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	“FEELING GOOD LEARNING WELL” YEAR 8 CITIZENSHIP CHALLENGE , 4^TH MARCH 2008

	For the second of our PSHE / Citizenship focus days, this year, we decided that we would take a new approach by having all students participate in the “Feeling Good Learning Well” Citizenship Challenge.

	The aims of the Challenge were: - •To work together to solve problems. •To become aware of how emotions can help or hinder our learning. •To take responsibility for our own learning. •To show how we can learn through working as a team. •To have fun!

	The theme of the day was: The Value of Working as a Team The Challenge consisted of five team challenges and was an opportunity for students to develop and demonstrate their abilities to work as a team with other students in the Year Group. Tutor groups were divided into teams of four or five students and these teams were encouraged to compete against teams in their Tutor Group; all points gained, would then be combined in an overall Tutor Group score to encourage competition against other Tutor Groups in the Year Group.

	The following prizes and awards were presented: A certificate for all students who participated. Certificates for the team with the highest score in each Tutor group. The Tutor’s Choice Certificate awarded to the team in each Tutor Group that, in the view of the Tutor entered into the spirit of the day with the most enthusiasm. The Year 8 Tutor Group Challenge Cup, awarded to the Tutor group with the highest combined score. A visit to Pizza Express for the winning Tutor Group, where the students will design and make their own healthy pizzas before eating them in the restaurant.

	Each group had to complete the following challenges: - •Bridge Building – Where students had to design and build a one metre long bridge made from paper. Card, drinking straws, string and sticky tape. The success of the bridge was judged on the basis of whether it supported a billiard ball being rolled across it.

	•Phunky Foods – Using ICT and the Internet, students completed a number of quizzes and competitions on the subject of healthy eating; they then had to devise a day’s healthy menu.

	•Orienteering – students used punning, cryptic clues and knowledge of compass points to find individual letters hidden on the school grounds; these letters, when arranged correctly, formed the motto for the day, “Felling Good learning Well”.

	•Telling it in paint – This task introduced students to the work of the abstract Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, who created a theory about colours corresponding to emotions; students were then asked to represent their emotions about the day in an artistic form.

	•The Hub Challenge – students were presented with a range of puzzles designed to develop their thinking skills, emotional intelligence and teamwork.

	The challenges were devised to develop the five key skills of: - Motivation Resilience Working Together Thinking Skills Completing Tasks