Team Building for Year 5's

THRILLS AND SKILLS FOR LIFE have continued developing team training and team building and it is increasingly successful. Most recently Chris worked at Fishburn Primary School in Fishburn, Stockton on Tees. The school is quite forward thinking and has embraced team building activities. The day went really well and was based upon a journey from sea to land and up a mountain, then, finally rescuing the prince / princess's from the tower!

All the tasks are designed to include everybody and each task requires a new leader, who must get his or her team to complete the task usually faster than the other team. This then galvanises the team into a common goal and bonds children who sometimes 5 minutes before had disliked each other. It allows children who normally keep to the back of events to shine and presen

t their skills and it highlights gifted children. Most rewarding it shows up skills to the children themselves, they did not know they had! There is increasing emphasis and pressure on schools from SATS and exams and performance tables and it would be easy for them to sideline activities that teach life skills, yet, as early as

16 that's exactly what a child needs...Life skills.

Thrills and Skills for Life would like to thank St Augustine's Priory, Wickford Grange Primary, Fishburn Primary, Bowburn Youth Project and The Durham and Darlington NHS Primary Care Trust for being forward thinking and look forward to continuing to provide you with first class training in the future.