Winter/Snow Day Reflection

Snow day took place on the 8th of February. Some things went well and some didn't. I was responsible for the obstacle course alongside with Stefan and Shaun. Until lunch we had classes of different sizes attempting our obstacle course and their times were recorded and the winners announced. They enjoyed it and that meant that our aim was met. During lunch students tried the course several other times for fun and because they wanted to improve their times. Then we repaired the course and after lunchtime we had a large amount of students at the spot and coordinating them was extremely difficult. Eventually it became impossible to coordinate everyone and we decided to conduct a relay race. It was okay until there was an injury and students were sent to classes. The main flaw was in the planning. We could not anticipate all of the possible difficulties that we would face and unfortunately not much help was offered with the planning, so really, it was an event, which was completely organised by year 13.  At times we had to improvise, but improvisation does not always work. Also, the lead time (inbetween time) between events was not taken into account, students did not come to events on time because they had to change and if we could redo the winter day, this would be where we would concentrate our attention. However I consider this a fairly good attempt. We conducted the Snow day, we entertained the school and showed the students several interesting winter sport activities, such as hockey, rugby in snow, football in snow, snow painting and several otheres. We came up with creative ideas together, such as providing hot chocolate. We worked as a team and this is what made the day go relatively well. I have gained a huge amount of experience and I understood that it is extremely hard to make everything go perfect when conducting such an event.