Put your teamwork to the test

Before you begin

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers.

Playing a game or completing an activity

1. Gather everyone together.
2. Run a short game, task or activity that may encourage people to preserve, never give up, have to try again or need to work well as a team.
3. Some activity ideas for teamwork include:

• Mission lightyear
• In and around a circle
• Gridlocked people
• Escape the jail
• Flapping fish
• Chair football
• Get your head in the game
• To me, to you
• Crossing the Giant's Causeway
• Raya's teamwork task
• Nought and crosses relay

Reflecting on the activity

1. After completing the game, task or activity, gather the group together.
2. Everyone should split into pairs or small teams. If you did the game, task or activity in small groups, people can get back into the same group.
3. Remind everyone of the aim of the team game, task or activity they’ve just finished.
4. Tell everyone you're going to use a 3, 2, 1 method to reflect on your teamwork in the game, task or activity.
5. Each group should think about:

• 3 different ways they worked together to achieve the aim
• 2 of the best things they did during activity
• 1 thing they tried that didn’t work to achieve the aim

Sharing the ideas

1. Everyone should share their ideas within their pair or group.
2. To finish, everyone should gather together as a large group.
3. Ask who's happy and comfortable to share some of their 3, 2, 1 reflections they were chatting about, but no-one should be made to speak if they don't want to.