Planning

** __How the Day was Conceptualised__ ** For a day such as the Healthy Activity day we have just conducted at Rushworth P-12 College, many hours of planning and preparation from all team members were required to make the day become reality. We were swamped when given the enormous task of running an entire day for two year levels. We all had to sit down together quite regularly to discuss and decide how the day was going to run.

Initially we had to come up with a general idea of what activities we might run and how the day might operate. We brainstormed as a team to come up with many activities such as boxing, ultimate Frisbee and pilates, as well as some recipes we could cook up with the kids. The general idea then slowly came together in the form of a proposal which would be given to the school to give them a specific plan of what we intend to do with their students to educate them.

On top of the general task of deciding what and how we were going to run the actual day, each team member had specific tasks to do, and all of these tasks required interaction with other team members to get these tasks completed. This involved things like the Evaluations manager liaising with the strategic planning manager on how we would assess and evaluate the students prior and post knowledge, as well as our general conception of how the day went. The events manager was required to discuss with everyone exactly how the day would run and what would happen if it turned out to be a wet day or if someone were to be ill on the day. The policies manager would have to ensure that everyone in our team is adhering to the schools current policies such as wearing hats outside or the procedures if someone is to be injured. The Environment and Ethos manager would have to take specific care in ensuring that we are teaching in a safe and supportive environment for the students. The curriculum manager would have to collect and analyze lesson plans off everyone for their lessons and make links to VELS to give our lessons credibility. Our team leader was required to stay on top of everything and ensure that everyone is pulling their weight. And our communications manager was required to keep in contact with everyone and put together the team’s wiki page. All these jobs had to be completed on top of the actual running of the day.

When the Healthy Activity Day came along it ran quite smoothly, this was probably because we had out so much planning and preparation into the day before it came along, that we all knew exactly what we were doing and if we were to have any problems there was always someone in the team with the answers. Our communications manager had created a clear and easy to read timetable which everyone had a copy of so everyone in the team knew exactly what they were doing and exactly where the kids were going at all times.

In conclusion we have all learnt quite a lot from the experience, and as we look back at all the planning and preparation we put into the activity day we can see that it was all required to make the day run smoothly. Giving everyone specific jobs and responsibilities was an excellent way to ensure that all bases are covered and everything is taken into consideration. 