Prefects at Charterhouse Preparatory School recently attended a leadership camp at Camp Konka in Magaliesburg.
Charterhouse Preparatory School Grade 7 pupil George Chavaranis said that they attended the camp to improve their leadership skills, bond together and have fun. The leadership camp also gave them the opportunity to know each other on a new level opposed to knowing each other at school.
“The camp was overseen by heads of the Grade 7 class Riaan Haasbroek and Lynn Davis. We did a variety of activities to help us improve our trust, communication and solving problems as a team. Structure was an exercise where we had to hold each other up, in the Spiders web we had to help each other through a series of ropes without touching them and Communication was an activity in which all prefects had to work together pulling ropes in order to get a ball in a bucket,” explained Chavaranis.
He added that on the day of departure, all the prefects had to prepare a presentation on what their strengths and weaknesses were. The teachers and facilitators were very impressed with everyone’s presentations.
Zoe Da Silva said initially she did not trust her classmates to lift her up during one of the activities, but now she has a new found trust in them.
Prefect Natalie Castanheira said that overall the leadership camp was a great experience. “We got to have fun and bond on a different level, enjoyed it immensely as I learned how to be a better leader and an overall better person,” said Castanheira.
“With every activity we had to remember that there is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs and that there is not always an easy way out. Despite all the difficulties that we faced,we made it through the weekend of learning, making traditions and being our true selves not only as serious students that work hard and study,” concluded Chavaranis.
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