Character Education
and Leadership

Teaching students about leadership and responsibility is a fundamental precept of good citizenship. We spend 2½ days in this special program building trust, developing effective communication skills and promoting respect through a series of creative activities. Examples include a series of challenging initiative tasks in which students must strategize in order to solve problems. Our climbing wall and high ropes course teach students about commitment, support and the nature of challenge. During this leadership experience, students discover what kind of personal attributes are important in fostering a close knit and trusting team.

Climbing Wall and High Ropes

Strive to do your best while learning to support others. In this adventure program using a series of high cables and a 32 foot climbing wall, students become aware of the nature of trust, how to give effective support and how to honour and respect the efforts of each team member. Students also become aware of “edgework”, how personal striving and challenge makes us more effective members of a team.

Best suited for Grades 7 & up

Initiative Tasks

Initiative Tasks are a series of creative problems which the group, as a team, must solve. They become more difficult as the program progresses. Tasks may involve walking on land skis, 6 students at a time, or moving a marble through fitted PCVS tubing from one location to another (the tubes fit together only in a certain way). These tasks demand strategic thinking, effective communication, leadership and most importantly, co-operation.

Conflict Resolution:

What is the value of conflict? Conflict makes us more aware of problems that need to be solved. Conflict encourages change, sharpens leadership skills and is an inevitable part of relationships with others. Because of this, it becomes important for students to learn the skills involved in handling conflict constructively. During this program, students will engage in simulations, role-playing and activities that present conflicting view points. Students learn to negotiate, to listen and understand, to mediate and gain several techniques which assist them in dealing with and overcoming conflict.

Have you learned the Ropes?

“Tying up loose ends with knots that will serve you for a life time.”

This practical and fun program, using games, rope activities and knot tying, teaches students stages of effective communication and critical thinking skills.