus on our way back to St Joseph’s.

Thank you so much to all involved, that made us Year Sixes have an incredible day that was so beneficial.  We will definitely use these team building skills in the future.

By Sibella Evans, Ava Gleeson, Indi Smedts – year 6 students