Leadership

Hello,

For the month of March, the students learnt about leadership.  Every class from grades 1-8 watched the video from Brad Bowden.  For the grade 1s, we created a giant acrostic poem together on the white board about leadership.  They had to pick one word that starts with each letter of the word leadership.  For the grade 2/3’s they did the same lesson as the grade 1’s but created their acrostic poems independently.  For grades 4-6 they had to create a sentence about each letter about leadership. 

               With the grade 7/8s I was able to split them into two groups.  On the first day the grade 7’s went to help out at a group home in the community as the grade 8s stayed back with myself.  We talked about different leaders in the community and also created the acrostic poem.  With only having the grade 8’s in the room we were able to discuss how we can be leaders in the school and how the younger students look up to them.  We also talked about role modeling appropriate behavior within the school because they will be setting the tone how the students at Holy Rosary will be acting.  I also did this same lesson with the grade 7’s the next day without the grade 8s. 

               Part of our Phys Ed. program has a leadership outcome that ties right into this topic that we were able to utilize in the school.  Our grade 7/8 teacher in the past ran a record breaking day with his students.  We broke his student’s intro groups of 3 and they had to lead an activity for the entire school.  Each grade would rotate through each station and try to break a record for their age category.  For example, we had three students run a push up station.  The students would come to that station and see how many pushups they could do in one minute.  The students would record their results and announced the winners for each category in a morning assembly.  We ran this activity for an afternoon at our school.