The Sixth-Form TeamTalk Challenge

Sixth Form students need in-person communication and collaborative skills to excel in their next steps in life.

Our TeamTalk Challenge days help prepare them for challenges they’ll face beyond the classroom.

Students will work in teams on intellectually-stretching activities that develop their:

  • critical thinking

  • persuasive communication

  • creativity

What’s involved?

Enhance their persuasive communication

…through activities like Argumentag Wrestling - our unique, fast-paced debating game that gets students thinking on their feet.

Help them see the value of spontaneity and risk-taking in arguing a case in a friendly and playful format.

Key skills:

  • Responsiveness

  • Logic

  • Justification

Develop their critical thinking

The Ethics Committee workshop helps them seek truth through enquiry.

Work in teams to think criticially about moral dilemmas ranging from public policy, to personal freedom, to science and technology.

Key skills:

  • Reasoning

  • Questioning

  • Evaluation

Nurture their creativity

If creativity is the mother of invention, what’s the mother of creativity? We’d argue it’s a non-threatening atmosphere.

Speculate to Accumulate creates a supportive environment where all ideas are welcome, as students must approach puzzles from a range of angles and formulate creative solutions.

Key skills:

  • Risk-taking

  • Lateral thinking

  • Imagination

“I just wanted to say a huge thank you for your sessions with our Year 12s earlier this week. It was exactly what we were looking for…

…in terms of building critical thinking and debating skills, and getting them to think on the spot.  It was fascinating to see who rose to the challenge and equally who found it quite difficult.

 In particular, those of our students who will face interviews for competitive Uni courses / degree apprenticeships will have found it beneficial in terms of having to justify their reasoning and respond to counter-arguments.

As far as I know, we are looking to re-book next year.

Katy Powis-Holt, Head of Year 12, Eltham College

The opening activities were fantastic ice-breakers, helping everyone work together in a fun and active way. A real, and perhaps unexpected, triumph of the day was how successful the debating and ethics activities were; it was really rewarding to see how many pupils genuinely enjoyed and actively engaged in activities that were completely new to them. As a result, we saw a significant leap in developing higher level thinking skills, confidence and collaborative working.

Mercedes Davis, Head of Sixth Form, Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar School

What do we do?

What we do

Listen to your aims and goals for your day(s)

Put together a proposal for you to review

Make changes based on your feedback

Select staff from our trusted team to run your activities

Do a “site visit” to your school in advance, at a time convenient to you

Liaise with your site staff about setting up

Arrive the day before to set up our equipment

Give all SEN/medical information to our staff (and destroy it afterwards)

Deliver all activities on the day

Provide prizes and rewards

Leave your school site looking exactly as it did

Give you a set of activities and resources for your own CPD

All you need to do

Tell us about your aims for your day

Review and tell us what you think of our proposal

Send us the student team lists, with any medical/SEN info

Arrange the timetable for teaching staff (they just need to be on hand for pastoral issues)

Sit back and drink tea under our Teachers’ Tent.

FAQs

  • Usually, yes. We understand that one of the largest costs for an offsite school experience is the transport needed to get there.

    Therefore, we transform your school and its facilities into your very own outdoor learning environment.

  • Summer bookings: where possible everything will happen outdoors if the space at your school allows. We may ask to reserve an indoor space for inclement weather .

    Autumn and Spring: whilst we will aim to facilitate as many activities as possible outside it is likely that we will look to use a school hall/ gym or classroom for some of our thinking and problem-solving sessions.

  • We would love to welcome as many school staff as possible to the day to support the students and get involved in some of the activities. However, we understand that releasing staff from their busy teaching timetables is difficult. Our facilitators will run all sessions, so we will just need some school staff on hand to support on more pastoral matters and supervise during any breaks.

  • These days are predominantly delivered in the south and east of England. If your school is further afield then please do continue to get in touch and we look into it further

Interested in this day?

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01245 830123

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