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Wednesday, 04 July 2012
Year 10 pupils at Bolton School Girls' Division took part in two
days of off timetable activities in a 'Getting Ready for Sixth Form
Life' event.
One highlight for the girls was a 'Commando Joe's' session where
they took part in military-type exercises including an assault
course, circuits, team relays and games. Commando Joe's are a group
of fitness professionals specialising in coaching youngsters in
keeping fit army style, to encourage transferrable skills such as
team working, communication and leadership through team building
and problem solving activities.
Over the course of the two days the girls took part in 30 minute
sessions entitled 'Young Thinkers', 'Young Citizens' and 'Young
Consumers', and were given Sixth Form taster lessons in familiar
subjects alongside some which are only available at A Level such as
Psychology and Government and Politics. They also held their very
own mini version of 'The Young Apprentice' complete with teachers
in the roles of Sir Alan Sugar and his associates! Girls worked in
teams and the brief was to develop a superlative programme of
activities for a global retailing organisation to offer as an
incentive award to their top sales teams from around the world.
Girls had to demonstrate their ability to deliver a complete
experiential travel prize in Manchester with good use of budget,
creativity and good teamwork skills.
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