Wellbeing: The importance of teamwork
Today’s learning is about the importance and benefits of teamwork. We use teamwork in so many aspects of our lives and when we can’t work in our teams of class, year groups and our school team at the moment it is important to remind ourselves for when we can be these teams again.
Learn
Teamwork with the Super Movers Crew
The Super Movers Crew, Floss, Spark and LC have the lowdown on what makes a great team.
Get your child up and moving while learning.
Teamwork in practice
This video clip helps explain what teamwork is.
Six young children are learning the skills needed to work as a team on a search and rescue challenge.
The children work out between them the skills they could bring to team-working.
After the challenge is explained, the children plan the jobs they might do.
They recognise a leader is necessary if the team is to work successfully.
After the clip has played discuss with your child what they think the important parts of a team are.
A group of children take up a challenge
Being a successful team
In this clip, the six volunteers continue to learn the skills needed to work as a team on a search and rescue challenge.
The children discover frustrations that can build and create problems within the team.
One of the problems the children identify is everyone has their own ideas of how to do things, and they all want their way to work – which causes arguments.
At the end of this clip, discuss with your child what they have learned about how to work as a team.
The children get frustrated with how the challenge is going
Practise
Now you’ve watched how a team can work together, can you think about how you feel you would fit into a team?
Activity
I am an amazing person
In this activity, think about what your strengths are and how you could apply that to working as a team.
Finishing the sentence starters in the balloons will help you visualise the talents you have and how others would value you.
After you have completed the activity, discuss with your parent your reasons for your choice and how you think you could apply your skills to a particular scenario – for example, how would you work as a team to organise a party?
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