Middle School :: Team Building

All middle school students participate in team-building and leadership training activities. The students work in a variety of team configurations to solve problems, meet challenges, and plan activities and projects. Chapel time is utilized to provide the time for this process to occur. Sometimes the students work together within their grade levels, sometimes in cross-grade level teams, and other times in single gender teams. The purpose of this is to teach cooperation, consensus building, organization, planning and follow-through skills. The students learn by doing! This process begins the first day of school, continues through the Fall Retreat, and finishes with a Team Challenge Day in the spring. The students acquire and practice developmentally appropriate social and leadership skills. Eighth graders hold Team Leader positions and comprise the MS Leadership Council.