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YR7 TEAM

YR7 TEAM is a team building program which has been developed by the Narrabri Schools Ministry. TEAM seeks to helps the students in Year Seven to build interpersonal  skills required for life, especially those skills required for working in team environments. 

YR7 TEAM has been developed on the 'A2B' model produced by Scripture Union Queensland. YR7 TEAM is focussed on team work and mutual respect between students. 

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YR7 TEAM is not a religious program. It has been developed in accordance with Christian values but in no way does it promote Christianity. Narrabri Schools Ministry developed this program to help the students find their worth and value. 

IN RECESS DUE TO COVID -19 response

Program Objectives:

  1. To help students to “RISE” to the challenge of life and society

  2. For students to respect other members of a group

  3. Equip students to manage personal conflict

  4. For students to identify how they as individuals contribute to the success of the wider group

  5. For each student to want to be involved in the community

  6. For students to be actively engaged in their life and society

Program Outcomes:

  1. Students will demonstrate cooperation to complete a set task

  2. Students should be managing many personal conflicts themselves

  3. Students will identify their impact on the class/year group/ school etc

  4. Students will be able to contribute to the group discussion

  5. Students will have grown in their respect for self and others

  6. Students will have a desire to succeed  

Throughout this program students are challenged to work as a team. The very first part of the course is to develop a code of conduct, known as the "Group Code". This code is written using whiteboard markers because throughout the program the class will be given the opportunity to adjust the group code. Each session of YR7 TEAM has team challenges including Log Lurch, Spider Web, Tarp Turnover, Sherpa Walks and Blindfolded Bumper Cars. Just to name a few.

The class is instructed on the various team roles, which fit into the categories of Functional, Social, and Dysfunctional. Students are also challenged to identify some of these roles at work in their group. The class is also instructed on the communication cycle. 

Teaching is kept to a minimum in this action based learning environment to allow more learning to take place. As the classes are forced to problem solve their interpersonal fault lines are revealed. as these are revealed the activity is paused so those fault lines can be addressed.

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During the second session one teacher exclaimed

"I have never seen this class work so well together"

Students are saying that their group code would only work if

"everyone would follow it"

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