On Friday the 19th of November our class, Year Five, had our very own Leadership Day. For this special and exciting day, we were allowed to wear mufti clothes. For the day we worked and did our activities in the St Mary’s Church meeting room. Mrs Walsh (our teacher) explained what we were going to do for the day. We started off with prayer. We went outside and found our own spots to write a prayer on a green piece of paper that had a leaf on it. This took us five minutes, after this, we started to fill in two pages from our leadership day booklet. Next, we played a game called Knots. This game was based on teamwork and building leadership skills. The girls won both rounds. After knots, we filled in more pages in our booklets. We also played keep up the balloon. We started with Lawrence vs Aloysious, we all held hands and tried to keep up the balloon. It was very fun although it was quite windy. After we played that, we filled in more pages (we did this after most games.) Then we played Monsters, Fairies, Wizards. This was like Scissors, Paper, Rock but we did this in teams, girls vs boys. Girls won most rounds so we got our free hot chips and poppers first. After we got ours and the boys got theirs we went to sit down in the shade to eat. Then it was break time.
After the first break, we went back inside to fill in some more pages. We also went around the room and wrote a word to describe each person. This was a good activity that helped build our relationships with others. We played band-aid tag which was based on teamwork then we tried to keep up the balloon but it flew away. After our outside games, it was the second break. After the break, we filled in the rest of the pages in our booklets. We finished the day with more fun games like All over. This game was based on teamwork. We also played a trust game with a partner, where you had to guide them blindfolded through the obstacles.
Overall, I think we all had a great day and it's definitely something the younger classes can look forward to in the future.
By Caitlyn Hogan