Team Building 15th November

Our Saturday Session concentrated on Team Building. Our intention is to develop 7 teams that will train and compete in a Round Robin. We intend to also identify our strongest players and form 2 teams that will compete against other clubs. As Administration, we have decided to allow the girls to make as many decisions concerning how the programme will run by themselves, to only offer advice and guidance where necessary. We thus asked the girls how they wanted the teams to be formulated giving them the following options:

-Teams based on age.
-Teams based on location.

The girls discussed it among themselves and came back with the option of forming teams based on wards (location), the reason being that it would be easier to meet, coordinate and arrange group training/ fitness sessions.

We spoke broadly about teamwork, and why it is an important social skill to be able to work well within a team. Our discussion progressed to include notes on leadership- we discussed what qualities we would look for in a leader, what functions the team leader would be responsible for and the process of selecting team leaders {Captains.}

I feel it important to note that while our programme focuses on providing disadvantaged children with the opportunity to play in a safe environment. We are also responsible for developing life skills and teaching the girls social awareness, we felt, bearing this in mind, that our team captains would not necessarily be selected from the best players, but that the girls should elect and vote for their team captains . It was decided that the girls would put forward names and that votes would be cast in next weeks Saturday Session.