On Wednesday 25th February around 25 students were chosen to take part in a training course to boost their confidence with thinking “outside the box”.

 

I was one of the selected students who took part in this inspirational course. Honestly, as the day began I felt boredom strike. I was pleading to get out of this course but then I thought, “it was better than being stuck in class all day,” so I stayed and gradually I did feel as though I was having fun, so much so that at the end of the day I became reluctant to leave.

 

Over the course of the day, we were split into 7 groups each was given a letter. My group’s letter was ‘B’ for ‘Bardo’, some groups were ‘C’ for ‘Charlie’. The teams were made to battle against each other in a race to find the highest ‘higher level thinkers’.

 

Although, my group didn’t win, I feel as though I met new people and became social with a group of people that I didn’t normally associate with.

 

Continuing, our teams were made to complete several challenges which determined who would win.

 

We did a few general knowledge questions which I proudly leaded; we also did team building activities led by Sydney and finally we did a practical activity called ‘The Creative Challenge’. This challenge was led by Billi and I.

 

It’s easy to underestimate these logical questions we were given, however they were truly stretching. For instance, one of the questions asked us to name homophones out of a given sentence eg. ‘a lady who crafts for the Queen’. Incidentally, you would think this was nonsense as did I, but when you look closely at what this statement is saying, you could pull two homophones out of it. I got ‘maid’ as in the term ‘a female domestic servant’ and ‘made’ as in ‘crafted or built’. Did you think of that?

 

Here’s another one: ‘two fruits’. Try and work this out and see the answer at the end of the article.

 

Conclusively, it was a fun and gripping day. Moreover, I now believe that on this day I learned a lot about team building and believing in myself and my views since, as long as you can justify why you believe something then you can never be wrong.

 

Toni Abiodun – Charles Darwin School

 

*Answer: ‘pair’ and ‘pear’

                   - A pair of pears.