EXTREME TEAMS

Employability Skills

All young people need a set of skills and attributes that will prepare them for both employment and further learning. The Employability Skills that employers identified that makes a good employee are personal attributes and key skills that help you to operate and thrive in the world of work.  They are transferable skills that are taken from one work situation to another.  The key employability skills are:

• communication;

• team work;

• problem solving;

• initiative and enterprise;

• planning and organising;

• self-management;

• learning skills; and

• technology.

Each Tuesday afternoon students break into six mixed groups of Year 11 and Year 12 students to participate in Extreme Teams.  These teams work together on challenges that aim to develop and practice many of the listed employability skills.  Teams have worked together in the following challenges:

• Ice Breaker Challenges – getting to know each other activities.
• Pancakes a Plenty! – on Shrove Tuesday each team was given one Shake-A-Pancake bottle and were asked to make as many pancakes as they could – extra points were given for creative plating up!
• Team Formation – teams decided on a team name, a motto, a team chant and a logo and then presented these to the other teams.
• Paper Planes – after researching various designs to fold paper planes, each student made their own paper plane and competed in rounds for points for the longest distance.
• Squash Face – this challenge involved students taking a photo showing as many different faces as possible.

After each challenge the winning team are presented with the Extreme Teams trophy to display until the next week’s challenge.