YEAR 9 CLC PROGRAM
Impressive Cohort Make Unreal Start in Week 1
Wangaratta High School
The Year 9's in our C.L.C (Community Leadership Challenge) Program made an impressive start on Wednesday.
Despite the extreme weather causing us to postpone the planned Lake William Hovell excursion and base ourselves at school, the kids were outstanding in workshops focusing on Teamwork, Community, Empathy and Kindness.
First Aid Training took up the bulk of the morning sessions, with the many of the students being exposed to the essential material for the 1st time. It culminated with each student tasked with performing the DRSABCD protocol on a Crash Test Dummy, complete with correct CPR techniques, as well as demonstrating how to deliver an EpiPen to a friend's quadriceps.
Human Fusball was as always an epic scene, with everyone tied to rope in the Sport Centre, in a life-size version of the classic Table Soccer game. Team Red came out the victors, thanks to top scorers Ruby Burns (4), Hugh Spring (4), Clarence Lampa (3), Lacy Solimo (2) and Kaity Ford (2). For the losing team, Thomas Fieldew (2), Ruby O'Kane (1) and Charlie Walsh (1) managed to score.
In the afternoon, a Just Dance team challenge inspired by the recent Social Media clips of AFL team GWS Giants, challenged the kids to break outside their comfort zones. Each of the 6 teams nominated two (or more) dancers to get up and dance in front of their peers, with judges awarding points for the most accurate performers.
The dancefloor quickly filled with kids dancing to hits such as the 1978 hit "Rasputin" by Boney M, "Gangnam Style" by Psy (2012), "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira (2005), copying the moves on the big screen. Most of the cohort were on their feet, with hilarious scenes and laughter all round with Elijah Grant working harder than most and Matthew Leerson's intense and unique moves drawing the hardest laughter. To see a room of 15-year olds, with absolutely no inhibitions, dating like that for 30 minutes, with he boys probably the most enthusiastic and energetic, was something else. It was one of the best things C.L.C staff had seen in their careers.
Thanks to all of our students for making it a wonderful 1st day. We're off to Bounce Trampolining in Wodonga this Wednesday.
Juddy
Sport Coordinator.